Current mood:

Catty

I Gave Her My Ring (and then she asked for another carrot)
Oh, man.

Wedding Photos for Horsey!Wife

My SO said that I spend so much time working outside with the horses I should marry her.. so I did... matching rings, a little ceremony and all. I couldnt resist.

Comments range from: How can I, too, get an appropriate ring for my lover to Please stop being an asshat

People quote the Terms and Conditions of the site (stop being a hata!), argue that it's not hurting anyone (with special argument over affect -vs- effect, express how offended they are, and argue about OMG censorship.

There's more, but my head hurts.

I'm gonna go make a salad now. With carrots. Lots of carrots.

ETA: She totally meant it!
I think all things considered such a commitment is a human ceremony and I would wager she was indiffrent but she stood there and rested her head on my knee. I would like to think she knew it was something special or atleast did it for me. I laugh when I look at the state of the world... we probibly take our marrage more serously than most people do looking at statistics anyway.

But I think what is important to her is when I share my coffee with her in the mornings, when I hug her after I get home every day without fail, the times she has slept with her head on my chest, when I canceled all my appointments and sat up all day with her because she had a sore hoof. The first time she broke into the house when I was sick and she stood by the bed, when she seeks me out when I am upset because she just knows and gives me a shoulder to cry on, me knowing just where that one itchy spot is she cant reach. In the end these are things that have meaning. If things like this dont make a relationship I dont know what does.

Its a long story but in many ways she saved my life just as I did hers in the begining I wouldnt know what to do without her

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	nekoneko 2007-03-13 11:18 pm UTC (link)
	But I think what is important to her is when I share my coffee with her in the mornings I know absolutely nothing about the care of horses, but isn't that a bad thing for animals in general? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	tangentialone 2007-03-13 11:21 pm UTC (link)
	I would have thought so... I'm pretty sure caffeine's bad for cats and dogs, but that could be because they're so much smaller so a smaller dose has more of an effect on them. IANA vet, though. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	jira 2007-03-13 11:25 pm UTC (link)
	Well, this is completely uninformed, but I mean, we're mammals as well, and we drink coffee. I do know of some people who have poured coffee over their horses grain and the horse nibbled it. So I agree with the idea that it's because they are smaller. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tangentialone 2007-03-13 11:31 pm UTC (link)
	Well, this seems to indicate that it's definitely size-related. So I guess a horse could probably drink a cup of coffee and be okay. The site's focused on small animals, though. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	rachelmap 2007-03-14 08:01 am UTC (link)
	I wonder if it'd be legal to do that to a racehorse. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	jira 2007-03-14 05:58 pm UTC (link)
	Well, considering than an average racehorse will be around 1,400, give or take some, and the average human is a lot smaller than that, I don't know how much coffee you'd need to soak. I suppose you could try to crack open about two dozen caffeine pills and pour the stuff on the food, but I don't know how that would work either. (Reply to this)(Parent)

ravenscanary
2007-03-14 02:53 am UTC (link)

It's not going to hurt them. My horse has chugged an entire bottle of cola (he picked it in his teeth and tossed his head back, I shit you not) and my friend's horse drank a gallon of iced tea once. It's pretty normal for me in the summer to take a sip of my soda, pour some in my palm for the horse, take a sip, pour some out, etc.

Then again, my horse was also fed a cigarette by a well-meaning "old timer" in the interest of "killin' them worms" and seemed fine so my horse might just be a freak.

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	tephra 2007-03-14 03:29 am UTC (link)
	I had a horse that stole cigars out of the farrier's pocket all the time. She got along well with the pony that stole hot dogs from kids petting the other ponies. That pony was in cahoots with the one that liked Twinkies. And the cigar stealer would attempt pocket diving for menthol cough drops. I'm convinced all horses are freaks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	aerobot 2007-03-15 10:37 am UTC (link)
	Okay, this is hilarious. A gang of ponies mugging humans for food is absolute win. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	zorro 2007-03-14 11:32 am UTC (link)
	We had one who did that with beer. XDDD (Reply to this)(Parent)

	jerry_ds_girl 2007-03-16 04:18 am UTC (link)
	The Amish feed their horses chewing tobacco to kill worms all the time. Judging from how poorly a lot of the Amish buggy horses in this area look, I don't think it works. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	seeshellirun 2007-03-14 04:36 pm UTC (link)
	I dunno, he's having sex with her - something tells me he isn't really looking out for the horse's best interest in general. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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