Beautiful Friesen Horses Playing in Their Arena

I love this peaceful video of four gorgeous black Friesen horses playing in their arena:


Thanks to Horsedream International for the inspiring video! The arena was built by Wolf Systems

It gives me a lot of happiness to see horses so well cared for!

A Friesen horse played the role of Bucephalus in the movie, Alexander.

Horse Abuse - Terrible, Terrible...

I've studied horse abuse and neglect for the last 24 hours, watching a wide variety of videos on the topic and reading websites. The problem of abused and neglected horses is tremendous. Apparently owners of many horses lose the ability to take care of them right, and rather than finding viable homes, they let the horses starve or worse. Other abuse cases are simply ignorant people thinking they can hit horses... one video even showed repeated use of a cattle prod that was never intended to be used on horses as they are too sensitive.

Then today I logged onto YouTube to see the new horse videos and found this tear-jerker video of a horse whose hooves were not properly cared for. Such a treacherous sad cruelty - to neglect an animal until it gets into such bad condition that it cannot walk and must be put to sleep. The horse in this video had to be moved to a place where it could be put down... it was heavily sedated. And such a pity - it was a beautiful horse. The owners should have sold it long ago.



Here's a site that explains horse hoof care.

Today I also found a "best case scenario" for a horse whose owner couldn't care for it. Read this blog: Nina's Story ... that page is the beginning of the story. Just go to the bottom and click "newer post" on each page and you can get the full story of how this beautiful TB was rescued and rehabilitated. Heart warming! I'm so grateful to find that horse blog after reading so many sad stories last night.

Carriage Horses - Want To Go For A Ride?

In New Hampshire the Granite State Carriage Friends got together for some carriage horse fun... traveling in the slow lane. Looks like the horses had a good time, plus the young man from Germany and all the club members. From YouTube member, HorsePaintings, posted today...

Here at home I reminisced about all the horse models I collected when I was a kid, and wrote Model Horse Sales while sifting through my favorite site looking at gorgous model horses... even found one of Bucephalus (Alexander the Great's horse)... lots of fun and good memories there.