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| This is meant to just be a funny lighthearted post so can we keep it that way? Anyways what's the worst (funniest) advice you've been given or the dumbest stereotypes you've heard of? For horses, dogs or any other pets.
Mine would probably be to watch out for my Border Collie pup because she's going to bite my heels (I don't understand that, all pups usually do this at some point because you're feet are moving and it looks like a fun toy, not because she's herding me)
And that yellow (palomino) horses are more stubborn and less smart than any other color... because that makes sense?!
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 Chicken Chick
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Location: Texas | I needed to crack my Dobermans skull... that way she wouldn't turn on me when she got older.
Not really a stereotype but I have had a ton of people ask me why I cut my cat's tail off, one even called me cruel. She was born that way goober.
I took in a puppy once. He was mean as snot, not playing mean... MEAN. Someone told me to knock him out with a frying pan... that would fix him. |
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| When I got my new barrel horse (14.2hh) a family member asked me when I'm gonna get a "step-up" horse, and ride a "real" horse, not a half pony. Man that made me mad, I need a step up from my 1d barrel horse?!
I've been told that if a horse tries to bite you, bite it back in the neck! Sounds like a really good idea, huh?  |
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  Witty Enough
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Location: CTX | Well, I got bit by a horse once, and before I even thought about it I grabbed an ear and bit back.... Not sure if it was because of that but he never bit me again.....  |
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Formerly Horse
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Location: TEXAS | Just constant ignorance about my pit bulls and people asking what my best barrel time ever is. Ya know with no knowlege of pattern size, ground, etc... |
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 The Worst Seller Ever
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Location: Oklahoma | Blue-eyed horses are crazy. |
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Expert
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| All futurity horses are blown up or won't stay sound after the age of 15.  |
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Location: Do I hear Banjos? | My favorite are the folks that judge my skill level etc by my attire.
I go to trail ride in:
-A helmet, western saddle and jeans = Green horse or I'm a beginner rider (neither being true)
-A helmet, endurance saddle and the stretchy pants = I must like to go FAST! So they don't want to ride with me.
Meeting a group of friends to ride I have had a guy (I didn't know) say to me " You can ride behind me if it will help you feel more safe"... He just Assumed I must be a beginner rider. I was on my national champion distance horse...but chose to use my barrel saddle and jeans that day (and helmet). Made me laugh. I did choose to follow him for a while...because of the wranglers of course.
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| I enjoy the "oh you're a mtd shooter, you must not know squat about horsemanship" when I show up to reined cow horse events.
Hmmm the stereotypical - Border Collies are too full of energy; how can you possibly manage them living in your house!?
Or the - You have sheep, you know they're all dumb, right? |
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Expert
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| and the "Double swirl!!! EEEEECK that mare is gonna be crazy!!!!" thats another really lovely one .... |
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| clover girl - 2015-05-28 12:14 PM
Blue-eyed horses are crazy.
If you can see the whites of their eyes they're crazy.... |
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Location: Texas | clover girl - 2015-05-28 12:14 PM Blue-eyed horses are crazy.
and BLIND! |
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Witty Enough
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Location: CTX | FlyingJT - 2015-05-28 12:48 PM clover girl - 2015-05-28 12:14 PM Blue-eyed horses are crazy. If you can see the whites of their eyes they're crazy....
Yup...  |
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Location: Kentucky | Breeding a mare will calm her down. |
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Location: west of East Texas | When he rears up, hit him right between the ears. :) |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | chasendacash - 2015-05-28 1:27 PM When he rears up, hit him right between the ears. :)
With an empty water bottle lol |
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Midget Lover
Location: Kentucky | barrelracr131 - 2015-05-28 2:28 PM chasendacash - 2015-05-28 1:27 PM When he rears up, hit him right between the ears. :) With an empty water bottle lol
I heard to crack an egg over their head.... they will think they are bleeding (WTF) |
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Red Bull Agressive
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Location: North Dakota | "You should see my dressage horse! She does rollkur and everything!" (That was a lady that knows nothing about dressage. She told me herself she's never had a professional lesson).
One barrel racer I know said that dressage was "useless fancy riding" when I told her that's what I did a lot of. No wonder her horses shoulder barrels, look like giraffes, and can't make a smooth run even to place in the 3D.
I also got into an argument with a coworker who tried to tell me that palominos could be yellow OR gray with a black mane and tail. That's what his dad told him and his dad knows everything.
I'm actually glad the blue eye stereotype exists. I might not have found Cash if it didn't. He has a blue eye and when I told the girl who sold him to me that I thought it was so pretty she was suprised and said she'd had some people look at him, see he has a blue eye, and not want to try him. |
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Extreme Veteran
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Location: Lost in the swamps | If you want your horse to ride with his head down tie a a car tire on each side of his head!! What the????  - true story! my friends and I still laugh to this day about that dude! |
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 Tough Patooty
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Location: Sperry, OK | My dads neighbor once told me that horses could smell eachother and tell if they were related.....I have told my mom she needs to write a book on this guy! |
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