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- Here's the rest of the September
- installment of the horse diary.
- I am posting it for the author,
- who is the owner of Did,
- a Percheron stallion.@END_FILE_ID.DIZ
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- Today I had a freind over to see Did with me. D liked the farm a whole
- lot. He asked if he could bring his girlfreind over some time. He thinks
- she would enjoy herself quite a bit. Didn't do a whole lot, I just gave
- did some tribessin (his daily dose thereof). I followed this with a quick
- 2 carrot chaser and he kept most of the tribessin in his mouth. In fact,
- he kept all of it in his mouth and didn't make a huge mess out of it.
-
- I then put on the curcingle, long reins, one eared bridle and we did some
- walking and trotting and turning and stepping overing and coming arounding
- and g'ing and hah'ing. He did so well and was so totally unflustered by it
- all that I decided to climb aboard and see how well he would do with leg
- cues. IN fact, the only leg cue I wanted to teach him is the "walk" leg
- cue. I want him to walk when I squeeze him with both legs. As it turns out,
- he did real well ( as opposed to int well?). When I started to squeeze I'd
- say "step up". His verbal cue to start walking. And when he started to walk
- I'd release the pressure. If he kept walking he'd eventually get a pat on
- the neck, if he stopped walking he'd get another squeeze. THe only use I
- gave the reins was to try and keep him walking in a straight line. This
- worked, for the most part. I had a lot of trouble with him starting this
- hyperbolic curve to the gate. Almost as if the gate were the center of some
- locallized, horse-specifc black hole. I'd stop him, pull on the left rein
- and start saying "step over haw" and he'd start swinging around to the
- left. hen he was facing away from the gate I'd give him the walk command
- with the legs and away he'd go, in a nice straight line.
-
- When it was all done, I gave him a hug, a pat and (what I think he actually
- appreciated) a carrot. If only he appreciated blow jobs. I woulda given him
- one of those too!
-
- Monday, September 17,1990-
-
- I didn't get to see did today. Damn. I got caught up working with Dr.
- S's accounting program and didn't get home until 9:30. I called Pam
- and she told me that she gave did his tribessin today. (Not that I thought
- she wouldn't!!) She did it a bit different. She put down some hay, then
- gave did the tribessin over the top of the hay (since he doesn't leave a
- stinking bit of hay on the ground) and then grained him immediately
- afterwards. He ate all the grain and didn't slobber out the tribessin, and
- at $500 for all 32 tubes of the stuff, it's like white gold. I asked Dr.
- X (a co-worker with Dr. S) whether or not the tribessin woul dbe
- able to get into the testicles to wipe out any traces of the bacteria that
- might be in there and he told me that Tribessin is often used because of
- its ability to penetrate most body tissues, including the testicles. Hot
- damn, I might have one fecund (thanks again K!) stud within the next 4
- months! I want to breed him to mares so badly that I can hardly contain
- myself. Well, things are going well withthe business and this month's
- sales are already hitting over 100k so I just might be able to get me a
- microscope. A very usefull tool for any serious semen evaluation, eh?
-
- So why *DO* I like stallions so much? To be righteously honest, it is
- mostly in my background. My upbringing. My experiences. When I was about 7
- or so, I was in a playground on a swingset, some kid asked me one of those
- "choose death if you're not weird" questions. Off the top of his head he
- asks me, "Which would you rather do? Have your mouth tied to a horse's dick
- for a week or slide down a 100 foot razor blade on your ass?" Of course,
- me being ever the practicle thinker (must be why I got a job to design,
- implement and debug an operating system once) chose to have my mouth tied
- to a horse's dick for a week. That way you don't die, right? This, of
- course, caused the older kids much humor. They tried to get me to answer
- other question so the same nature but I left stating "I don't think I want
- to play this game anymore." Well, I read, and where I don't know, a
- report on bestiality stating that it is sometimes based on a deep seated
- anger. A kind of "I'll show them" type of anger. And damn if it doesn't
- fit me! All bad experiences with women just bolstered my commitment to the
- critters. Good experiences with women were fun mind you! But the bad ones
- influenced me more strongly. With all the socio psycho-dynamics (thank you
- D!) that I have experienced that tend to push me to human females for
- sexual gratification, it makes me think that I must have been pretty pissed
- at those kids for making fun of my decision in that play ground to have
- made me ignore all those social cues and choose critters over wymmuhn.
