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  1. Shes My Style

    Dogs...what to do

    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...
  2. Shes My Style

    How much land do I really need?

    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...
  3. Shes My Style

    National Drive

    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!
  4. Shes My Style

    Electric fence

    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...
  5. Shes My Style

    Dealing with Dogs

    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...
  6. Shes My Style

    Dealing with Dogs

    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...
  7. Shes My Style

    3 ponies

    Lovely ponies!
  8. Shes My Style

    Dealing with Dogs

    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!
  9. Shes My Style

    Dealing with Dogs

    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...
  10. Shes My Style

    Dealing with Dogs

    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...
  11. Shes My Style

    Dealing with Dogs

    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...
  12. Shes My Style

    Tack Color Poll

    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!
  13. Shes My Style

    Ground Driving

    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...
  14. Shes My Style

    Ground Driving

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

    I did it -- I helped bad feet

    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...
  16. Shes My Style

    Feeding minis

    Seems like you are between a rock and a hard place with these two little ones. Good luck with whatever route you can go with these two as it may come down to which ever you can convince your neighbor to follow since they are his horses and he has to make the ultimate decision. I just hope they...
  17. Shes My Style

    Round Bales

    Hmmm...I use round bales for my large horses, but never thought about using round bales for the minis. I can't help but worry that they wouldn't get through the bale fast enough and it would all go bad and be a lot of wasted hay. With 3-4 large horses my bales last 1-2 weeks depending on the...
  18. Shes My Style

    Advice for restarting a horse?

    Personally I would start from the beginning (lunging, ground driving, etc) just to ensure there were no holes in her training and she remembers it all.
  19. Shes My Style

    Feeding minis

    Your going to get many differenting opnions because there is no "one" right way to do it. Personally I have mine on a "dry" lot most of the day. There is some grass in there but its not a lot, but it gives them something to nibble on through the day. I also have a nicer small lot that is...
  20. Shes My Style

    Minis braking on hills

    I'm finding this discussion very interesting since I'm working on getting my minis trained to cart and we have several hills around here as well. I just have a easy-entry cart and no brake either. I'm curious as to what some may consider too steep for a mini to handle?
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