DLB round 4: Fight!
Jun. 20th, 2022 08:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickThere was no DLB round 4. I started walking him around the ring for warmup and she asked to see circles right and left. She said Bird looked "sore" but without any defined lameness. *sigh* All right.
He wasn't lame at that time. He might have been sore. (Doesn't matter if he was or was not, once DLB decides a thing, there is no point in trying to convince her otherwise.) She said his hinds looked "stabby" and he was carrying his tail funny.
It was frustrating to hear -- this was our last opportunity to do stuff for the summer -- but it's not like arguing would have done squat besides convince DLB that I hate the horse and want to be mean and unfair to him.
The season is over because I won't have a truck/trailer for the rest of the summer. Trysta is borrowing the truck (the trailer is hers) to do Agricultural Drone Spraying Of Magical Fertilizer (this is a real thing) on assorted crops between now and the end of August or possibly September, I'm a little fuzzy on the timeframe.
Trys had originally planned to use her asshole father-in-law's truck but while he AGREED to that in the planning stages of her Agricultural Drone project, once she'd passed the written exam and the flight test and gotten the FAA license and PURCHASED a $30K drone, when it came time to actually hook up the three horse slant, strap the drone and tanks of liquid fertilizer aboard, and head down the road to GO DO AG DRONE SPRAYING, he was like "Well, you see, I have very important things to do and I need the truck and ..." So instead of her asshole F-I-L's truck as originally planned, she's using my 2002 F-250 diesel.
She has been SHOPPING for a truck, but the used market is pretty steep and after dropping 30K on a flipping drone, she doesn't have the $$$ for a solid used truck. In fact, she can't even buy one like I have for more-than-I-paid-for-it-seven-years-ago. *sigh*
So anyway, I have no truck and no trailer until Ag Drone Season concludes. DLB Round 4 was it for the entire flipping season, and there was no DLB Round 4 and I am (understandably, I think) disappointed about this.
I sometimes feel that there is no pleasing DLB and that no matter what I do, it is not enough. However, I do not think that it would be BETTER to ride for someone with no regard for horse welfare. Probably the person with some regard for the horse's well-being is the better instructor/clinician.
At the same time, though, DLB watches my instructor ride old chestnut mare who is a bit off on left hind for the first twenty minutes of riding and then "works out of it" to where left hind just takes a slightly shorter step than right hind for the rest of the ride. And that's OK. (It's every time, every ride. Old chestnut mare has arthritis in the left hind. Injections help some but it's still A Thing.) But Bird looking "sore" in some fuzzy wuzzy manner is not OK. If some horses are allowed to play hurt and other horses are not allowed to play hurt while being VISIBLY LESS HURT THAN THE FIRST GROUP OF HORSES then I feel like there's a... variable standard going on.
I put Bird in a stall while I turned the trailer around. (I don't back trailers all that well and it's easier on him to be in a stall until we're ready to go down the road instead of being stuck in the trailer for back, forth, back, forth, cut, back, forth, cut wheels bullshit.) While he was unattended in the stall and I was backing up the horse trailer, DLB went down and prodded at him without my knowledge or consent.
Uhm, DLB, he isn't your horse. She issued judgment that he was not fit to ride due to looking sore in some overall assessment that she could not pin down with any more exactitude than that. He was not visibly lame at the trot in either direction on a twenty meter circle but I still complied without argument. I really wish DLB would not go be fondling my unattended horse without my permission. He was NOT HER BUSINESS at that point.
When I went down to fetch Bird out of the stall and throw him on the trailer, DLB was all "I looked over your horse and he doesn't seem to be sore anywhere IN PARTICULAR. Maybe he's lame in his shoulders? (Horses generally are not lame in the shoulders.) He's very fit and looks great. His back is VERY STRONG, SO MUSCULAR." To which I replied, "It's good to hear that you think he looks great, but apparently I still can't ride him, so... yeah."
This was not my most-mature moment. *sigh*
Anyway, he got a week off, went for a sedate walking-only trail ride ponying Ceres with Mordecai (during which he seemed fine) exactly seven days later, and is getting another week off because I have to go play Celebration of Life in Washington State with my mother for her dead sister.
