| User | Comment |
|---|
Matty    |
But I only went horse-back riding a handful of times. |
bill  |
They gave me the slow, old, nice horse. I could barely get it to move. |
Galomorro   |
No but it wasn't easy just to get up ON one the one time I tried to ride one. I didn't care for the experience. |
| Melf |
No, but I want to learn how to ride a horse. Animals as transport is a mint idea. |
| Crayons | | (reply to Melf) posted 4-Aug-2008 3:38pm |
For some reason I feel sorry for horses. |
| Melf | | (reply to Crayons) posted 4-Aug-2008 3:40pm |
They get a better deal than sheep and cows 
We don't want to eat them, or steal their breast milk, or force them to have babies. We just want to ride em a bit. Rest of the time they're in a big field.
I get it's not the most animal friendly thing to do, though. |
| dab |
For some reason it was spooked by a lawn chair as we went by and the horse jumped sideways. |
| Jody |
Yes, I did, but luckily it was walking. A friend of mine had a horse and she told me to try riding it (bareback). I just kind of gracefully slid to the ground at one point. |
| Enheduanna |
No. I've come pretty close though. |
| ihatespiders | | posted 4-Aug-2008 10:14pm |
Yes, when I put a satttle on a horse for the first time. The satle was too loose and it slid under ths horse's belly. |
| labjog |
Yes, many times. Also had the top of my foot skinned because I was foolishly grooming my horse barefoot when I was a kid. |
| jettles | | posted 5-Aug-2008 11:45am |
but a good friend of my partner's did recently and she rupture her spleen, had a pneumothorax(dropped a lung), 5-6 fractured ribs, and out of work for 6 weeks. no horse riding for 4-6months. and a coworker of mine was run into a fence when her horse was spooked last year and she broke her lower leg in 3 places, surgery and out of work for 6 months....... me---"frightened of horses!" |
| aquawolfy |
nope not yet... |
| Cain |
Yes, many times. But only one serious accident. The horse put his foot down a rabbit hole, I fell off and the horse came down on top of me, landing on my head. Half of my face was bruised for weeks. |
| romkey |
I have never climbed onto a horse, so no. |
| romkey |
I did ride an elephant once, though. I did not fall off. |
| JohnCD | | posted 9-Aug-2008 11:57pm |
Yes I did while the horse was running due to the saddle not being secured correctly. It was twenty years ago and I was very fortunate not to break any bones or get seriously injured. |
| JohnCD | | (reply to Cain) posted 9-Aug-2008 11:59pm |
> Yes, many times. But only one serious accident. The horse put his
> foot down a rabbit hole, I fell off and the horse came down on top
> of me, landing on my head. Half of my face was bruised for weeks.
You're lucky you didn't get seriously injured. |
| Cain | | (reply to JohnCD) posted 10-Aug-2008 12:24pm |
This is true - but I was a kid and children bounce back from all sorts. |
| they | | posted 11-Aug-2008 10:44pm |
Just the wagon. |
| JohnCD | | (reply to Cain) posted 13-Aug-2008 1:21am |
> This is true - but I was a kid and children bounce back from all sorts.
Children definitely bounce back well. I wasn't a kid, but I was 20 years old when I fell of a horse while it was running. I was lucky as well and only suffered some minor bruises. |
cloudhugger  | | posted 21-Aug-2008 6:06pm |
No, I have not. I don't understand how anyone could, although I have several clients who fall off of them reguarly. they ride alot. |
| JessicaWoman99 | | posted 21-Aug-2008 9:46pm |
No never have fallen off a horse |
soyring1  | | posted 25-Oct-2008 4:52pm |
i don't ride horses |
