So my so called parents called in a false claim to CPS. Even when the house was messy it wasn't as bad as they "claimed" it was... They told the CPS people that we had dog shit everywhere, that there was cat piss everywhere, that we left the dishes in the sink for a month, that there were maggets everywhere... Even at the messiest it was NEVER like that. Ever! I could've walked through the house yesterday before we did a full clean on it and it still wouldn't be bad lol the guy when he walked in yesterday was happy it wasn't what it seemed like. Think about the worst hoarders house mixed with a crack heads house and that's what my folks said it was... Which it was never EVER like that! It was a false claim.
I'm not sure what happens when it was a false claim.
Our pets sure have been much better sense those damn cats left. :) It's always a bummer when cats do turf wars lol the cleaning up after sometimes takes a little while especially if you want it so spotless that they'll never smell the pee. sometimes you gotta clean and reclean which we've done probably five times. :) It's now spotless and there is NO trace of cat pee we found every spot and cleaned it all. :)
Our house has never ever been dangerous for our daughter. EVER!
I'm not sure what happens after a false claim, but we'll see what happens. I really love how we reorganised the room :) I love the room so much now hehe. we cleaned and recleaned the couch about five times, there is absolutely NO SCENT of left over cat pee on that. The floors are spick and span. :) Need to clean the vaccum because well.... it's been months sense I've washed it and cleaned it lol it picks up a lot of pup fur (he's long haired) and kitty fur (one is long haired the other short haired)
So anyone in here have to deal with a false claim?
They said this stuff....
That we had dishes in the sink for a month
That we had cat piss everywhere on top of everything
Dog shit everywhere
Maggets/flies everywhere
That it's unsafe for Annibelle and that we had no intention of correcting it.
That to me is a 100% false claim lol because we've been cleaning, it's never been unsafe for Annibelle and she's always been safe for her :)
I'm downloading a youtube video of a walk through on the house... :) you be the judge. My husband spoke on the video of what was what and where.
let me know if you've ever had this happen to you.
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Ten Years searching... When is it time to call it quits?
Hello everyone, Most of you all know the story of my ten year search... For those who do not, this pretty much sums it up (This is the adds I have going)
I've been searching for this boy going on ten years now.
His back story is this....
I had him ten years he was born on my folks land and I trained him. He was/is my best friend and the best horse I've ever had the privilege of knowing. Back in 05 he was injured and my father had no idea because he left my Mom and I for quite a few months.... When he came back my boy was still unable to be ridden. Well I could ride him but I wanted to give him extra time to make sure he was 100% sound. So I was giving him a year off. He eventually became a baby sitter for a new foal out at the stable and I wasn't able to even go near him. (The boarder didn't want me to teach the filly anything by working with Joe around her so I couldn't even pet my boy in the pen. My Mom backed the boarder up as well. :( Sadly, so the only time I could be near him was when it was night time or when the boarder wasn't there which was hardly never because it was summer at the time)
My father saw that I had dropped out of high school and that I wasn't "Working" with Joe he had no clue the reasons to why I did both but decided to go behind my back to give Smokey Joe away. Without me knowing (I did get one warning from a friend a few days before but I didn't believe it because it seemed to crazy) he gave him away!
I spent a while in a spiral of depression and then eventually pulled myself out and started to search. I've been searching ever sense.
I have followed him for the first year which for the first five years I had been lied to! It wasn't until a Craigslist add made his second owners write me and tell me more about him.
He was sold to the Jenkinsons who had lied to me for years! They said that he was sold to a grandmother who had him for her grandchild and that Joe kept getting his hooves colord and he was in Eugene Pony Club... So 2006 I went to the Summer show and I didn't see him. I thought heck he was just not there but he was safe. Then I got word he was in Washington (They claimed she moved to Washington) SO I searched and searched all over Washington. It wasn't till 2010 that I got a email saying in the first year he went from the Jenkinsons to the Stewarts where hew as used as a lesson horse, then a girl named Missy Gifford bought him and that's where the lead ends.
