Sunday, December 19, 2010

that thing on top of your neck is not just there for show

in open letter to person at my barn who thought this was a good idea:

dear barn people: please remember to use your heads.  when a horse has on a light weight blanket, and the high of the day is only going to be 55, and it's going to rain the rest of the week, do not take off the blanket without telling the owner.  she has decided that leaving the blanket on for the one mild weather day will be fine considering it will still be in the thirties at night and raining for the second half of the week.  when you take off the blanket without telling her, she assumes that the horse is still wearing it and does not worry about having to go out and reblanket said horse when it does start to rain.  and if you do decided to remove the blanket without permission, do not hang it over the fence in such a way that when the rain does come, the blanket becomes as soaked as the horse and is not usable.  please try to remember this.

would you want to be the reason this cute face was all cold and wet?
so if you can't tell from reading above, some one decided to be "nice" and unblanket my horse on the one mild weather day we had this week.  if anyone knows me,  you know i'm checking on the weather report like every day during winter to decided if i want my horse to have a blanket on or not.  considering the high of the day was only going to be 55, and that it was in the thirties at night and would be cooling down and raining the rest of the week, i decided to leave the blanket on my horse.  he's 21 and it's hard to keep weight on him, so a light weight water proof blanket does wonders for him in the winter to help maintain a healthy weight.  someone at my barn apparently decided that 55 was too hot to have a blanket on and took his blanket off with out asking me, and with out telling me after.  and since it's pitch black out by the time i get off work, i can really only make it to the barn on the weekends during winter.  almost everyone at the barn knows this as well.  so when it started to rain on friday, i didn't worry too much because i thought prince would be nice and snug with his blanket on.  imagine my surprise when i braved the rain to go out to the barn today, only to find the blanket slung over the fence, totally drenched.  looking over the fence at my horse, i did not see the fuzzy woolly mammoth that i was expecting, but a drowned rat.  needless to say, i was not happy about this.  

i called up dani and was fuming.  she told me that if i could get prince dry, that i could use the blanket she had in the tack room.  luckily, the round pen was dry, so letting him roll in the dry sand helped.  using the cooler on him after made him dry enough to where i felt safe blanketing him.  i was able to get the spare blanket on him just before it started raining sideways.  so to whoever thought they were being "nice," don't ever do it again.  and if you do, for fucks sake let me know when you touch my horse with out my permission so shit like this doesn't happen.

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