He wasn't lame at that time. He might have been sore. (Doesn't matter if he was or was not, once DLB decides a thing, there is no point in trying to convince her otherwise.) She said his hinds looked "stabby" and he was carrying his tail funny.
It was frustrating to hear -- this was our last opportunity to do stuff for the summer -- but it's not like arguing would have done squat besides convince DLB that I hate the horse and want to be mean and unfair to him.
The season is over because I won't have a truck/trailer for the rest of the summer. Trysta is borrowing the truck (the trailer is hers) to do Agricultural Drone Spraying Of Magical Fertilizer (this is a real thing) on assorted crops between now and the end of August or possibly September, I'm a little fuzzy on the timeframe.
Trys had originally planned to use her asshole father-in-law's truck but while he AGREED to that in the planning stages of her Agricultural Drone project, once she'd passed the written exam and the flight test and gotten the FAA license and PURCHASED a $30K drone, when it came time to actually hook up the three horse slant, strap the drone and tanks of liquid fertilizer aboard, and head down the road to GO DO AG DRONE SPRAYING, he was like "Well, you see, I have very important things to do and I need the truck and ..." So instead of her asshole F-I-L's truck as originally planned, she's using my 2002 F-250 diesel.
She has been SHOPPING for a truck, but the used market is pretty steep and after dropping 30K on a flipping drone, she doesn't have the $$$ for a solid used truck. In fact, she can't even buy one like I have for more-than-I-paid-for-it-seven-years-ago. *sigh*
So anyway, I have no truck and no trailer until Ag Drone Season concludes. DLB Round 4 was it for the entire flipping season, and there was no DLB Round 4 and I am (understandably, I think) disappointed about this.
I sometimes feel that there is no pleasing DLB and that no matter what I do, it is not enough. However, I do not think that it would be BETTER to ride for someone with no regard for horse welfare. Probably the person with some regard for the horse's well-being is the better instructor/clinician.
At the same time, though, DLB watches my instructor ride old chestnut mare who is a bit off on left hind for the first twenty minutes of riding and then "works out of it" to where left hind just takes a slightly shorter step than right hind for the rest of the ride. And that's OK. (It's every time, every ride. Old chestnut mare has arthritis in the left hind. Injections help some but it's still A Thing.) But Bird looking "sore" in some fuzzy wuzzy manner is not OK. If some horses are allowed to play hurt and other horses are not allowed to play hurt while being VISIBLY LESS HURT THAN THE FIRST GROUP OF HORSES then I feel like there's a... variable standard going on.
I put Bird in a stall while I turned the trailer around. (I don't back trailers all that well and it's easier on him to be in a stall until we're ready to go down the road instead of being stuck in the trailer for back, forth, back, forth, cut, back, forth, cut wheels bullshit.) While he was unattended in the stall and I was backing up the horse trailer, DLB went down and prodded at him without my knowledge or consent.
Uhm, DLB, he isn't your horse. She issued judgment that he was not fit to ride due to looking sore in some overall assessment that she could not pin down with any more exactitude than that. He was not visibly lame at the trot in either direction on a twenty meter circle but I still complied without argument. I really wish DLB would not go be fondling my unattended horse without my permission. He was NOT HER BUSINESS at that point.
When I went down to fetch Bird out of the stall and throw him on the trailer, DLB was all "I looked over your horse and he doesn't seem to be sore anywhere IN PARTICULAR. Maybe he's lame in his shoulders? (Horses generally are not lame in the shoulders.) He's very fit and looks great. His back is VERY STRONG, SO MUSCULAR." To which I replied, "It's good to hear that you think he looks great, but apparently I still can't ride him, so... yeah."
This was not my most-mature moment. *sigh*
Anyway, he got a week off, went for a sedate walking-only trail ride ponying Ceres with Mordecai (during which he seemed fine) exactly seven days later, and is getting another week off because I have to go play Celebration of Life in Washington State with my mother for her dead sister.
