Harsh Language

First of all I will say sorry I forgot to take any photos of how we are now stopping Niko from cribbing so I’ll just tell you about an interesting visit we had today, and do a post about Niko’s cribbing tomorrow.


Today the Gypsy that sold us Pip came to see how he was getting on in his new home. He was quite surprised at how small Pip was, he still has growing to do but it looks like he is going to be small when he is done growing. When the Gypsy, who I will call Bob to make thing easier, saw how small he was he offered us one of his other Gypsy Vanners, in exchange for Pip, that he believes will grow larger than Pip, obviously we declined.

He told us we should put Pip outside the paddock on a tether so he can get to the grass, first of all I don’t like tethering horses or ponies or any other form of equine, so that was also a no, but the thing I find odd about Bob telling us to put him on a tether is that not long ago he was telling us how one of his horses had broken it’s neck by running around on it’s tether, so I think it best not to tether don’t you?

As Bob stood back next to Pip looking at the other horses he saw Tipper and we started telling him about why and where we got him. Bob then started to tell us how meat men were paying a good price for horses of that size. At first I didn’t even know what he meant, until he went on to say he’s just costing you money while you keep him and he’s no good for anything, and then I realized what he was getting at, no thank you sir.

He has advised us to use olive oil on Pip’s tail to make it nice and shiny makes sense I guess, but then he also told us to pour a mixture of paraffin and used motor oil over Pip’s mane and down his legs to remove any mites or varmints as he would say. It is true we do need to consider a way of preventing mites as any horse or pony with feathers is prone to them, but I think that is maybe not the safest way to go about it.

All this said Bob is a nice person if a little odd, but then I suppose he thinks we are odd too, but in a way some of the things he says do make sense to the more harsh business like person. Just as well I am a useless business man, I would rather keep Tipper as a companion or something for the rest of his life than send him to meat.

In yet more other news I have tried the saddle pad for the first time to day and will also be doing a post/review about that sometime soon.