Lusitano

I see reviews for this all over and my husband ordered one. It sits unopened because I have strong doubts it is worth even trying. I have not found one single person who has used their Cat Genie successfully, a year after all those positive reviews were written. The new processor sounds hopeless and useless with no solution. Also, people love the CG or hate it right out of the box. I want to know how they feel about that CG after a year, when the warranty is long gone.

If I find no one, then my new Cat Genie might be the only one ever returned unopened!

If you don't have one or know someone who does, please no comments. I have been a dedicated LitterMaid user until the the latest model. If you want or need one of these, i have an unopened new model the company doesn't want back! Gave me a refund and said to keep the box. LOL The ONLY other litter box I will consider is the litter Robot. IF it can handle two large Maine Coons!

I hope I get some real answers. This site has gown downhill...

Oh, my one kitty has those tiny poo particles attached by hair. Sounds like a bad thing for the CH, fried poo. Yum

Ug, I sympathize with pool owners now! However can you afford one of these things in CA?? This is all the info I have on the problem, a bit long... sorry!

I am paying an absurd extra amount of money to rent a house with a pool and spa. I mean I now know I'm paying over $600 more for a house with a pool than the similar house next door without!? Not knowing better, and with only one week to find a place, I must eat my own mistake and burn good money. The landlord is the ultimate cheap skate and neighbors had to put a lean on this property because she wouldn't fix the rotted joint privacy Fence. This is mandatory, let alone all the other needed repairs, especially a broken spa heater that in now 4 months she hasn't fixed, but instead driven the pool guy to quit by not paying him for trying to keep the stuff out of this pool. We pay her to pay him. <sigh> All because my DH thought it would help my illness to have a warm spa. :-(

The evil pool (worst the pool guy ever say) is in the shade of 5 CA Pepper trees which the LL won't cut down. I'm new to this climate, but since I've been here, I can't see how any idiot could be suckered into believe these trees are evergreens and good for pool shade! Anyway, there is sun for 4 early morning hours on this thing. Very uninviting so far. All winter, a neighbor warned me, dead pepper tree leaves fall in each day in high winds that never end. Spring..... first the greens blossoms, then the weak dead leaves, green leaves, and I thought seeds or husks. Now, STILL dropping dead leaves, like a shedding cat, and now these hard greed peppercorn fruits, millions of them, will be falling in a few weeks. Rain or shine, this thing can't even be controlled with 3 times daily cleanings which I refuse to do all winter too. I'm disabled and can't keep it up. Left for even a day, the pumps clog and baskets split, the pumps sound like air compressors gone wild in the middle of the night. It's an evil monster!! Anyway, the absurd cold pool was once painted dark blue too. The paint is bleached to spots and streaks. The worse feature besides being under the pepper trees and shade, is the shape of a triangle (@24' by 24' at least) with a 12' round deep end on the point, barrier than 9' useless spa. If I were to buy a cover, the length is 36' by 24W, but sliced in some space age shape, or Egyptian symbol fallen over. A wasted of half a cover!

The picture I try to paint is this is a rental house I care nothing about and plan to leave in a year. Think jury rigging, homemade, scrap... just as long as the solution works and I can do it. :-)

I can't get rid of the trees. I can't afford an expensive cover since I'm out of this place when the year lease is up. Not to mention, how does one get a cover for such a shaped pool? The pool came with no cover or anything for cleaning than the basics. I'd drain the thing and ignore it if it was allowed in CA. :-(

I need any reasonable suggestions people have for keeping the crud from the pool mall year round. Leaf nets it seems have to go over winter covers?? Plus cost a lot... I had thought I found hang it under the silly trees and run the other side to the house for a complete back yard cover.LOL I don't know why one costs so much anyway. Seems there would be a summer version or something!

Solar covers are also something that I could leave on that water all year. I'm back to the cost and shape again... I wish there was huge spools of scrap bubble wrap about. A triangle and circle might do, but I find no options.

OK.... let me know what you all come up with! Hope this makes sense. I'm sick and doing my best to make sense!

J

Hey all... I'm taking my gelding on a riding trip to the beach in 2 weeks. It's 5 hours in the trailer with a mare I'm picking up. There's no head divider...

Today, a mare in season was tied across from him. She was nickering and winking at him and trying to get to him. He noticed and responded the same and let it all hang out to show off. I gave him some food, and he ignored her while displaying himself still. No problem. He normally is not studdy. We passed a few other mare and rode with some this week with no issues. However when one is in heat or near to, he gets studdy. When a mare pees on that ride he';s VERY interested. When one poos in the hall, he stops yo sniff and ignores the rider til he's done. Nothing that's concerned me, except for the one tie two years ago I was riding behind a mare that went into heat. He was a handful, but responsive to me, despite the lovely passage he was showing off and noises he was making.

Is there a temporary safety supplement for this??