The story is.... Missy bought him and she brought him to AZ and claimed the photos taken of him were in AZ however, the photos were from her home in Oregon. Then she claims that she sold him to a Nancy Fernandez in Santa Cruz California and he is a ranch horse now. (I'm not sure how reliable that is but that's what she said) In 2010 I was reached out by the Eugene Newspaper who wanted to cover the story and get the reunited video of us for a "Feel good" Story and I was totally down for that. I was so excited that I told my father. He didn't even listen and then a week later he asked for ALL the information about the story, who had him and everything. After I gave him the information thinking he'd help me, all leads dropped. NO ONE talked to me. It was like they were scared to.
So here I am five years later still searching. His page is www.facebook.com/smokeyjoe1995
You can follow me there. His information is this...
14.0-14.3 hands
Quarab (His daddy was either a Pure Polish Arab gelding black, or a Buckskin Quarter horse, he had the buckskin markings on him as a foal so we think it's the QH. It was a accidental breeding the stud got out and got with the mare)
20 years old
born July 1995
well trained
Has a blaze down the left side of his nostril
Freckle on his cheek bone
One white hoof with a black stripe.
If you know where he is please let me know. I just want to know he's okay, go see him and maybe when he's for sale (If he ever is) buy him back for my Daughter. :) You can also see his video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsWfEKBwCtE
Anyone ever been in this situation? Missing their Furry friend and can't do anything and every time you get a lead it drops? But you see the bright silver lining? It's like I hold onto the fact that I know some day I'll run into him. I don't know how, or where but I know I will... But the time right now I just want to bury my head in a sand pile and stop searching but my heart wont let me. lol It's a thing that could drive you nuts!
I am fully aware that people are intimidated by me. Scared I'll "Steal" him. That's not my intention to Intimidate them, and "stealing" him isn't even in my vocabulary or even in my head. I pretty much laugh at people who think that, because quite honestly I'm the most honest person they'll ever know and I wear my heart on my sleeve. Theres no other way to live then that way in my eyes. I live by the saying, "Live your life the way that if people tell the God honest truth about you, you'll never be ashamed" because if the truth makes you ashamed then it's wrong and you should rethink your life. People can speak the truth about me and even the bad I'll own up to and tell them, "yea I know I don't regret it nor do I feel ashamed but it did happen" like say I backed into another car accidentally and the truth made me look super bad I'd just be like, "yea it happened. It was a mistake I owned up to" or another instance is like say you cheated on your spouse... Someone told the honest truth to your spouse would you own up to it and say "yea I did it" or would you hide and BS your way around it? That's stuff you should really think about. Look back on your life and if you had a true life story on you from the time you were a kid till now, what would you feel ashamed about? I've done bad things in my past, probably some bad in the present and more in likely in the future. Were only human we mess up, but it's if you can say, "yea, I did that and I'm not ashamed but it's wrong I know it was and I'm sorry" then your living your life the right way.... Even better if you've never done anything that is considered bad, and that's how I live my life. I respect everyone, and everything!
When it comes to people thinking I'll steal Smokey, I never would. Because if the shoe was on the other foot... How would I feel if someone stole my horse I loved and I was being a good person and letting them see their old horse again. I would feel realty bad and I would take legal actions if that happened, but I wont let that fear stop me from helping a person out to see their horse if they've been searching a long time. That's just not who I am. I live my life by my saying above and by stopping and thinking, "How would this feel if it was done to me" those two things keep me out of a lot of trouble :) But there aren't a lot of people out there like me....
