A little peeved

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion on this and that but some horse people just baffle me. A lot of horse people that I have met in my life are stuffy people. They are so set in their ways or they make the big bucks showing their horses that you are beneath them and they have no time to interact with the likes of you. I've also noticed that a lot of these people only look at their horses as a business to earn them money. They have no emotional attachment to their horses. To them the horses are just a piece of property, like a car. Once the horse gets them where they need to be over the years and the horse wears out, these people throw them away. They don't care where they go or what happens to them. I don't understand how you can look and interact with these majestic creatures and still have that sort of mentality...

What started this rant:

I was out on google searching for other horse/mustang blogs and came across one website that was griping about people selling their horses on craigslist. She was complaining about an ad that was selling a grey 6 year old BLM mustang stallion for $1295. She said: "...who is stupid enough to pay $1295 for dogmeat that's still walking? It's much cheaper already in the can." This is a blogger who has a horse (or more) of her own. She looks at them like dogmeat? Then why does she have them? Or maybe it is just the over populated pesky mustangs that she looks at like dogmeat? Or maybe it's just the "fugly" horses (as she stated in the same post about another craigslist ad). In either case I think it is a crude remark and it ticked me off.

All I can say now is thank goodness for the nice caring horse people out there. The ones that rescue and take in these "unwanted" throw away horses and give them a loving home. The ones that take first time horse owners under their wings and teach them every thing that they know about having a horse. These same people that share their horse stories and experiences and love to hear about yours. The ones that know that a good horse can not be judged by what it looks like or what the breed is. That each horse has their own personality and when taught right their horse can become a partner.