Hi all, I have found a wonderful horse to buy that is everything I have wanted.... except he has a clubbed back foot. Looks like it comes from the pastern. It's an at risk buy from a seller in another country, no guarantees. I will vet him (if I chose him), but the vets in the area are known to switch X-rays with sound horses instead of developing real ones. Ignore the other feet I can fix at home. Farriers don't need a license in Spain and feet are trimmed to match available shoes. These are nice compared to many! (yikes)

So, I would like to know what I could get myself into for an 8 yr horse with a club foot. I don't to spend this huge sum of money and have any chance of lameness in the future, especially since gelding him will make him only valuable to me! If you see anything else odd, please let me know. I need all the info I can get to decide what to do! "Malagueno" Pics (15) http://good-times.webshots.com/album/563066132xuER...

vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFRll6EFEsU

TY!

OK, I feel like i live in a cave. I haven't seen any commercials for any country, let alone the US in many years. Just AFN military programming and hoorah bingo night at the club entertainment. Yippeee!

I never thought I was missing anything until I saw the little donk and clyde commercials. Hell, I'd drink American bear at age 10 if I saw those. How cute!!!

Are there more of these I've missed? Please (try to) send links

Feel free to go back a few years of more... really I've seen nothing.

Thanks!

I'm looking for feedback on this product: http://www.thestableizer.com/

Only from people who have used it, are familiar with it, or are knowledgeable in equine pressure pints/ behavior. I keep an emergency twitch and stud chain on my truck in case of a horse emergency. I really dislike the twitch and have avoided using it when I should have to save people/ horses from injury. I would like to have a safety device handy that can bring even the most frightened injured horse under control so they can be treated or prevented from doing further harm.

This device has many claims of pleasure endorphins or at least calming ones. It looks like a fancy war bridle that uses gum and poll pressure, but might be more humane than a twitch which a horse fears if used once? It even states it can be used as a training aid... (Yeah right) but might be better than alternatives and drugs for clipping and shoeing. If my horse could actually learn that having someone trim his feet= pleasure?? real or not?

I was asked to pass this on, and hope some of you do also.!

2 young Andalusians, gray, stolen from Houston, TX along with a new three horse slant trailer. Both horses are microchipped.

http://www.dressage.com/photoads/CurrentAds/1207/s...

Has anyone ever recovered a stolen horse before???

I've been riding for over 30 years with almost as many trainers and teacher.... yet the answer of which way to shift my weight to get the correct canter lead is 50/50. Even the horses I have ridden seem to know it one way or another. Confusing!

What do other teachers and trainers out there think of this? Which is better and why?

Here's the various reasons i've been giving for each way (I'm sure there's more of them too!)::

Shift weight to the outside either to free the inside lead leg and shoulder OR because the horse's outside leg (first leg engage in canter) will be encouraged to step under your weight first... both giving the correct lead for different reasons.

Shift Weight to the inside: To free the outside hind leg to start the canter OR to encourage front leading leg to step under your weight OR to push the horse into the bend.

To further the question, I mus rely on ONLY my weight and seat aids, plus my hands (which I keep quiet) to ensure the correct canter lead! NO LEGS!

Their reply was to repeat online info about Grips and not answer the rest. Can SO here give better help?

I have 2 sep. questions.

A) here is a pic of my front EZ boots. http://pets.webshots.com/photo/2158759220101443917... They are sliding around a lot. Are they too worn to use and need replaced?

B) I need a solution for riding in winter snow/ mud and varied footing on every ride. (50/50% mud/ hard dirt)

Here's my ideas:

1)*Use Easy boot grips for the winter* You said they can't ever be used on hard surfaces because they aren't flexible and can cause injuries. Why? How is this different than normal iron horse shoes?

1) *you said, add studs to my boots? * This concerns me because it creates 4 hoof pressure points on HUGE studs. How is this better for the horse on hard surfaces than EZ Grips

2) *add plastic shoes to my boots: *People in my barn and my farrier have bolted and glued plastic shoes (1" thick) to their easy boots. Makes them thicker than the grips.

Which is best?

I have a 7yr Lusitano, rescued from Portugal with unknown history. He has scars down and around one hind leg, from a fence or having his leg tied. Originally, he was afraid of EVERYTHING.

After 11 months, he trusts me enough to let me do just about anything (except shoes) from the ground. I can use whips of different shapes and sizes for ground training and even use a plastic bag on the end or huge flag to touch him all over.

When I get in the saddle, these are no longer OK. I can carry a short whip on long trail rides on a loose rein or rub him all over with it while we stand still.

The minute I make any small contact with the bit (I ride classical dressage with very light contact) while holding even an 8" long twig, he panics. His head comes up into self carriage, but a nervous one, ears go back to wherever that stick is, even if it's in my shirt, and he goes into some version of a nervous Piaffe or passage, but double time. Does not run away.

New Ideas to take him past this?