- Hmmmmm. Maybe one day I'll actually organize my thoughts on my past and try
- and come up with a conclusive early psychological profile. It may help in
- understanding why I am the way I am.
-
- I also remember, from when I was about 6, I had a freind named Stanley. He
- was Maxo-strange! I was over at his house playing once when he announced he
- had to pee. SO he went to the bathroom, (right across the hall from his
- room where we were playing) and dropped his drawers around his ankles and
- peed. Laughing all the while. Now I didn't know what to think. But I did
- think it was interesting because I had never thought of the human body as
- aplay thing before. He opened that little world up for me. At another time
- we used to build tent "forts" and we'd get nekkid in em! That was fun. Did
- it help me in choosing stallions? Maybe. Just maybe. Once, this girl whos
- name I cannot remeber went into our fort with us. She used to just "watch".
- One day we demanded reciprocation on her part. We wanted to see what her
- genitals looked like. Well, I distincly remember thinking that it looked
- like some kind of open wound. I was turned off by it immensly. Interested,
- but not at all interested in any kind of sexual way. Nah, Stanley was much
- more interesting. I wonder why. I'll have to think on that a little bit
- more and try and figure out why that was so.
-
-
- Tuesday, September 18,1990-
-
- Saw Did, gave him his tribrissen and some carrots. Brushed him and then
- stared at the huge amounts of mud in the walk in shelter. SHIT! That little
- house is the only place I have that affords suficient privacy during the
- times that I can see that horse, and I can't use it right now! DAMNIT!
-
- Wednesday, September 19,1990-
-
- Couldnt see did today.
-
- Thursday, September 20,1990-
-
- Saw Did today. I gave him his paste and a few carrots. When I was done
- with that, I got out the long reins again and started doing a bit of wor
- with him. When I was done with g'ing and hah'ing I climbed aboard and
- started to try to teach him to move forward when I squeeze my legs around
- him. He got it a few times without any trouble. I'll go at it a few more
- times and get him used to moving forward at a walk when I squeeze with my
- legs. I want to start teaching him those "silent cues". Since he knows
- "step up" and "walk" as being the same thing, I used the verbalizations
- with him to get him to start walking, I'd use leg pressure, then say "walk"
- within a few seconds to get him moving. Seems to be working so far. I'll
- have to keep working at it to make sure he does not forget this lil ole lesson.
-
- Friday, September 20,1990-
-
- Couldn't see Did again. Damn.
-
- Saturday, September 21, 1990-
-
- I spent a few hours with Did today. I gave him his medicine and then a
- few carrots. The next step was not a whole lot of fun, I have started
- treating his hooves for thrush. I picked them all out and then doused each
- one in turn with clorox, chlorine bleach. He really gives me a hard time
- with his rear left hoove. I mean, a REALLY hard time. He kept trying to
- take his foot away from me, but I finally managed to get his foot cleaned
- and bleached. Then I brushed him out real nice and then gave him his
- afternoon hay. I spent the next 1.75 hours just watching him eat his hay.
- He doesn't get too vulgar when eating his hay anymore. :-(
-
- Sunday, September 22,1990-
-
- Pretty much a repeat of yesterday. THis is starting to bother me that I
- can't use the walk in shed. I have to talk to Mike to get him to bring in
- a truck full of bank run. (Hrrrrrrr, a sand and small pebble mixture
- typically used along footers of bank barns in this region of the U.S. for
- drainage. ) That way, I can use the walk in shelter to teach Did some
- TOTALY cool slight of hand (and mouth and tongue and finger and saliva).