For instance... I had an add on Equine.com for Doc my old barrel horse that I sold back in 2010. I was looking for him to see if I could find him and see how he was doing. I didn't even think he was alive, but sure enough a photographer got a hold of me. She said she took photos of a horse that looked like Doc. She told me the owners name and I looked her up. It took two months to get a hold of her but when I did she was a bit hesitant. (Understandable) But she met me.... First meeting was without Doc. We talked and she told me about his past which I was furious about and so grateful she saved him from that maniac. (I sold him being promised he'd be a ranch horse, that was far from the truth and he eventually was beat. He had thumb tacks in his tie down to keep his head down so his nose was all cut up and bloodied) She told me that she was practicing in a month and she'd be willing to trailer doc to it and give me a day with him. I was so excited and I said, "I'd love that" so the month passed and she did what she said she would (Rare person) and I spent the day with doc. I was even able to ride him alone in an arena while she worked her other horses. I enjoyed every minute of it and realized he's so happy where he's at and that life was great for him. :) She offered to give him back to me. I declined and said, "Honey he's happy with you, safe and healthy. I couldn't ask for a better life for him" so she kept him :) He's now retired with a girlfriend at her friends house :) but that gal didn't have to do what she said she'd do. The whole time people were telling me, "It's to good to be true, she wont bring him. She's a liar" and I just told them, "hey, give her the benefit of the doubt. She might be a honest upfront person like me :) I wont say she's bad until I get proof she is" and I'll tell ya, she's FAR FROM bad... :) my trip to Texas with my husband and his brother and our Dog and cat we were near her neck of the woods sleeping in the car and she gave us a place to sleep at and even offered to cook breakfast even though she had to get to work. She's an amazing person and I'm ever so grateful for her help and her helping Doc out :) To me there should be more people like that because that's how I would be. I met her twice. She let me sleep in her house for a nigh on the way to Texas.
See theirs something not a lot of people know about my husband and I...
My husband he lives to help people. Whether homeless on the streets or just needing help with a car or some extra groceries. Even if it hurts us, we'll do it and I agree it's a good thing to help others. No matter what happens to us, that's what we do and we plan on doing it a lot more when we get on our feet :) Our all time goal is to have a nice piece of land and help animals as well as give back to the community :) We love to help people and like I said eventually when I save horses I'll be looking at things for people searching for their old horses (Their horses that they sold to someone who promised to take care of them and were actually a horse trader like what happened to me, and people who hit hard times and couldn't keep their horses) and we'll also help people keep their horses and what not :) because I know all to well how it feels.
I also plan on running a website to help people search for their pets, their horses, and what not. Thats what I plan on doing. It'll be like a foundation but no quite. If you know what I'm saying :) just run by my husband and I and it'll be strictly to help people :) hehe. I can't wait till we can do that. It's a all time dream. He's always wanted a animal reserve to save all sorts of animals, exotics and domestic. Wild and all that. He wanted to be a natural biologist but he's veering more towards architecture. Which no matter what he does he'll be awesome at.
So now that Y'all know a bit more about me and my husband.... the fact that I've been searching ten years for joe has nothing to do with the fact that I'd love him back, but more with the fact that I made him a promise. He was never supposed to leave me. He was supposed to be there when I got married, he was supposed to approve of the guy I was with (Because honestly he saved my butt many times with guys I dated. He'd attack the guy if he wasn't a good guy) He was supposed to be my Daughters/Sons first horse that they learned with and he was supposed to be my training horse. He was supposed to be with me his whole life. But sense he's been gone ten years, all I can hope is where ever he is he's happy, safe and healthy :) that's all I can think of right now and hope for. Thinking any other way kills me. I don't want to imagine he was ever mistreated, beat or abused. I don't want to think he ever went through more then three owners. I don't want to think that he was ever ridden by a really big heavy person because he's such a tiny horse. He is a pony actually...
In the end... if/When I find him... all I want is for him to let me know he's happy, healthy and loves where he's at. I don't want to push anything on his owners. I don't want to try to buy him back, I don't want to take him, I just want to give him a hug. Tell him I love him and that I'm happy he's safe and happy and get updates on him :) Be friends with his owners. Tell them all about his tricks, his past, his training (Because I did all his training myself) If his owners are blown away by how he reacts with me and wants to sell him or give him back to me, I'd never turn that down. But where it stands right now, I just want to know how he is, if he's safe, happy and healthy :) I want to see what he looks like now :) I bet he's very handsome and pure white.
