One Year Blogging Anniversary for Grandma and her Arabian Horses

Today is my one year anniversary blogging on blogger. Although I didn't get a post of up every single day, I came close, with my total number of posts being 337.

From the start I've had some other horse bloggers who were there encouraging me. So I would like to thank those first visitors Learning Horses and Dressage Mom and ProPhoto By Lori who have been here from the beginning of this new career of mine. If you haven't already, stop by and pay their blogs a visit.

You can thank Lori for the pictures. From her very first comment she was asking me to post pictures of my Arabian horses. I think it was her push that finally got me adding images to my posts.

The very first post I started off in this blogging adventure was Trash Talking Arabian Horses I'm still pretty proud of this post. It speaks loudly to who I am and my mission here. Nothing makes me crazier than people putting down the breed of horses that I love. Particularly when they don't really know that much about them. Prejudice and ignorance don't really have an appropriate place in this world, if you ask me.

Learning Horses had a point in her comment on that post. Many horse folks are never exposed to the sensitivity of a hot blooded horse, so the alertness, the energy, the true spirit are seen as 'dangerous' and 'anti-horse', but the truth of the matter is, if they could learn to expand their horizons there would be so many horses open to them. And, they wouldn't have to wear spurs nearly as much! hehe. :)

I have always been loyal to the Arabian horse, ever since I can first remember. As some of you know, I was abused as a child and that abuse led to a dark depression that almost swallowed me whole. My first Arabian horse, Scandalous helped to free me from that depression. Granted I had to do some pretty intensive therapy but the way that Scandalous fed my soul no clinical therapy could ever have provided.The emotional connection between that mare and I literally gave me back my life.

I rely on that unique bond that Arabian horses have for humans to keep me centered. I have faced some of the biggest challenges in life with an Arabian horse at my side to guide me. I can't imagine a day in my life without an Arabian horse to share my dreams and sorrows with. I hope I never have to.

I feel so indebted to the Arabian horse that I put a lot of effort into educating people about this special breed. Not just here on the internet but in other activities as well. I am committed to the Arabian horse. There is nothing I would like more than to have that prejudice against Arabian horses shrivel up and die except to see the breed treated better by human beings.

I have taken a lot of flack for posting about training abuses. I will continue to do so in the future. I can defend myself, the Arabian horse cannot. So I will continue to be their champion. Hopefully, along the way, some closed minded people will finally see the light, open up their minds and find a better way to train these animals, and all horses for that matter.

I love sharing the stories of what these special horses mean to me knowing that by doing so I am breaking down the walls of ignorance that have been perpetuated against the Arabian horse. There is no horse as personable or endearing as the Arabian horse.

Bred by the Bedouins and even harbored in their tents, these horses have come over the centuries to be like no other with their unique ability to connect emotionally with man. Selected for their dispositions and their loyalty as well as their athletic ability, the Bedouins entrusted their very survival to the Arabian horse. These horses would give their lives for their masters and some did.

While Arabian horses are known and by some criticized for their incredible spirit, that is only one dynamic that makes them so different from other horses. Arabian horses are very sensitive and caring. They pick up on the feelings of those around them, humans and horses, almost like they have developed an extra sense.
Arabian horses are also very expressive. Looking at their faces you can read what goes on in their minds. They have the most expressive faces of any breed of horse. I swear you can see brows wrinkled up in a question or raised in disbelief. That and a whole other range of emotions can be read on the face of an Arabian horse.

I love the soft expressive eye as I train an Arabian horse. It tells me that horse is trying or it tells me the horse is confused. Whatever it tells me, it helps to guide me in finding a way to train this horse. I count on it. In the show ring, it tells the judge of the special bond between us and sets us apart from others who have not worked to establish this commitment.

To this day there is nothing more rewarding to me that to go the the barn after a hard day, only to have my Arabian horse hang his/her head over my shoulder and commiserate with me. Just knowing that my horse knows I had a bad day and cares, makes me feel better. What more can you ask for than that?

I've been told that I have an unusual amount of passion for the Arabian horse. Even knowing my story with Scandalous doesn't seem to answer why that is for some. So have you ever wondered where such passion comes from? What drives me to such extents in protection of this horse. Is there another story?


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