The TRUTH behind some Horsetrader ads!!
Pony Type: Small and Hairy
Arab Type:Looks startled
TB Type: Looks Terrified
Quarter Horse Type: Chunky
Halter Horse Type: Fat
Warmblood Type: Big and Hairy
Draft Type: Big and Exceedingly Hairy
16.2 hands: 15.1 h
15.2 hands: 14.1 h, and so on..
Easy to catch: stays in a stall
Started: we quit while we were still alive
Started Good: we quit while we were ahead
Bombproof: Lame, deaf and blind
Needs intermediate Rider: runaway
Needs Experienced Rider: hospitilized someone
Event Prospect: jumps 10' over a 2' creek
Dressage Prospect: bolts sideways from "boogers"
Pleasure Prospect: too lazy to hold up his head
Jumping Prospect: cleared fence 1st time saddled
Endurance Prospect: drop a rein, he'll run for miles

When we were looking at our old horse, the ad said 15.2 and I asked the lady if that was in Quarter horse inches or Arabian inches. Common knowledge in Arabs is to subtract 2-3 inches from the advertised height. He is actually 14.3

Very interesting, Staflady! I am not very familiar with Arabians, but I think they are beautiful.
I have went to look at a "16.2" hand horse, get there and he's 15.3h- counting his cowlick!And after more than a just a FEW of these misunderstandings,I recommend first asking "Is this with or without high heels?"

I just had a friend new to horses call me today. She went to go look at a 14.2 QH mare that is in foal. Well they didn't know but recently found out...anyway.

She called me and told me the seller told her the horse had a bit of the sniffles from being shipped from Minn. She was keeping her until it was cleared up. So my friend went to the farm for the first time today so see her. She noticed that the mare had a oozing abcess under her jaw, near the throatlatch. The seller told her it was nothing and that horses commonly have drainage there when they have a cold.

Thank God she called me before she brought the horse home. I asked her if the horse was quarentined and she said no, it was in the barn with the other horses. So just to be sure I called my vet and chatted with her about this horse and she confirmed my suspicion. STRANGLES. My friend has another horse so I told her that it was highly contagious. My vet told me that since this woman did not quarentine this mare, it will go through the barn.

Now I don't think this woman is stupid. But I think she did try to pull the wool over my friends eyes. I'm even tempted to say, unless this person is completely dense...the horse in question was probably fine and her barn was infected beforehand. Otherwise, if shehad any sense she'd have quarentined that horse before putting her entire barn at risk.

My friend is heartbroken...and putting a stop payment on the deposit. She feels bad about the poor foal too. It will probably be OK, but will wind up getting infected as well. What a mess. Even though the original post was lighthearted....just like with any animal....buyer beware!

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I guess it was a light-hearted way of telling a cold-hearted truth!That wasn't even a creative or half-way believable lie for ANYONE to accept,if only ALL liars were that DUMB!!So many times the story ends the OTHER way!