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    SWMBO has a horse agisted at a riding school across the other side of Perth, about 35 km or 40 minutes away on low traffic day and 1+ hour away during rush hour. All I know about horses is they bite and kick, so I have nothing to do with it, but apparently it needed dental work beyond the scope of a visiting horse dentist so SWMBO was arranged to take it to a dentist at a Vet hospital - guess where - of course, on the opposite side of Perth to the riding school.

    So yesterday we got up at 5:30 am and by 6 am we were swapping vehicles with a neighbour (neither of our cars are able to tow the eight of a horse + float) and then crossing the city to the riding school. Normally the neighbour does this with SWMBO but they were all unavailable so muggings here was called on to be the helper. All I was told I had to do was snooze in the passengers seat - yeah right!

    At the riding school I loaded the horse float. The horse was next, feed etc and then into the rush hour traffic for the 45 km drive across the city. At the vet hospital, it was very windy (yesterday was very stormy in Perth) off load horse, during which the horse got spooked by a wind gust and tore the rope out of SWMBO's hands giving her a nasty rope burn. Fortunately horse didn't bolt so he went into the hospital stables OK. Off load float - luckily we could leave the float there. Now SWMBO can't drive because of her hands so muggins is now behind the wheel and we're back into the rush hour traffic now heading the other way back home. Dropped the car back at the neighbours and arrived home at 10 am.

    Awaiting a call from the dentist which came at 2:30 pm when we repeated the process.
    Swap vehicles, drive to hospital, load float and while doing so the jockey wheel locking mechanism collapsed and the hitch fell onto my left food. Lucky I had my steel caps on!!! Out with the jack to lift the float so I could get the jockey wheel down and back the car under the ball.

    Load horse and now the 45 km cross city trek into the bumper to bumper rush hour heading out of the city and into another storm front!
    Got home at 6:30pm. I worked out I had spent more than 6 hours in rush hour traffic.

    Now here's the nice ending to the story.
    The dentist did not do what SWMBO had asked and instead of leaving the horse's teeth in a state where a visiting dentist can deal with it, now the horse will need to go back to the hospital in 6 months time. It was clearly a case of doing business to make more business and I was ready to make a scene with a bag of horse poo but SWMBO wanted to stay in with the vet hospital but will lodge a formal complaint. Fortunately the cost was nowhere near what I thought it would be but by the time we add in hire of the float and fuel it would have been close to $400 which I was told was a bargain!

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    You're a husband. Just do as you're told, and simile!

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    Quote Originally Posted by cava View Post
    You're a husband. Just do as you're told, and simile!
    Yep.

    Now here's the next episode. The original procedure was going to cost about 6 times more than we paid for so SWMBO says, seeing as we saved all that money, I can now buy a new saddle and boots!

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    I believe horse is a premium meat for human consumption, very rich and sweet. If you are not intending to sell it, then you don't need a butcher, just a back hoe and a bit of vacant land

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    Thankfully SWMBO has got rid of the hose with the bad teeth, kissing spine back and ulcerated front leg.
    The stable where it had a former life as a successful racehorse has taken it back to act a companion horse to younger horses but I suspect it won't be long for permanent retirement once the vet bills start coming in.

    Anyway, SWMBO has gone and got herself another much younger and not much trained animal for what I considered was a modest price - so far so good.
    However it appears the price perhaps too modest as it is not that well trained and a bit flightly.

    Two weeks or so ago while being walked it baulked at the sound of wind rustling through the trees and took a hurried side step leaving SWMBO flat on her back.
    At first everything seemed OK but since then there have been multiple visits to the physio and massage people and she is far from OK - no broken bones or bruising but she can't bend down to pick anything up and can only perform limited domestic duties which means I'm the one on deck.
    Even prior to this the horse was booked in today for a 2 week boot camp with a Horse whisperer an hour or so out of town but of course SWMBO is now not up doing this on her own so this morning I got wrangled in to help.
    First drive for half an hour across town to pick up float and horse, half an hour to get the horse and gear aboard. 90 minute drive back across town to find main road to property is closed have to drive another half hour or so on back roads to get around road closure, 1 Hour to get home.
    I haven't dared to ask what the horse whisperer costs.

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    What I know about horses isn't much. What I do know, is that the race horse is the strongest animal in the world, and that they are expensive composting machines. How do I know they're the strongest animal, do you know any other animal that can take thousands of people for a ride at one time. Got the slips tp prove it!!!!!
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    Since I had a spare few acres at the time I let a bloke put his massive draught horse (Major) in the paddock for a while.
    One day my mate Jack turned up with his new puppy dog (Tracker) who was about the size of a small cat.
    Jack put Tracker down on the ground and he saw Major chewing grass in the paddock, so he ran over to check Major out.
    Major saw tracker approaching and completely lost the plot. Tail in the air instantly, then the big escape charging off through the fence doing a big cartwheel (lucky not to break a neck).
    Jack and I looked at each other and laughed histerically.

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