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| Name: |
Dancer
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Age: |
Eighteen years old
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| Gender: |
Male
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Kind: |
Palomino mix
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| Home: |
British Columbia, Canada
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Dancer
was the product of an interesting breeding of his Palomino dad, Boss,
and his Thoroughbred/Arab mother, Jet's July. His owner, Bob, was a true
cowboy to the bone, and had a sweet city girl partner, Lila, later in life.
In all his years of owning Dancer, for some reason he didn't get to saddle
breaking him, he was still an intact Stallion so he could be rather cheeky
when given the opportunity.
Unfortunately as years passed by, Bob's health declined and he passed away in
the 2014 New Year. Lila was left in charge of a rowdy horse that she knew
nothing about, and was partly terrified of. She spent months talking to
people and trying to find a home for him, more than once she was told to have
him put down, he's a killer and a waste of money.
Six degrees of separation is the theory that everyone and everything is six
or fewer steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person in the
world, so that a chain of "a friend of a friend" statements can be made to
connect any two people in a maximum of six steps. Lo and behold, Lila has three
daughters, one who works in childcare two cities away from her own. This
woman, works with a friend of mine, and on the off chance that we might be
interested, my friend messaged me one day, asking if I wanted a horse!
We hemmed and hawed for a minute, then decided it would be worth taking a
look. We at that time had no horses, we lived in a basement suite so we would
have to find a place that would board him. We drove out to meet Lila and
Dancer, and quickly fell in love. What a cheeky bugger! Just full of beans!
We saw how much Lila loved Dancer but just didn't have the know how or the
funds to keep a horse as high energy as him. In seventeen years, he had never been
treated by a vet, seen a farrier and had only ever been on a trailer once,
and that was an adventure all on its own!
My husband and I saddle break horses so we weren't too worried that he hadn't
been worked before, we got into his little pen and started lunging him, and
he joined up within minutes. The look of relief on his face was awesome,
"Wow! Someone who speaks horse!" We agreed we would take him, we just needed
to find a place that would let us board a stallion and arrange transportation.
Most boarding barns turned us down, we ended up finding a run down property
that lets us do some work in exchange for dirt cheap boarding costs. A friend
of mine came through and helped with trailer, it only took us a half hour of
uneventful coaxing to get him in, much better than his previous experience ten
years prior, where he nearly killed a couple people and had the trailer
rocking on the axle on the highway!
Dancer today is settling beautifully, we have started his saddle training and
he is taking to it like a duck to water! Lila and her daughters visit often
and spoil him with hand washed apples : )
Here are two videos from the first day we met him:
Dancer: Showing off and
Dancer: practicing Join Up
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