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Ana Maria Padurean

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Re: FLICKA FRIDAY PROFILE OF THE DAY ~ 02-08-2008
2/8/2008 2:29:54 PM
Hello Amanda :-)

Thank you for your reply and interest! It is much difficult for me to tell you (shortly) how things are with this respect over here.

Let's see: there are many horses in Romania in the countryside and they are used by peasants for transportation and even working the ground mainly in the mountains! Yet there are only very few in towns and citys. People are not yet as rich to be able to have such as horses for pets! To rent a hors by hour is as expensive that we cannot afford; they are for tourists from abroad!
When my grandparents were still alive and living at the country, while being a little kid, they had two wonderful horses; that is when I've been close to a horse last time (I mean touching distance), and that was somewhere back in ... OMG, 1964 or so! LOL

Thank you for giving me the chance to remember these things, long lost in my memory!

Hugs with friendship,
Anamaria


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Re: FLICKA FRIDAY PROFILE OF THE DAY ~ 02-08-2008
2/8/2008 2:51:42 PM

Hi Amanda

Naturally it is for us to put our species before the other.Mother by her instinct protects her young ones,human or animal-very similar.

Unfortunately in many cases our animals are better friends from people!

Was your dog ever angry on you?Did your horse kick out barn door when he/she saw you?I had never seen such case.All my life I had dogs and cats.Some of my close friends had horses and I had never seen an angry horse.Tell me about it.

Have a good weekend.

 

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Amanda Martin-Shaver

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Re: FLICKA FRIDAY PROFILE OF THE DAY ~ 02-08-2008
2/8/2008 3:01:48 PM
Hi again Anamaria,

I think I understand in the cities there is not the
pasture to keep a horse and if you do not know anyone
in the country areas or a Petting Zoo anywhere near you live then it would be difficult to get to meet a horse in person.

Back in New Zealand there are quite a number of
farmers that have a horse or two grazing yet they do
not ride them much anymore because it is inconvenient for them to catch, saddle and bridle to ride out and
ride over their farms when a farm motorbike, 3 wheeler
or quad (4 wheel bike) is much easier to start up and
do the job. - every farmer has a farm bike.

I always found this to be such a shame as horses are much quieter to ride around ewes with their lambs to check up on them and horses can go up and down hills and if they are trained jump over fences than riding noisy bikes around the ewes that scares them and
scatters the lambs away from their mothers.

I kinda like the old ways and I see that horses here in the rural areas of US are not redundant like they are back in NZ. There are still lots of horse riders and trainers here and the rodeos are big business, whereby rodeos back in NZ are few and far between.

Amanda



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Re: FLICKA FRIDAY PROFILE OF THE DAY ~ 02-08-2008
2/8/2008 3:15:08 PM
Hello Stephen, having a flika day are you!!! Hahaha.... I haven't seen the new Flika movie, but I sure liked the original when I was a boy.  I've always had horses until the last few years.  There is a joy in owning, caring for and riding horses.  And today, you picked  one fine lady who has those pleasures in her life.  Thanks! ~ Joe

Have you hugged your horse today?

Hi Amanda,

I sure hope you and hubby are doing well.  It is always a sweet reminder of those good things in life  when ever I see your profile photo. LOL!!! I love horses too!  Ah heck, I don't just hug horses too.  You know there is a hug coming for you!

Congratulations for POTD!

Joe



OH BY THE WAY EVERYONE!!!!!

Have you sent Amanda a HUG yet?



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Re: FLICKA FRIDAY PROFILE OF THE DAY ~ 02-08-2008
2/8/2008 3:57:37 PM
Congrats to Amanda!
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