Recent content by Shes My Style

I fully understand your frustration. In fact I am pretty sure I have a thread somewhere around here about the same exact thing. We live on a dead-end road (so only one way to go) with no place to drive on our property. Our road is a private back road with little traffic so pretty safe for the...

Like others have pointed out - it depends on your local zoning laws, region, type of grass, how much you plan to pick the area clean, how much hay you want to feed, etc. I've found with horses - smaller are per animal actually ends up being more work because there needs to be more care in...

I wish I could make this years - even if I was just ground driving mine all around, but do already have plans to go next year. Have fun to those that are going and someone needs to share pics later!

I would not go for a charger any smaller than 5 miler or else you won't get enough zap to go through the manes if they have their head down. You are better off getting more zap than you really need then not enough. I miss when we had our 50 mile charger on 5 acres. LOVED it and never had a...

Thanks for the long post. I agree that its the owner's fault - not so much the dogs, but I still need to do what I need to do to protect my horse. I want to touch on a couple points you brought up. 1 - driving somewhere else. As I mentioned earlier, I am at the end of a dead-end road. I...

I wish it was like that around here. We don't have animal control. We have a sheriff and a dog catcher. See we went through a dog problem with the house right next door to us. They had a huge white boxer that would come and terrorize my animals (especially my ducks) and even get a bit...

Lovely ponies!

Thanks for all of the ideas so far! Thankfully I don't have to worry about the cart at this stage since we are just at the ground driving stage, but I want this taken care of before we get to that point!

Love the water gun idea! My husband was suggesting getting a air-powered bb gun as well. Someone at work here suggested paintball guns - it will sting and then when they go home looking neon green or pink the owners might get a clue. The bear spray - is that like mace? My concern with that is...

Unfortunately we do not have leash laws. We do have a dog catcher but he will only come out to get strays and the last time we had a dog issue he said in our state if a dog harasses livestock you can shoot them. Not quite the answer I was looking for. I'll try suggesting the trolley system...

I'm on a dead-end road and so can only head one way down the road. Heading out of our area we have to pass a house with 2 dogs (the house is 2 houses over from ours) and I know one further down that has 3 dogs. They are allowed to run loose. Well now that I'm trying to ground drive Scribbles...

I voted teal out of the choices, but my favorite on a bay of her color is a good deep purple. That is what my girl has!

Thanks! She has held a bit in her mouth already, but I am doing the initial training here like I do my riding horses. When I start ground driving them I also do it bit less because I want their focus on getting used to what I'm teaching them and not the new thing in their mouth. The bit gets...

This is the 2nd time ground driving with Scribbles. She is doing great! Thought I would share a couple pics.

Yes - it is very normal for a horse to really hesitate going forward the first few steps after having horrible feet. All they know is for the longest time that a step equalled pain and it takes them a few to realize that is no longer the case. Right now functionality is more important than...