WILSON!
I had grand plans to ride Gentry this morning. My farrier was scheduled to come at 8:30am, Junior is at preschool for the morning, the ground has dried out pretty well to make it safe, and the forecast high was 50ºF! Then I woke up to a wind tunnel. Seriously crazy wind today. Now, if I had a horse in serious training and a nice dry sand footed arena, I would totally still ride despite the wind. But I have none of those things, which equates to "I don't HAVE to ride, so I'm not GONNA". Bummer.
What did I do instead? I did some work, and checked Facebook. For some reason I found myself lurking on Gentry's breeder's facebook page. We aren't FB friends, but most of her stuff is public, so I thought I'd go way back and see if there were any baby Gentry posts. Not so much. However I did find a post on her page from another gal who own's Gentry's full brother, who I believe is one year younger than Gentry.
Everyone, I give you Wilson!
OMG! I could just die. Clearly they have different coat colors, but otherwise they look so much alike in build and expression. All the info I have about him I found on this website months ago, before today's FB discovery. http://horseonsale.com/horse/6681/. Immediately I realized it was the same horse.
So now I am at a social media cross roads. Wilson also lives in Montana and it would be fun to meet him at a show in the future. Do I friend his owner? Should I friend Gentry's breeder? I don't generally friend people I haven't met, so I'm thinking no...that would be weird and creepy. Maybe I will just wait and message them both when I have Gentry entered in his first show, incase either will be attending. That is less creepy right?
Happy trails and swooshing tails!
•Renee•
What did I do instead? I did some work, and checked Facebook. For some reason I found myself lurking on Gentry's breeder's facebook page. We aren't FB friends, but most of her stuff is public, so I thought I'd go way back and see if there were any baby Gentry posts. Not so much. However I did find a post on her page from another gal who own's Gentry's full brother, who I believe is one year younger than Gentry.
Everyone, I give you Wilson!
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| As a two year old - sale photo |
OMG! I could just die. Clearly they have different coat colors, but otherwise they look so much alike in build and expression. All the info I have about him I found on this website months ago, before today's FB discovery. http://horseonsale.com/horse/6681/. Immediately I realized it was the same horse.
So now I am at a social media cross roads. Wilson also lives in Montana and it would be fun to meet him at a show in the future. Do I friend his owner? Should I friend Gentry's breeder? I don't generally friend people I haven't met, so I'm thinking no...that would be weird and creepy. Maybe I will just wait and message them both when I have Gentry entered in his first show, incase either will be attending. That is less creepy right?
Happy trails and swooshing tails!
•Renee•
Oh he's cute!
ReplyDeletei say go for it - why not? the worst they do is ignore the request... and it's not creepy when there are handsome horses like Wilson and Gentry involved ;)
ReplyDeleteWilson is so super adorable! I'm facebook friends with people who own siblings of Emi. It's fun!
ReplyDeleteI say do it!! I'm friends with someone who owns Chrome's half brother and I've never met her. Just send a message with the request explaining how your horses are related. I ignore requests from people I don't know if there is no message. Gentry's brother is gorgeous. There is definitely a family resemblance!
ReplyDeleteSo... I totally friended Miles' old owners on Facebook even though I'd never met them. I sent them a friend request and once they accepted I sent a message basically asking if they knew Miles. Both were SUPER nice and talked to me... so I guess I didn't creep them out too much!! Haha
ReplyDeleteFriend them both! I would love to be friends with anyone that had a half or full sibling to my horse!
ReplyDeleteI friend requested the owner of Riva's full brother - and she accepted :) It has been fun to watch videos of him and see all the similarities between the two of them!
ReplyDeleteI friend all my horses siblings owners if I find them lol!
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