Alyssa Knee offers a horse owner’s perspective of the ups, downs and real work of horse ownership. Her article provides good perspective for animal health pros who have never owned or worked with horses.
Source: Horse Network, November 16, 2017.
It’s a roller coaster of emotions, explains Knee. The kind that you get on willingly, but then realize you can never get off. It’s highs when you teach them something new, or when you finally win that ribbon after all the hard work you’ve done. It’s lows when they get injured or when they get sick…and it’s extreme lows when you eventually get the bills.