Just curious -- thoughts about riding horses

Sorry if that is too many pics, guys, but I'm VERY proud of my babies!!!

 

LOL, dear that horse is 16.2h tall and weighs almost 1400lbs. He is definately large enough to carry an overweight rider!

Horses can quite comfortably carry 20% of their weight.

Ever hear of an event called cutting? Cutting is a highly athletic event. The horses bred to do this are around 14h high and generally weigh about 900lbs, sometimes a touch less. Their riders are usually men, weighting 180-220lbs.

Horses are very strong animals. My horse is seen by a chiropracter every 6 months and a massage therapist every month and if I was hurting my horse, I am quite sure they would notice it in when they work on his back!

Yep, that's right, my abused horses have their own chiro and masseuse. (Most horses used for seriously athletic competitions have need of such services to prevent soreness.)

Based on your rudeness and your obvious need to make fun of someone's physical characteristic's, I'm going to assume you are 100% physically perfect with no undesirable physical traits.

Really, making fun of people's appearance is pretty low and often indicative of poor self esteem issues. If you want to attack someone, attack something that matters like their intelligence or their personality traits. Oh wait, those are thing that MATURE people care about, that mature people realize are more important than looks, so you probably wouldn't understand.

 

Beautiful horses!

 

Thank you Wond'ring! They are my pride and joy (and the reason that I'm broke all the time, but hey, they're worth it!)

I love them with all my heart and it makes me flat out angry to hear someone accuse me of abusing my babies.

 

Insanejester..that was a shallow asshole comment. Your not exactly all that hot yourself.


Peculiar girl, you are very beautiful and curvy. Isnt it lame how someone is judged by their appearence, and because they do not fit into the 12 year old starved model body type?

 

*thwaps Insanejestor on his girly head*

You look gorgeous and your horses are stunning. *squee* I love paint horses!

 

Thanks Cynical!

We have unfortunately had poor luck with one of our paints. The black and white, medicine hat marked, paint is going to have to have an eye removed. He ended up with a sqamous cell carcinoma cancer from years of sun exposure before we bought him. We always kept a UV mask over his eyes, but it was too little too late....

 

Absolutely Cosmic! Notice the man in question is only 19. Hopefully he'll grow out of being an ass-hat.

And as my pictures show, I have fluctuated from thin-thin to very heavy and everywhere in between.

I guess people who have always been thin don't understand how hard it is for some people to maintain their weight.

I've always been a regular exerciser, but if I eat like a NORMAL person I gain tons of weight. By that, I mean anything over about 1500cal a day. Right now I'm on a 1200cal a day diet and actually losing again, but it sucks having to do something so extreme!