I bet y'all are thinking, "Your crazy to want to help people out and help them if they've been searching and let them see their horse if it's yours. You'll run into that crazy person who'll harass you and never give you a moments break" well.... yea I know I"ll run into those "assholes" if you will who'll try to steal, who'll do everything in their power to take the horse. Who'll be total JERKS! But how a person treats another person tells you a lot about how they'd treat the horse/animal. I'm not scared of the people who'll take it to all the limits. I'm always going to give people a shot and trust that their good people. :) Because everyone is a good person unless proven otherwise just like every animal is a good animal unless proven otherwise. Ive had some animals (Including my black cat Trinity) that people would NEVER want. But those animals are great and there big lovers. :) My black cat would never hurt me purposely but she'd attack others without warning or any provoking. She's just that way. I know I could never give her away because no one would want her. when it comes to people searching for their old pets (horses, Dogs, Cats, Rats... what ever the pet might be) I can always help them out and tell them my story. Let them know they'll always be able to see the animal and they could have them back as long as I knew a few things... That they can afford the pet, That they love the pet dearly and that they'll treat the pet with respect and kindness. If they can't prove that then they wont be able to have the pet back, but they can get updates and they can see the pet at any time. If the circumstances changed then there more then welcome to... Or if they can't have the pet at their house (like horses) then they can have them at our place. Our ranch. That wouldn't be an issue.
But that's me... So like the title says... When is the right time to call it quits? What would you do? Would you ever quit? Give up? Stop searching? Move on?
Me I don't think I can, my heart wont let me. My soul wont let me. But I am going to get another horse and train him/her :) Keep my mind occupied and get back into the horse world. :) Get my daughter into horses. Maybe I'll run across Joe at a show, a gaming event, a boarding stable. Who knows where I'll run into him bu know I will some day :)
Theres a little bit about us, and my search for Joe.. Comment below, subscribe and follow me... Maybe some day you'll see the update, "I FOUND JOE, I'M GOING TO SEE HIM TODAY!" :)
I love you all. Thank you for reading and thank you for following and sharing my stories.
Below are some pictures of Joe and I through the years and the last photos I got of him from his last known owner.
Our last show
OUr first barrel race
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I've been searching for this boy going on ten years now.
His back story is this....
I had him ten years he was born on my folks land and I trained him. He was/is my best friend and the best horse I've ever had the privilege of knowing. Back in 05 he was injured and my father had no idea because he left my Mom and I for quite a few months.... When he came back my boy was still unable to be ridden. Well I could ride him but I wanted to give him extra time to make sure he was 100% sound. So I was giving him a year off. He eventually became a baby sitter for a new foal out at the stable and I wasn't able to even go near him. (The boarder didn't want me to teach the filly anything by working with Joe around her so I couldn't even pet my boy in the pen. My Mom backed the boarder up as well. :( Sadly, so the only time I could be near him was when it was night time or when the boarder wasn't there which was hardly never because it was summer at the time)
My father saw that I had dropped out of high school and that I wasn't "Working" with Joe he had no clue the reasons to why I did both but decided to go behind my back to give Smokey Joe away. Without me knowing (I did get one warning from a friend a few days before but I didn't believe it because it seemed to crazy) he gave him away!
I spent a while in a spiral of depression and then eventually pulled myself out and started to search. I've been searching ever sense.
I have followed him for the first year which for the first five years I had been lied to! It wasn't until a Craigslist add made his second owners write me and tell me more about him.
He was sold to the Jenkinsons who had lied to me for years! They said that he was sold to a grandmother who had him for her grandchild and that Joe kept getting his hooves colord and he was in Eugene Pony Club... So 2006 I went to the Summer show and I didn't see him. I thought heck he was just not there but he was safe. Then I got word he was in Washington (They claimed she moved to Washington) SO I searched and searched all over Washington. It wasn't till 2010 that I got a email saying in the first year he went from the Jenkinsons to the Stewarts where hew as used as a lesson horse, then a girl named Missy Gifford bought him and that's where the lead ends.
