Why In The Hell Is He Still A Stud??

This is starting to annoy me intensely. I read the CL posts and there are/were many male horses on there still with their hoo-hoos attached. Why IS this?? Some ads even have the cajones (a play on words) to state that the stud is fine around kids and with just a 'little' training, he'd be a good horse for them...or a great trail horse for anyone.

Are you kidding me?? Cut the berries off and leave the twig!! If nothing else that this blog does, please, please do not ever consider a stud colt or horse for a kid. If you are so dumb to think that your horse would never do anything, you need some more horse education, seriously so.

A stud colt is NOT kids or newbie owner material. A gelding or even a mare who's pms-ing is a better candidate by and large. Just to be fair though, there are geldings and mares whose outlook on life is similar to Hannibal Lecters but those are pretty few and far between. At least they aren't thinking with their hormones and that bad attitude is probably more from bad training and handling.

There are a couple of ads up as of last nite, that I'm just amazed. No papers, have never done anything and still a stud horse... Of course, one 'needs a strong hand'. Oh jeepers, I may need some ibuprofen. Actually, if they were both gelded, they look like they'd be decent little saddle horses.

Another to consider, when you even only own a stud horse, your liability goes way up. Especially, nowadays, if your stud gets out and breeds someone's mare or runs over a kid trying to get to the mare, you may lose a lot of what you've worked for. I do know of one case where the neighbor's champ stud went for a midnight stroll and my cousin got an absolutely fabulous filly out of the deal but the owner wouldn't sign the paperwork (see other post for this) and so ended up with a fab-lookin' grade Paint filly. You know, stud comes to 'visit', mare has filly, cousin wants-in lieu of damages-the paperwork to register his 'free' filly and the stud owner won't do it. End of that friendship.

I'm rambling a bit but still, there are way too many other horses out there to consider so you don't have to buy a stud horse for your offspring, or you for that matter. If the owner is too friggin' lazy or cheap to have the vet come out, what else hasn't been taken care of?? Would make me wonder...