Should/Can I Buy A Horse and Ride It Each Day To The Office/ XC Practice?

Sounds like you will carry on my legacy (Mr. Hands).

There were blanks in that gun!

Dude,

You can't just ride a horse to work. You have to have a buggy to go along with it.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/36/98394031_2b55e81bd8_o.jpg

Depends. Who do you more resemble? Neidermeier or Patton?

Robert, my mother and father own 6 Arabians and 1 Mustang on their little ranch north of Reno. Horses are very high maintenance animals, requiring constant health care and training. If you don't have the time and resources to make this commitment, don't even think about getting a horse.

If you are willing to make this commitment, you will enjoy it. I encourage you to a adopt a Mustang as we did. Some of the Mustangs up for adoption have been previously tamed and trained by prisoners at the Nevada State Prison.

I am not an expert on this subject, so if you would like to discuss this with my father, who is a former 400 runner, state championship winning track coach and a very friendly guy, just give me a holler.

Jason

www.666energy.com wrote:

Robert, my mother and father own 6 Arabians and 1 Mustang on their little ranch north of Reno. Horses are very high maintenance animals, requiring constant health care and training. If you don't have the time and resources to make this commitment, don't even think about getting a horse.

If you are willing to make this commitment, you will enjoy it. I encourage you to a adopt a Mustang as we did. Some of the Mustangs up for adoption have been previously tamed and trained by prisoners at the Nevada State Prison.

I am not an expert on this subject, so if you would like to discuss this with my father, who is a former 400 runner, state championship winning track coach and a very friendly guy, just give me a holler.

Jason

What he said about the maintenance.

www.666energy.com wrote:

Robert, my mother and father own 6 Arabians and 1 Mustang on their little ranch north of Reno. Horses are very high maintenance animals, requiring constant health care and training. If you don't have the time and resources to make this commitment, don't even think about getting a horse.

If you are willing to make this commitment, you will enjoy it. I encourage you to a adopt a Mustang as we did. Some of the Mustangs up for adoption have been previously tamed and trained by prisoners at the Nevada State Prison.

I am not an expert on this subject, so if you would like to discuss this with my father, who is a former 400 runner, state championship winning track coach and a very friendly guy, just give me a holler.

Jason

Jason, did you really expect a Brojo to think it through?

They cannot even proof read before posting supposed intelligent articles on their site...

Hey, I've been known to screw up things myself. I just wanted to emphasize the fact that while you can just put out some food and water for a cat or dog and pet it now and then, a horse demands that you change your lifestyle completely.

A lot of pets sleep with their owner.

It would take at least a king sized bed for rojo and a horse. Besides that, rojo would be taking a chance on being kicked out of bed. Yuk Yuk!

Are girl friends amendable to having a horse sleep between them and their partner?

Save a horse, ride a cowboy to work.

Get Real Real wrote:

Jason, did you really expect a Brojo to think it through?

They cannot even proof read before posting supposed intelligent articles on their site...

Do you really think Robert Johnson is going to buy a horse?

Get yourself a mule maybe: http://runningtimes.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=20233

Rojo, do you really plan to make over 600K/year so you cant take the USATF job? If so, you're my hero!

Two names, rojo:

Jack Lovelock

Christopher Reeve (Cornell '74)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_horse_accidents

People in urban (okay, it's Ithaca: semi-urban) environments were not meant to ride horses. That's why God made automobiles and shoes.

Oh, wait...

What the hell, get a horse if you want. You bigtime Div. I coaches have the dough. Just wear good protective gear. Always.

And find someone you can rely on, to take care of the animal when you're out of town.

0/10.

TrollyPolly wrote:

0/10.

How you gonna call out the co-founder of this site for trolling, jackass? And even so, he gets 10/10 because his post was A) hilarious and B) got a wealth of responses before yours. This is the best I have seen Rojo perform in years...

rojo wrote:

snip... It also would please the green movement which is big here in town. ...snip.

You can't please the green movement, ever. Strike that one off your list.

Equine operations can have multiple environmental effects that go beyond a specific farm. For instance, soil erosion is a major contributor to non-point source pollutants potentially originating from equine pastures, stables and trails. Soil displaced by horse hoof traffic associated with poor pasture grass management or trail maintenance often leads to problematic sedimentation offsite with the downstream transport of nitrogen, phosphorus and bacteria. Another consideration is the proper disposal of manure produced in a farm. Since manure may contain parasites, many equine producers are hesitant to apply stall waste to their pastures. Most stall waste also includes a high percentage of bedding material such as wood shavings. This added material can significantly increase the volume of waste being spread and can impact the growth and development of pasture grasses.

A horse will on average produce between 15 and 35 pounds of manure per day. Consequently, the streets of nineteenth-century cities were covered by horse manure. This in turn attracted huge numbers of flies, and the dried and ground-up manure was blown everywhere.

Horses also have a lot of flatulence. And as we know, this causes methane. So therefore, you'd be helping the environment by not getting a horse.

The climate change ...er disruption... people would be happy, but what about PETA?