The story is.... Missy bought him and she brought him to AZ and claimed the photos taken of him were in AZ however, the photos were from her home in Oregon. Then she claims that she sold him to a Nancy Fernandez in Santa Cruz California and he is a ranch horse now. (I'm not sure how reliable that is but that's what she said) In 2010 I was reached out by the Eugene Newspaper who wanted to cover the story and get the reunited video of us for a "Feel good" Story and I was totally down for that. I was so excited that I told my father. He didn't even listen and then a week later he asked for ALL the information about the story, who had him and everything. After I gave him the information thinking he'd help me, all leads dropped. NO ONE talked to me. It was like they were scared to.
So here I am five years later still searching. His page is www.facebook.com/smokeyjoe1995
You can follow me there. His information is this...
14.0-14.3 hands
Quarab (His daddy was either a Pure Polish Arab gelding black, or a Buckskin Quarter horse, he had the buckskin markings on him as a foal so we think it's the QH. It was a accidental breeding the stud got out and got with the mare)
20 years old
born July 1995
well trained
Has a blaze down the left side of his nostril
Freckle on his cheek bone
One white hoof with a black stripe.
If you know where he is please let me know. I just want to know he's okay, go see him and maybe when he's for sale (If he ever is) buy him back for my Daughter. :) You can also see his video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsWfEKBwCtE
Anyone ever been in this situation? Missing their Furry friend and can't do anything and every time you get a lead it drops? But you see the bright silver lining? It's like I hold onto the fact that I know some day I'll run into him. I don't know how, or where but I know I will... But the time right now I just want to bury my head in a sand pile and stop searching but my heart wont let me. lol It's a thing that could drive you nuts!
I am fully aware that people are intimidated by me. Scared I'll "Steal" him. That's not my intention to Intimidate them, and "stealing" him isn't even in my vocabulary or even in my head. I pretty much laugh at people who think that, because quite honestly I'm the most honest person they'll ever know and I wear my heart on my sleeve. Theres no other way to live then that way in my eyes. I live by the saying, "Live your life the way that if people tell the God honest truth about you, you'll never be ashamed" because if the truth makes you ashamed then it's wrong and you should rethink your life. People can speak the truth about me and even the bad I'll own up to and tell them, "yea I know I don't regret it nor do I feel ashamed but it did happen" like say I backed into another car accidentally and the truth made me look super bad I'd just be like, "yea it happened. It was a mistake I owned up to" or another instance is like say you cheated on your spouse... Someone told the honest truth to your spouse would you own up to it and say "yea I did it" or would you hide and BS your way around it? That's stuff you should really think about. Look back on your life and if you had a true life story on you from the time you were a kid till now, what would you feel ashamed about? I've done bad things in my past, probably some bad in the present and more in likely in the future. Were only human we mess up, but it's if you can say, "yea, I did that and I'm not ashamed but it's wrong I know it was and I'm sorry" then your living your life the right way.... Even better if you've never done anything that is considered bad, and that's how I live my life. I respect everyone, and everything!
When it comes to people thinking I'll steal Smokey, I never would. Because if the shoe was on the other foot... How would I feel if someone stole my horse I loved and I was being a good person and letting them see their old horse again. I would feel realty bad and I would take legal actions if that happened, but I wont let that fear stop me from helping a person out to see their horse if they've been searching a long time. That's just not who I am. I live my life by my saying above and by stopping and thinking, "How would this feel if it was done to me" those two things keep me out of a lot of trouble :) But there aren't a lot of people out there like me....
