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Ponybox Guide For Horse Fanatics - Catching The Bug
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 Equine fever is as easy to catch as your common cold, if not easier. It can easily be spread by your first reading of an issue of Heartland, watching a horse race on TV, or even sighting a horse galloping across a pasture through your car window. Once you've caught the bug, it stays with you your whole life. You'll experience cravings for information, pictures, stories and opportunities to be around horses whether you own one or not. Your parents tell you it's just a silly phase, but you tell them it isn't. Soon riding horses or even being around them will become a need for you, and without it you will grow more ill. Being around horses is like your medicine, and without it you'll eventually die. The Guide For Horse Fanatics is our own Ponybox guide to help you with your horse obsession.
Do you think you have the horse bug? If so, see if these personality traits match yours. If they do, you have a severe case of equine fever!
1. You have a love for the aroma of equine.
When you get to the barn for the first time that day, you stop and take in the sweet smell of hay and manure, just taking in the scent that equines naturally give off. When someone else walks into the barn and says, "Ew! It stinks in here!" Your heart stops for a minute.
2. You'd rather muck out a stall than clean your room.
When your mom yells at you to clean your room, you wish that you were at the barn so you could just clean the stalls instead of your room. This means you don't mind the stench of mucking out stalls, and no matter what you'd rather be closer to horses than anything else.
3. You set up a jumping course or barrel pattern and do it while pretending you're riding a horse on foot.
When you're not at the barn riding your horse, you have a craving for the speed and feeling of jumping that you get while riding. So, you improvise and set up your own course in your backyard to jump or run with your imaginary horse.
4. You space out in the middle of class day dreaming about you riding in a big show, or just riding.
When your teacher is going over some stupid math equations or going off about Columbus, all that's on your mind is you soaring over jumps on 'your' amazing 16.2hh Dutch Warmblood.
5. You would rather go for a trail ride than go on a date.
This shows that no matter what, horses come first. Before boys, before movie night, and normally even before homework. They're the first things on your agenda.
6. You shop for your horses more than for yourself.
When you're surfing the web for things on awesome sales or newest releases, it's always for a new roping saddle or a new pair of boots, or a saddle pad that fits your horse's color perfectly.
7. You can name every body part of the horse, but barely know the name of one bone in your body.
You know all or almost all of the body parts of the horse, but could care less about your own body parts.
8. You can describe every horse color.
You know and can easily describe every horse coat color.
9. Your room is covered in horse.
Whether your room is covered in ribbons from shows, pictures or stuffed animal horses, your room is an equine sancurary.
10. You can tell what a horse is thinking.
Once you become more indulged with horses and begin to spend more time with them, you will start to be able to anticipate what they will do next, read their facial expressions, and tell what their thinking from the look in their eyes.
If these personality traits are like you, you have caught the horse bug and are hopeless to get cured.
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Vaulter101
I think i am incurable..... Maybe my vet has a cure....lol
I think i am incurable..... Maybe my vet has a cure....lol
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Mar 6, 2013
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Mrs West Malik
love this artical, read it so many times now:3
love this artical, read it so many times now:3
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Jul 25, 2012
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Let It Ride
All ten are true of me hahaha
All ten are true of me hahaha
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26 days ago
• 198 views
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Artista
Very true. I'll never know how I "caught the bug" - for as long as I can remember, I've been fascinated with animals, specifically horses. It's unusual, but I love every minute of it. :)
Very true. I'll never know how I "caught the bug" - for as long as I can remember, I've been fascinated with animals, specifically horses. It's unusual, but I love every minute of it. :)
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26 days ago
• 199 views
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27 days ago
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ilovegator
great article! and i think i have a severe case of the "horse bug"
great article! and i think i have a severe case of the "horse bug"
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29 days ago
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Carpe Diem
Thanks everyone! :D
Thanks everyone! :D
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32 days ago
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Mystic56
I caught it when i first went to the stable near my house:D but sadly my parents wont allow me to own one......
I caught it when i first went to the stable near my house:D but sadly my parents wont allow me to own one......
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33 days ago
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WildWonderland
Nice article.I caught it by seeing my cousin's mini pony and since that I asked for a pony or horse.
Nice article.I caught it by seeing my cousin's mini pony and since that I asked for a pony or horse.
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37 days ago
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37 days ago
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37 days ago
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Doodles Forever
Great article! I do most of these, and I still do six, even though I don't own a horse anymore xD
Great article! I do most of these, and I still do six, even though I don't own a horse anymore xD
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40 days ago
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42 days ago
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My Paper Heart
Great article! Here is something that made me laugh: 'Being around horses is like your medicine, and without it you'll eventually die.' It's so true though! Lol.
Great article! Here is something that made me laugh: 'Being around horses is like your medicine, and without it you'll eventually die.' It's so true though! Lol.
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42 days ago
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44 days ago
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Empathy
10.I am so 10. LoL.:P
Great article! Hehe! This made me laugh so hard. At first I thought it was a fever for horses. Then I slowly realized that it was for people. LoL.
10.I am so 10. LoL.:P
Great article! Hehe! This made me laugh so hard. At first I thought it was a fever for horses. Then I slowly realized that it was for people. LoL.
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44 days ago
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As You Wish
love it!! said yes to all!! ^^
love it!! said yes to all!! ^^
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44 days ago
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Deep as Rhubarb
Almost all of these are true for me... xD
Almost all of these are true for me... xD
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45 days ago
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MySweetButterfly
100% true. Well, for me it is. xP Awesome article.
100% true. Well, for me it is. xP Awesome article.
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46 days ago
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abb77
soooo true! great article i remember getting the bug when my friend taught me how to draw a horse when i was little ... i also remember my very first pony ride when i was three :)
soooo true! great article i remember getting the bug when my friend taught me how to draw a horse when i was little ... i also remember my very first pony ride when i was three :)
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47 days ago
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