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oh bother!!

 

Why don't we all outfit our horses with those "poop bags" the city carriage horses use....then they can have compost piles at the trail heads that the city folks can avail themselves of for their roses....

 

Ranelle

 

 

 

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 -----Original Message-----
From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Maryanne Gabbani
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 9:18 AM
To: Barbara McCrary
Cc: Ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Vallonelee@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [RC] LTE - Tucson Citizen this morning

> Or, the handles could be longer 
>   and you could initiate the new sport of horse-apple 
>   polo......
>
> Maryanne
>
> On Feb 1, 2005, at 6:40 PM, Barbara McCrary 
>   wrote:
>
> > The 
> >     only solution I can think of is for riders to carry mini-lawn-rakes with 
> >     very short handles, available at garden supply centers. The rider dismounts 
> >     and rakes the pile off the trail into the brush, or whatever vegetation is 
> >     alongside the trail.  I guess some people just aren't used to horse 
> >     turds, but in my opinion, since horses are vegetarians, their turds 
> >     smell a lot more acceptable than do dogs'. There is something about the scat 
> >     of meat-eaters that is not very pleasant.
> >  
> > Barbara