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Hello, I AM a horse-aholic . I would like to welcome all of you to this month's online meeting of Horse-Aholics Anonymous. You may be sitting there thinking that you are OK, and don't really need any help. It is not easy to realize that you are a horse-aholic,and even harder to bring yourself to a HA meeting for help. HA is here to assist you. I have some questions to ask to try to determine if you can be helped:

1. Can you say 'sheath' in public without blushing?

2. Do you know exactly what 'snaffle' means? (No, it is not a drink!)

3. Do you drive a truck with some type of towing package and/ordual rear wheel when everyone else you know drives a real car?

4. Do you have more than one type of trailer because you own horses?

5. Do you spend your holidays going to shows, sales, clinics, and seminars when everyone else goes on cruises?

6. Do you discuss things at the dinner table that would make a doctor leave in disgust?

7. Do you consider formal wear clean jeans and freshly scraped boots?

8. Does the inside of your home look like your interior decorator is 'State Line Tack'?

9. Do you often have barn boots on your front porch?

10. Is your mail made up primarily of breed magazines and horse catalogs?

11. Do your shirt pockets often contain bits of feed, hay, and empty syringe covers?

12. Do you worry about paying your monthly feed bill before you think of paying your electric bill?

13. When you meet a person, do you ask how many horses they have, and pity them if the answer is none?

14. Do you remember the name of agreat-great-great grandsire when you can't remember your own Great grandfather's name?

15. Is your primary dream in life to breed the perfect foal?

16. Do you find non-horse people boring?

17. Is 99% of your e-mail about horses?

18. Do you have a collection of bits even larger than your collection of horses?

19. Does you halter collection include more than four foal halters, all the same size?

20. Do you know more than five people this list fits exactly?

If you answered YES to three of these questions, you are in pretty good shape. You will lead a long, dull life, and never call your mother and tell her "I'm in the hospital, but everything is fine!The horse is ok."

If you answered YES to 10, you are in serious trouble. Give in gracefully, and become a memberof Horse-Aholics Anonymous now...You will qualify eventually anyway. If you answered YES to 15 or more, you are incurable. My advice to those who, like me, are incurable is as follows..... Sit back, smile, read your email, and know that your life will always be filled with good friends and better horses, and it will never be boring

1. Can you say 'sheath' in public without blushing?

yes
2. Do you know exactly what 'snaffle' means? (No, it is not a drink!)
yes

3. Do you drive a truck with some type of towing package and/ordual rear wheel when everyone else you know drives a real car?

NO, but yes its parked there just need to get some owrk done to it

4. Do you have more than one type of trailer because you own horses?

NO,not yet

5. Do you spend your holidays going to shows, sales, clinics, and seminars when everyone else goes on cruises?

NO,when i can afford I sure will

6. Do you discuss things at the dinner table that would make a doctor leave in disgust?

Yes god yes

7. Do you consider formal wear clean jeans and freshly scraped boots?

yes

8. Does the inside of your home look like your interior decorator is 'State Line Tack'?
yes

9. Do you often have barn boots on your front porch?

yes ..isn;t that where they belong

10. Is your mail made up primarily of breed magazines and horse catalogs?
yes getting that way I don't count bills

11. Do your shirt pockets often contain bits of feed, hay, and empty syringe covers?

yes.. is there another use for pockets

12. Do you worry about paying your monthly feed bill before you think of paying your electric bill?

yes ...dont we all

13. When you meet a person, do you ask how many horses they have, and pity them if the answer is none?

yes

14. Do you remember the name of agreat-great-great grandsire when you can't remember your own Great grandfather's name?
yes

15. Is your primary dream in life to breed the perfect foal?
yes .. and I have lol

16. Do you find non-horse people boring?

yes they are the worst
17. Is 99% of your e-mail about horses?
yes is there anything else

18. Do you have a collection of bits even larger than your collection of horses?

yes but could use a few more if the truth be told

19. Does you halter collection include more than four foal halters, all the same size?

yes
20. Do you know more than five people this list fits exactly?

yes

Okay every lets share out addiction and see who is the most addicted of us all LOL

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