This page is called dreams can come true! (I could also call it the blond who stole my heart! *LOL*) This is my Palomino Quarter Horse, Cody. (I like to call him Mister Cody, because he looks & sometimes acts like Mister Ed -- the talking horse on the told TV show.) My lifelong dream of owning a horse was fulfilled on October 17, 2003 when he officially became mine. I rode him for my 6th (second to last) Western lesson and within 5 minutes knew he was perfect for me! I'm not sure of his exact age -- he was between 15-18 years old at the time. He stands at 15.2 hands tall. His nicknames are Code, Codes, Codybear, and sometimes Nosy. The first several months of horse owning were pretty bumpy, thanks to a poorly fitting saddle that I wasn't aware of. My previous 15+ years of riding couldn't have prepared me for that! We slowly worked through the problems, and within a few months everything was back to normal. The first winter I owned Cody, he was spooking fairly frequently. I think he started to trust me more after that, because our second winter together he only spooked a couple times. He started having a problem with the stifle joint in his right hind leg the summer of 2004. (It's not a true stifle lock problem -- it just sort of "sticks" every so often.) He also developed stiff joints due to a touch of arthritis a few years later. I've tried several different joint supplements, but haven't found one that makes him comfortable enough so that he isn't tripping when trotting & cantering. Needless to say, he's become useless as a riding horse because of that. I won't ride him on the trail anymore, because of something that happened out there that destroyed my confidence for riding outside of an enclosed area. Another way he's become useless for me as a riding horse is his unpredictable nervousness. He doesn't spook often -- just acts nervous, or sometimes very nervous. I should be able to handle that with all my years of riding experience, but he just makes me too nervous. I've gotten too frustrated to try riding anymore. I longe him for about 10 minutes sometimes for exercise, and other times I just take him for a walk on the trail. Click here to visit Cody's gallery. HOME
This page is called dreams can come true! (I could also call it the blond who stole my heart! *LOL*) This is my Palomino Quarter Horse, Cody. (I like to call him Mister Cody, because he looks & sometimes acts like Mister Ed -- the talking horse on the told TV show.) My lifelong dream of owning a horse was fulfilled on October 17, 2003 when he officially became mine. I rode him for my 6th (second to last) Western lesson and within 5 minutes knew he was perfect for me! I'm not sure of his exact age -- he was between 15-18 years old at the time. He stands at 15.2 hands tall. His nicknames are Code, Codes, Codybear, and sometimes Nosy. The first several months of horse owning were pretty bumpy, thanks to a poorly fitting saddle that I wasn't aware of. My previous 15+ years of riding couldn't have prepared me for that! We slowly worked through the problems, and within a few months everything was back to normal. The first winter I owned Cody, he was spooking fairly frequently. I think he started to trust me more after that, because our second winter together he only spooked a couple times. He started having a problem with the stifle joint in his right hind leg the summer of 2004. (It's not a true stifle lock problem -- it just sort of "sticks" every so often.) He also developed stiff joints due to a touch of arthritis a few years later. I've tried several different joint supplements, but haven't found one that makes him comfortable enough so that he isn't tripping when trotting & cantering. Needless to say, he's become useless as a riding horse because of that. I won't ride him on the trail anymore, because of something that happened out there that destroyed my confidence for riding outside of an enclosed area. Another way he's become useless for me as a riding horse is his unpredictable nervousness. He doesn't spook often -- just acts nervous, or sometimes very nervous. I should be able to handle that with all my years of riding experience, but he just makes me too nervous. I've gotten too frustrated to try riding anymore. I longe him for about 10 minutes sometimes for exercise, and other times I just take him for a walk on the trail.