Daily Carrot

I n this cartoon that I found in the NYTimes, farmers look with interest and concern. This 2- seat automobile at the turn of the twentieth century would replace the horse as the predominate means of transport. Harper's Weekly has a humorous side of the differences between horse, and horseless carriage. This cartoon brings a potential "invader" image that automobiles might bring to the countryside.

Well my trainer said it " I don't know what the fanacation of horses is if the child just tosses the horse back in the stall after she rides" and it hit me. When someone pays north of $600.00 a month to board a horse, not including the cost of lessons, apparel, treats and the cost of gas perhaps in just driving to the barn. Then tosse the horse inside the stall after riding for an hour, has to make you wonder. What are the parents thinking? The parents are usually the ones paying for this. In the world of fast and furious why empower the child for that one hour, what are they REALLY learning? The horse is also wondering why am I being asked to work when I'd rather just sit here posing for animal crackers or running in a field with other horses to be tossed aside wet, sweaty with stains of salt on my body, and left to catch a chill.

10/31/2009 : Old North Bridge Halloween Hunter Pace 984 Lowell Rd, Carlisle, Massachusetts Hunter Pace Riders may participate individually or in small groups of up to four riders, over the marked course in Great Brook Farm State Park. Costumes are encouraged, but optional. Contact: Barbara Bjornson tel: 978-369-6469 btbjorn@comcast.net This years Halloween Hunt Pace Event is on the 31st of October.. Hopefully we can duplicate our 1st place ribbon, as we plan on entering this again. I just have to find another black horse to enter with as Beauty is no longer with us. This was a great idea (mine) and a surprise to me that we won!

Oldest Mounted Police Unit In U.S. To Take Their Last RidesBy Steve Brown The sign at the Boston Police Department's mounted horse unit. Their motto: To ride with pride.BOSTON - March 05, 2009 - The Boston Police Department will lay off 40 police cadets and 20 civilian workers in July to help close a $20 million department budget gap.The department says the cuts would be worse, if it weren't for state and federal grant money.As WBUR's Steve Brown reports, the cuts include disbanding the Boston Police Mounted Unit, the oldest police mounted unit in the nation.The mounted officers and their horses have been a familiar sight at Downtown Crossing, and anywhere large crowds are gathered. At one point in the 1970s, during the busing crisis, there were a hundred horses in the unit. Now it's much smaller. Thirteen specially-trained police horses, with names such as Chopper, Captain and Magnus, are boarded in the police stable in Jamaica Plain. Workers at the stable, who spoke

Two horses were found lying on the ground in their paddock's where they had been out all night long. What are people thinking leaving a 43 yr. old and a 29 yr old during one of the worst winters I can remember? The 43 yr old had to be put down due falling on ice and had shattered an elbow. The other was so cold they had to warm it with heating blankets.