-
- I have not taken the time to keep up with the riding lessons (both his and
- mine ;-). I have the horse, but not the time now and it looks like I might
- be going to Spain soon to install a bias cutter. Habla Usted Ingles?
-
- Monday, September 23, 1990-
-
- Saw the bum didio and gave him his Tribrissen (of which he spat out 1/4 a
- tube of :( Stupid horse! That stuff is to get yer balls working again! If
- *THAT* happens, then yer gonna get all sorts of nice, tight, saddle mares
- under yer belly next spring! EAT THAT SHIT! He really is pretty good about
- eating it though. He doesn't seem to spit it all out all the time, just
- once in a while.
-
- Did the ole "cloroxing" today as usual. I had to kick him when he gave me
- SERIOUS quantities of shit about picking up his left hind foot. The big
- boy has GOT to learn.
-
- Teusday, September 24 ->Sunday September 30--
- This is all being done in a post-mortem fashion. I have spent the past two
- weeks feeling worse than I have in a long time. I was watching Did in his
- pasture when I noticed that his ribs seemed to be sticking out a bit. I
- looked, and then got up close and stuck my fingers against his side and I
- noticed that his ribs WERE sticking out. This, of course, started a panic
- on my part. WHat went wrong? What's the problem? I pointed his ribs out
- to Pam and asked her how much Did was getting fed. She said "One and a
- half coffee cans full". Oh, just fucking great. "No, I mean how many POUNDS
- of grain is he getting?", "Oh, that should be about 3 and a half pounds of
- grain per feeding." Okay, Let's weigh it. 1.5 coffee cans on the scale
- showed, sure enough 3.5 pounds. Well, 7 pounds should be doing did fine.
- So I called the vet and he said to give him a grain mix that has 16%
- protein in it. The grain we were using has 12% protein. He also said to up
- it by .5 pounds per feeding. Did should be getting 8 pounds of grain. Okay,
- that's about 1.75 cans full. One week later, he is STILL showing ribs.
- Sooooo, I get a scale that goes up to fifty pounds and is accurate to .02
- pounds. I measure 1.75 coffe cans of grain. Guess what? It came out to 2
- pounds of grain. ONly 2 pounds. All this time and I had been starving my
- horse to death. Man did I feel bad. Soooooooo, I have put him on a program
- to up his grain. He is getting .25 pounds per feeding more per day. so
- yesterday I fed him 2.25 pounds in the morning, and then 2.25 pounds in the
- evening. Today he got 2.5 pounds in the morning and 2.5 pounds in the
- evening. I'll keep upping it until he gets to 8 pounds per day, total. As
- each day has gone by, I have watched his ribs stick out just a wee bit
- more, but today, finally, his ribs started to not stick out so much more,
- or so it seemed. I don't know though....
-
- What do I feel? Guilt. Burning, seething, heaping volumes of guilt unlike
- anything I have ever felt before. I mean, I have felt bad in my life, but
- not this bad. I hate doing things out of stupidity and ignorance. I can
- never do anything good enough. It is what has made me and excellent
- programmer and it is what will make me an excellent horse owner. Always
- stopping and wondering why did such and such occur. Why did this reaction
- happen? and on and on.... It is that one driving thing in my personality
- that makes me what I am. But now, I am feeling better. That nasty, anal
- retentive quality of my personality, the one that never beleives a damn
- thing anyone tells me has come to my rescue. It made me get a an
- electronic scale accurate to .02 pounds to measure Did's feed. Once we
- have him up to 8 pounds, then we can go back to coffee-can-itis and not
- worry too much. At least then he'll be getting the right number of coffee
- cans.
-
- In other smaller news, I managed, after getting some kind of grip on his
- feeding schedule, to get him bitted up for a short bare-back ride around
- the hay fielsd. He is damn nice horse to ride. A wonderfull big back
- and... well, more on this in the october report. Suffice to say, that I
- feel better about asking him for ... other things now.
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