Current mood:	uncomfortable
Entry tags:	flounce, horses

Save a horse, whack a cowboy
Oh, ponies. Like so many girls who grew up in the city, I think ponies are ace. They can do anything and are awesome and some of them even talk in your head and make you all emo & special. I <3 (imaginary) ponies, for they are perfect.

As with all things awesome and squee worthy, there is a Live Journal community for squeeing! Over ponies! (But not imaginary ponies, real ponies, so these ponies do not give you magical Mary Sue powers, woe, so the community is actually more like "Let's talk about our horses and discuss things about horsemanship." I am very disappointed at the lack of "how to have sex on my emo magical pony" posts.) It's pretty-heavily female, as one would imagine, so when a Boy Pony Owner shows up, there's a bit of !!! Boy! going on.

Boy Pony Owner is Chuck McDonald, aka wildhorseblog, aka "I know everything because I am a boy, don't you know?" He first introduces himself to the comm in a wank-free post on March 18, which I am only mentioning because his inevitable [SPOILER!] FLOUNCE! occurs on March 21.[/SPOILER!]

Basically, Boy Pony Owner wants to use the comm for some self promotion of his own special way of making horses do things. I didn't follow it, but not everyone thinks that Boy Pony Owner's ideas are all that magical, interesting or new. So, when someone comes along, having trouble with her horse's loading and asks for advice, there isn't a squeeing acceptance of the awesomeness of everything Boy Pony Owner suggests.

Boy Pony Owner cannot sort out why folks might not be jumping on the Boy Pony Owner Is Awesome Bandwagon, so buymeaclue responds by very patiently, with reference to the rules of the comm explaining it to him.

So, of course: FLOUNCE!

If what I have to say is not appreciated, then I'll leave. In fact I think that's a good idea. I think that as a professional trainer, posting in an online forum opens me up to too much drama and it can get personal too easily. This won't help my career, so I'm going to bow out now.

Candidly, I think that part of the reason I'm getting resentment here is because I'm young and male. Some of you ladies don't want to hear advice from a man, particularly one who suggests you might have done something wrong. Even though, I haven't gone after anyone personally. I've only spoken out against stud chains, etc from my own personal experience and I stand by that.

Everything I've posted in this community has been done with unimpeachable class, courtesy and professionalism. If I'm going to catch hell because I'm presenting myself as knowledgeable, then I bid you all good day. At the end of the day, your opinions of me don't really matter anyway because when it comes to horses I get results. Particularly since none of ya'll are actually paying me.

I think Boy Pony Owner could have done better on the dismount, myself, but then, I think ponies should be silver with blue eyes and special angst-adding abilities.

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	kookaburra 2009-03-24 02:05 am UTC (link)
	So very, very true. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	napalmnacey 2009-03-24 06:06 am UTC (link)
	Oh man, the indoor/outdoor fights I've seen. Absolutely heinous. I even took part in them. Though I frustrated people because I was half-half. Bring cat in at night, dusk and dawn but let it have a run during the midday hours. I am the Devil's Avocado. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kookaburra 2009-03-24 06:23 am UTC (link)
	And like horse training wank, it's all a matter of what works for certain people's situations. GOD FORBID SOMEONE KEEP THEIR CAT DIFFERENTLY THAN MEEEEEEEEEE...! (Reply to this)(Parent)

chibikaijuu
2009-04-06 07:23 pm UTC (link)

Don't you live in Australia? Haven't cats done terrible things to the native bird populations over there?

(For the record, I'm not totally against indoor-outdoor cats, but I don't think they have some sort of need to go out. Some cats really enjoy it and some don't care (or, like most of mine, they RILLY RILLY want to go out - until they actually get out, and then they just hide under the porch, because OMG IT'S SCARY). The only one I have who goes out on a regular basis comes running back in when I call him (this is the only time he ever responds to his name, and I don't think it's even his name so much as my voice, since it doesn't matter which name I use, and he doesn't come as reliably if someone else calls for him).)

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napalmnacey
2009-04-06 07:30 pm UTC (link)

Uhm, not so much in the suburbs. And if you bring your cat up right, then they generally ignore birds. All our cats ignore the wildlife, except Rogue. Rogue is so stupid and bad at catching anything that it would be a miracle if she got her silly paws on anything more than a skink.

Cats do cause problems, and in problem areas I would be one of the first people to advocate keeping a cat inside. Most cats don't even care if they're not let outside. My cat Rogue demands to be let out for a little while during the day, and generally after an hour or so of running around in the grass, she comes back in when I call. Lenny, a big ol' puss, doesn't like to live inside. He has a territory he likes to roam, despite being snipped. But I know he doesn't eat anything but rats. He will sit quite happily next to native birds and not even look at them. But rats make him go batshit. So he's helping with the vermin problem, really.

Melma is too old and gummy to do anything but drool, purr and sleep.

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