Horse Aholics

["Robyn Levash" <questarabians@inreach.com>]

Hello,
  I AM a horse-aholic. I would like to welcome all
  of you to this month's online meeting of Horse
  Aholics Anonymous. You may be sitting there
  thinking that you are OK, and don't really need
  any help.  It is not easy to realize that you are a
  horse-aholic, and even harder to bring yourself
  to an HA meeting for help. HA is here to assist
  you. I have some questions to ask to try to
  determine if you can be helped.
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  1. Can you say 'sheath' in public without
  blushing?
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  2. Do you know exactly what 'snaffle' means? (No,
  it is not a drink!)
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  3. Do you drive a truck with some type of towing
  package and/or dual rear wheel when everyone else
  you know drives a real car?
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  4. Do you have more than one type of trailer
  because you own horses?
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  5. Do you spend your holidays going to rides, shows,
  sales, clinics, and seminars when everyone else
  goes on cruises?
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  6. Do you discuss things at the dinner table that
  would make a doctor leave in disgust?
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  7. Do you consider formal wear clean jeans and
  freshly scraped boots?
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  8. Does the inside of your home look like your
  interior decorator is 'State Line Tack'?
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  9. Do you often have barn boots on your front
  porch?
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  10. Is your mail made up primarily of breed
  magazines and horse catalogs?
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  11. Do your shirt pockets often contain bits of
  feed, hay, and empty syringe covers?
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  12. Do you worry about paying your monthly feed
  bill before you think of paying your electric bill?
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  13. When you meet a person, do you ask how many
  horses they have, and pity them if the answer is
  none?
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  14. Do you remember the name of a
  great-great-great grandsire when you can't
  remember your own Great grandfather's name?
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  15. Is your primary dream in life to breed the
  perfect foal?
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  16. Do you find non-horse people boring?
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  17. Is 99% of your e-mail about horses?
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  18. Do you have a collection of bits even larger
  than your collection of horses?
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  19. Does you halter collection include more than
  four foal halters, all the same size?
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  20. Do you know more than five people this list
  fits exactly?
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  If you answered YES to three of these questions,
  you are in pretty good shape. You will lead a long,
  dull life, and never call your mother and tell her "I'm
  in the hospital, but everything is fine!  The horse is ok."
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  If you answered YES to 10, you are in serious
  trouble. Give in gracefully, and become a member
  of Horse-Aholics Anonymous now... You will qualify
  eventually anyway.
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  If you answered YES to 15 or more, you are
  incurable.
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  My advice to those who, like me, are incurable is
  as follows.....
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  Sit back, smile, read your email, and know that
  your life will always be filled with good friends
  and better horses, and it will never be boring.