For instance... I had an add on Equine.com for Doc my old barrel horse that I sold back in 2010. I was looking for him to see if I could find him and see how he was doing. I didn't even think he was alive, but sure enough a photographer got a hold of me. She said she took photos of a horse that looked like Doc. She told me the owners name and I looked her up. It took two months to get a hold of her but when I did she was a bit hesitant. (Understandable) But she met me.... First meeting was without Doc. We talked and she told me about his past which I was furious about and so grateful she saved him from that maniac. (I sold him being promised he'd be a ranch horse, that was far from the truth and he eventually was beat. He had thumb tacks in his tie down to keep his head down so his nose was all cut up and bloodied) She told me that she was practicing in a month and she'd be willing to trailer doc to it and give me a day with him. I was so excited and I said, "I'd love that" so the month passed and she did what she said she would (Rare person) and I spent the day with doc. I was even able to ride him alone in an arena while she worked her other horses. I enjoyed every minute of it and realized he's so happy where he's at and that life was great for him. :) She offered to give him back to me. I declined and said, "Honey he's happy with you, safe and healthy. I couldn't ask for a better life for him" so she kept him :) He's now retired with a girlfriend at her friends house :) but that gal didn't have to do what she said she'd do. The whole time people were telling me, "It's to good to be true, she wont bring him. She's a liar" and I just told them, "hey, give her the benefit of the doubt. She might be a honest upfront person like me :) I wont say she's bad until I get proof she is" and I'll tell ya, she's FAR FROM bad... :) my trip to Texas with my husband and his brother and our Dog and cat we were near her neck of the woods sleeping in the car and she gave us a place to sleep at and even offered to cook breakfast even though she had to get to work. She's an amazing person and I'm ever so grateful for her help and her helping Doc out :) To me there should be more people like that because that's how I would be. I met her twice. She let me sleep in her house for a nigh on the way to Texas.
See theirs something not a lot of people know about my husband and I...
My husband he lives to help people. Whether homeless on the streets or just needing help with a car or some extra groceries. Even if it hurts us, we'll do it and I agree it's a good thing to help others. No matter what happens to us, that's what we do and we plan on doing it a lot more when we get on our feet :) Our all time goal is to have a nice piece of land and help animals as well as give back to the community :) We love to help people and like I said eventually when I save horses I'll be looking at things for people searching for their old horses (Their horses that they sold to someone who promised to take care of them and were actually a horse trader like what happened to me, and people who hit hard times and couldn't keep their horses) and we'll also help people keep their horses and what not :) because I know all to well how it feels.
I also plan on running a website to help people search for their pets, their horses, and what not. Thats what I plan on doing. It'll be like a foundation but no quite. If you know what I'm saying :) just run by my husband and I and it'll be strictly to help people :) hehe. I can't wait till we can do that. It's a all time dream. He's always wanted a animal reserve to save all sorts of animals, exotics and domestic. Wild and all that. He wanted to be a natural biologist but he's veering more towards architecture. Which no matter what he does he'll be awesome at.
So now that Y'all know a bit more about me and my husband.... the fact that I've been searching ten years for joe has nothing to do with the fact that I'd love him back, but more with the fact that I made him a promise. He was never supposed to leave me. He was supposed to be there when I got married, he was supposed to approve of the guy I was with (Because honestly he saved my butt many times with guys I dated. He'd attack the guy if he wasn't a good guy) He was supposed to be my Daughters/Sons first horse that they learned with and he was supposed to be my training horse. He was supposed to be with me his whole life. But sense he's been gone ten years, all I can hope is where ever he is he's happy, safe and healthy :) that's all I can think of right now and hope for. Thinking any other way kills me. I don't want to imagine he was ever mistreated, beat or abused. I don't want to think he ever went through more then three owners. I don't want to think that he was ever ridden by a really big heavy person because he's such a tiny horse. He is a pony actually...
In the end... if/When I find him... all I want is for him to let me know he's happy, healthy and loves where he's at. I don't want to push anything on his owners. I don't want to try to buy him back, I don't want to take him, I just want to give him a hug. Tell him I love him and that I'm happy he's safe and happy and get updates on him :) Be friends with his owners. Tell them all about his tricks, his past, his training (Because I did all his training myself) If his owners are blown away by how he reacts with me and wants to sell him or give him back to me, I'd never turn that down. But where it stands right now, I just want to know how he is, if he's safe, happy and healthy :) I want to see what he looks like now :) I bet he's very handsome and pure white.
