
30 Reasons Why Horse People are Crazy
- We ride a 1000 lb animal
- We are willing to live in a barn
- Our horses hair looks better than our own
- We see a “free horse” ad and take him home even though we know better
- Our horses are better dressed than us
- We complain about getting up for work and school but have no problem being at the barn for 5am to feed the horses
- Barn chores are always more fun than house chores
- We spend more money on our horses shoes than our own
- We click or cluck at our other animals when wanting them to move
- We can find hay in almost every piece of clothing
- We have tried horse grain or treats at some point
- We would rather clean stalls then our room
- Our horses see the dentist more often than we do
- On show days we are up before our alarm but when it’s a work day we snooze
- We can speak horse without using a word
- When injured we always ask “when can I get back to riding?”
- Our gym workout includes a pitch fork, a wheelbarrow and a lot of poop
- You own more gum boots then actual shoes
- Any snack eaten at the barn is shared with the horses
- Horse aren’t our whole life but they make our lives whole
- We cannot avoid judging horseback riders in movies on their riding form and their horse
- Hands are dirty but we still eat our lunch before washing
- Spring cleaning consists of hair, hair and more hair
- Even though we’ve been bucked, kicked and stomped on we never give up
- We first check out the horse before we check out the cowboy
- We count in strides rather than feet or meters
- When passing large fields we imagine what it would look like with horses in it
- We’ve all climbed to the top of the sawdust pile just to see if we can sink to the bottom
- We wander through tack stores more than we do at the mall
- We make sweat, mud and sleep deprivation a fashion statement
Comment below with any other thoughts or points you’d like to add to our list, we’d love to hear them. Happy Riding.
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