It’s a shame I’m broke and my husband’s allergic to horses. He sounds like a sweetie.
OOOh, my boss has two horses…I’m sure she’d love a third! He sounds just adorable. And she has working dogs who are too smart for their own good, and misses her big, dumb dog who passed…this horse sounds like a great compromise!
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Nope, no chance at all. The cheapest boarding I’ve found is $275/month, and that doesn’t include farrier, vet, supplies, etc. It’s going to be at least a year before I can half-way consider buying. It sucks. He’s the right size, color, personality, everything.
Based on the content that ad (rambling, no paragraphs, run-on sentences, etc.), and the fact that he bought the horse without apparently doing anything to determine his suitability for the planned use, … I don’t think this horse is the only one at that stable who could be described as “dumb as a stone”.
But given the effort the owner is going through to honestly find a suitable home, I guess you could also say he has WONDERFUL manners, and is a doll’, too.
Maybe that old adage about people and their pets resembling each other applies here!
In the seller’s defense, the horse was trained on a basic level, and you can’t tell what they will be like mentally until you’ve owned them a while. So she took a risk on a cheap horse with a good temperment, and it didn’t pan out. Let me tell you, in the annals of horse ownership, this barely scrapes the surface of human stupidity.
It’s funny, a horse that has no brain turned on inside seems so cute and biddable but it can be scary at times. I knew a horse that would just run full tilt into things (a tree, a fence, another horse…) unless you specifically directed him not to.
And compared to most ads on Craigslist, the author is a Rhodes scholar. She actually uses punctuation!
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i love craigs list ads that read like this i have an item for sale in good condition few minor dents works good… PLZ CALL NO EMAILS!!! $400 obo ask for craig
Sent copy of ad to my horse-loving sister on the other side of the Mitten.
As much as I would like it to be, adeptness at writing is not a sole or even necessary indicator of intelligence. Someone who can toss out “asking him to run a pole pattern (with 12+ flying changes) is a monumental task that I think would end with him needing a psychotherapist” as a joke is all right in my book.
Crrrraaaap. And in my area code too. (I don’t have any fences. )
This is why my kids are NOT on the Dope.
Sounds like a sweetheart of a pasture horse.
He’s a beauty. If only all horses are like 1000 pound dogs. that can’t stay in the house and cost alot more for vet and food.
I do like the write up though. Plain spoken and very honest.
Should this non-horseperson ask what “had his teeth floated” and “had a Power-Pac done” mean? Both sound scary, especially the Power-Pac. Which orifice does the hose go in for that?
Shirley Ujest - But Mo…oo…om!!! 
paperbackwriter - “floating” is filing down the sharp edges on horse’s molars. It makes their chewing much easier and painless. “Power-pak” is a oral worming regimen to get rid of parasites. You use a wormer for 5 days in a row, which pretty much cleans them out.
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He does sound like the horse version of my family’s sadly departed dumb-as-dirt Golden, except for the lack of extreme storm anxiety. Awwww. I’d love to pet him and fuss over him and feed him apples or something.
I hope they find him lovely people who love on him, because he sounds like a sweet animal and fun to have around.
He sounds like a perfect beginner horse for some little girl. I hope he finds a really good home. I grew up around horses, my sister has showed Hunter-Jumper for decades (showed? Done horse shows, shown? help me out here…I’m tired :D). She literally started before she could walk, (well both of us did) as my mom loves horses also. She would sit us on the saddle in front of her and take off down the trail.
With my sister it stuck, she still shows now and she’s 46. I do love them, but I haven’t ridden regularly since my teens.
Aww, shoot, the ad is down. I was hoping to hear the happy ending.
“lawn ornament” 
Me too! Think it could be found via the Wayback Machine?
ETA: Tried it; ad was too new to be found there:
EddyTeddyFreddy - I could probably look up the real phone number, if you like. If you want to call and find out what happened.
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ETF - Nevermind - I thought I e-mailed the original (without the phone number changed) and it would be in my sent mail, but I changed it there, too.
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Um…I printed it out to show my boss and all my friends if you need to know something from the ad.