I bet y'all are thinking, "Your crazy to want to help people out and help them if they've been searching and let them see their horse if it's yours. You'll run into that crazy person who'll harass you and never give you a moments break" well.... yea I know I"ll run into those "assholes" if you will who'll try to steal, who'll do everything in their power to take the horse. Who'll be total JERKS! But how a person treats another person tells you a lot about how they'd treat the horse/animal. I'm not scared of the people who'll take it to all the limits. I'm always going to give people a shot and trust that their good people. :) Because everyone is a good person unless proven otherwise just like every animal is a good animal unless proven otherwise. Ive had some animals (Including my black cat Trinity) that people would NEVER want. But those animals are great and there big lovers. :) My black cat would never hurt me purposely but she'd attack others without warning or any provoking. She's just that way. I know I could never give her away because no one would want her. when it comes to people searching for their old pets (horses, Dogs, Cats, Rats... what ever the pet might be) I can always help them out and tell them my story. Let them know they'll always be able to see the animal and they could have them back as long as I knew a few things... That they can afford the pet, That they love the pet dearly and that they'll treat the pet with respect and kindness. If they can't prove that then they wont be able to have the pet back, but they can get updates and they can see the pet at any time. If the circumstances changed then there more then welcome to... Or if they can't have the pet at their house (like horses) then they can have them at our place. Our ranch. That wouldn't be an issue.
But that's me... So like the title says... When is the right time to call it quits? What would you do? Would you ever quit? Give up? Stop searching? Move on?
Me I don't think I can, my heart wont let me. My soul wont let me. But I am going to get another horse and train him/her :) Keep my mind occupied and get back into the horse world. :) Get my daughter into horses. Maybe I'll run across Joe at a show, a gaming event, a boarding stable. Who knows where I'll run into him bu know I will some day :)
Theres a little bit about us, and my search for Joe.. Comment below, subscribe and follow me... Maybe some day you'll see the update, "I FOUND JOE, I'M GOING TO SEE HIM TODAY!" :)
I love you all. Thank you for reading and thank you for following and sharing my stories.
Below are some pictures of Joe and I through the years and the last photos I got of him from his last known owner.
Our last show
Joe and I before he was sold
OUr first barrel race |
| One of the photos from his last owner this was like 2006 |
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| Another from his old owner |
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| Another from his old owner |
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| Boozer the other horse him and Joe were together from birth till 8 years old. Joe and I on the trails in BLM |
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| Joe and his Momma |
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| When I started working Joe. |
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| Not the greatest of me haha.. Yes I am flipping off the person taking the photo, but I love this photo of Joe he looks so beautiful! |
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| Joe as a foal with his momma |
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| When I first started training Joe I think he was 5 here |
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| Joe as a foal again |
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| I had NO CLUE my Mom was taking these to sell him. This was when they first tried to sell him |
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| Doc and Joe in the pasture |
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| Another photo I had no idea was going to be a sale shot, but it shows his white hoof with that black stripe perfectly |
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| Joe and Jett. Jett was another horse I had that I retrained |
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| When we didn't know any better with horses haha. Joe and his Momma |
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| Hanging out with Joebert |
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| I think I had just got done jumping him lol |
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| Our first barrel race. |
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| I used to hop on joe when he was eating at night lol I loved riding him in the field with nothing on him. He'd just kinda stroll around like nothing was bothering him |
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| He walked into the small round pen we had in there and I couldn't pass it up |
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| Joe and Boozer when Joe was very dapple |
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| The horse show in the Dalles. It was a fathers day horse show. We stayed over night and the lady judging was the lady who beat him when he was younger (The first person my folks sold him to) there was nothing stopping him from running her over. I tried and tried. lol But if you can tell he's pretty happy with himself haha |
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| Running up to me :) |
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| Last show we went to |
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| More of the last show |
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| Getting him used to Geese. He was ready to bolt |
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| I love this one of him too. Just wish he wasn't blurry |
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| Another color change he went through |
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| Just playing around in the arena |
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| Our VERY FIRST SHOW. He was a handful and I was so tiny lol |
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