Quit Horsing Around: How ‘horse girls’ ruined horses

Mongolian warriors used to ride horses bareback through the plains of Siberia, firing off arrows with deadly accuracy as they clung to the sides of their mounts at full gallop. Ceremoniously painting their Pintos for the solstice hunt. Native Americans chased down two-ton bison to feed their tribe for the long winter. American adventurers crossed …
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Farmer parents hilariously find out years later that their 16-year-old secretly rode her horse to school when she was grounded from driving: ‘All we could do is shake our head’

When you are a teenager, you crave rebellion. It’s because of the myelination of neurons working on becoming an independent adult, but we won’t get into the neuroscience of it all. Everyone who has been a teenager remembers that urge. That feeling of doing whatever you want no matter what! If your parents say those …
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Wife demands rich husband buy his stepdaughter a horse instead of “leasing one-half of a horse” and expects him to pay for college education: ‘That’s not how I operate’

Some of us struggle to scrape together rent money, debate whether store-brand cereal is worth the $2 savings, and weigh the level of chicken freedom we can afford when buying eggs. And then there are people like this guy, whose life dilemmas include contemplating why his stepdaughter isn’t content with leasing half a horse. Half …
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‘This isn’t a game’: 33-year-old horse breeder sends her 19-year-old sister the £1100 vet bill after she deliberately disobeys him and endangers his prize-winning mare

There comes a time in every kid’s life where they need to start being held accountable for their actions and decisions. Usually that age is around 1st or 2nd grade, because children are learning the difference between right and wrong. So when her parents were still coddling this 19-year-old after turning the page on her …
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32 Memes For Merrily Rolling Along

The holiday weekend is over and it’s back to the grindstone of every day life. The first day back at work after a holiday is like getting on a horse. You might be a little rusty at first, and it takes some effort to hurl yourself over the saddle, but soon enough you’re trotting along …
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Little Girl Freaks Out After Being Forbidden From Riding a Pony, Mother Enables Her Bad Behavior

I have seen Gone With The Wind enough times to know that little girls riding ponies can have devastating consequences (Spoilers ahead for a movie from 1939). Imagine being Scarlett O’Hara, doing the long con of getting Rhett Butler to marry you after your first two husbands are killed in situations that were beyond your …
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The Best Animal Memes of the Week (November 4, 2023)

The worst thing about animals is that they can’t talk. I know there have been a couple of scientifically studied gorillas and dogs on TikTok who can say words, but that’s not the same thing as talking. Humans are the only species that can speak in a grammatically coherent way, and that’s a darn shame.  …
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The Best Animal Memes of the Week (October 21, 2023)

Having pets is such a weird thing to do. We literally have animals living in our home, often roaming free, and we just go about as if that’s totally normal. I know that my families domesticated golden retrievers who have never lived in the wild likely aren’t going to suddenly act like coyotes or wolves, …
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Sad Horse Gets Bullied By His Fellow Horses, Gets Rescued By a Farm With Nice Horses

I hate to see animals sad, and I’m not alone. There is an entire cinematic industry predicated on the idea that people will pay good money to watch a tragic animal become happy over 90 minutes. This trope is demonstrated in «boy and his dog movies» and «girl and her horse movies,» which have existed …
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