Cribbing

I don't believe I posted about this here yet, so let me get it down. When previous owner told me this horse cribs, I was less than thrilled. I don't have my own property and cribbers are lousy tenants.

When I was in his stall at her place, I saw that while there was damage to it, it wasn't that bad- especially if she'd had him 2 months and "just" got him the muzzle.

Bobbi and I were both thinking it, took us a bit to dare to bring it up, because it's just insane to market a non-cribber as a cribber- especially when you really want a horse gone. Lies about cribbers pretty much universally go the other way.

The first couple days I had him, he was out on pasture, so we couldn't really know. But since Wednesday, he's been in a stall as much as he's been out. Nothing. I'm totally comfortable saying this now- Louvin isn't a cribber. And though behaviors can change when a horse is brought into a new environment, I'm 99.9 percent sure that's not the case.

IMO, he was chewing up her stall because she wasn't feeding him. Not ever taking him out might have played a role too.

This ticks me off, it just makes me see red, almost more so than any other aspect of this whole thing. She fed him so little that he took to eating the wood of his stall and she saw muzzling him (with a muzzle that destroyed his face) as the solution to that. And she had the nerve to tell me multiple times that she paid $40 for the dang thing, like I'd be impressed with how much she invested in the horse. Aaargh! Why couldn't she have spent that money on some dang hay?!

Ok, breathe.

I'm very happy he isn't a cribber and that's all that really matters now.

In other news, my beet pulp finally came in. Gave him a bit with his dinner, in a separate bucket, to get his opinion on it. He's proved to be a little picky (passed on the peppermints I tried to give him and looked at me like I was insane when I offered him a bite of watermelon), but he gobbled it all up.

He was a little dehyrated tonight- nothing huge, but his skin was a little slow to unpinch. Linda hooked me/him up with some electrolites, and all was well by the time I left to come home.

It makes me so happy whenever someone hops in to help Louvin out like that, it's so cool how so many folks care about him now. We got some dac bloom from Dana yesterday, another buddy from HC is sending us a better (darker) fly mask, and quite a few other folks have offered various things. And of course, Bobbi continues to rock my socks, what with her giving me her horse's stall and helping me with meds and everything else.

That sounds like a good note to end on, so I'm off to bed.

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