Horse Doctor & Love Thursday
October 15, 2009 by Puna
Filed under Horses, Signatures
If the girl doesn’t become a horse doctor I’ll be surprised. Actually I won’t be surprised because I know that teenage occupational goals tend to be based on emotion rather than practicality and can be fleeting.
A horse can become lame for many reasons but a couple of weeks ago, Joker becomes lame from thrush.
“Her feet hurt,” the girl says.
She lifts up the hoof, scraps out the dirt…
…and puts on healing medicine.
I thought, “She knows how to do this?”
And to watch her do it with such confidence makes me proud. Especially since I don’t have the same tendency to love horses like the girl does. Joker will take any chance she gets to head butt me and slobber on my pants. I think she knows she can intimidate me.
But not the girl, you can’t be scared if you are going to be a horse doctor.
Doing what you love for a living. That’s the way it should be…
Happy Love Thursday.
And having a natural talent and passion for something is a true gift …. your girl is very lucky.
Puna, My daughter fell in love with horses too, worked for a teriffic (female) equine vet through high school, and now is finnishing up her last year of vet school. That love can run deeper than you can imagine. If she wants to talk to Marianne, let me know, and sometime during Christams break, or agfter graduation, we can arrange it. Your photos capture that love and care. KB
Your girl is so lucky to have the opportunity to surround herself with and spend time doing what she loves. The confidence she’ll get from it will stay with her a loooooong time. She is lucky to have a mama who supports her passion…despite the slobber and head butts.
She has a Daddy who supports her too!
And I’m very proud of her.
Great pictures. She really is professional, isn’t she?! The converse sneakers (my first tennis shoe love!) and that hoof make me a tad nervous. What if that hoof comes down on those toes?? I suppose she would wear that like a badge of honor!
When it falls together like that…the love, the temperment, the know how…its a gift…how wonderful she’s got it so early in life…
Puna, I love these photos of your girl taking care of her horse. (My girl has the same sneakers and the hair elastic around her wrist!)