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[katrina]

Thanks Soap, That was vary kind...

[Team1roper]

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TeamRoper
Think or say whatever you want. Was only giving you my perspective from my area. Example just a few days ago a member from this forum that we all know who lives in your country contacted me through private message about buying a horse from me.[/quote]

Roper I am not knocking what you are saying at all, Horse folks are a strange bunch including myself, Horses unlike any other livestock is looked at in many different ways.
Where my opinion of a horse that naturaly tries to hurt someone needs to be treated like cattle and gotten rid of
someone else wants it saved because it is a horse
and where i might think to discipline or train a horse one way there is another way for every person that owns a horse

But in this neck of the woods where horses aren't real dominate in the show world and you have ranchers who would rather go to a registered angus auction or prospect show, Names of horses aren't as important as how the horse performs working on a ranch or in an arena roping.
your average decent money horse around here is 4K anything more rarely seen.

[RoperAB]

About the dirt farmer jab on the other thread.

I just want to set the record straight. Im not a horse snob. Im the exact opposite of that.
But I do dislike people who blame the horse for things that are the owners fault. Not the horses fault.
One of the reasons im so against hose slaughter is because of a guy I know. This guy was given the ranch, trucks, cow herd, the whole works and even given some decent saddle stock.
This guy thinks he is a horseman because he was born on the ranch and was sat on good horses to trail cows when it had to be done ever since he was a kid. He has no interest in horses. He was never taught anything and he sure would not make the efort to learn anything about horses. He only uses them because he has to trail cows every now and then.
He generally refers to horses as dog food but yet he likes to dress the part of a cowboy because he really likes the image.
Because of his own actions he got bucked off in front of others. Took the horse straight to the packers instead of to auction because he said he wanted to make sure the horse didnt get bought by someone who would give it a good life. He said he wanted the horse to suffer for what it did to him. By selling it to the packers he could make it suffer and get paid for it at the same time. When I think of horse slaughter I think of him.
And thats just one example. I could give many more but the theme is always the same.

BTW
How would a farmer like it if people who have never farmed for a living started saying that they knew more about the farming business than he did? What if these people told the farmer that because they had a garden in their backyard that they knew more about agribusiness than he did and then they started calling him names? Wouldnt the farmer get annoyed?

[RoperAB]