Return to Questions and Answers IndexQ&A Questions and Answers: QUESTION: My daughter is a horse lover. I hope you can help me with a couple of questions she asked me yesterday! Do horses cry? Do they have tears? Do horses talk to each other? M. T. ANSWER: Wow! Your daughter sure asks some interesting — […]
Return to Questions and Answers IndexQ&A Questions and Answers: QUESTION: Hi Bob – Will a horse get to know me and my riding style once I start taking lessons — even if that horse belongs to someone else and gives others lessons also? Will it remember me? I enjoyed looking at your website. I went […]
Return to Questions and Answers IndexQ&A Questions and Answers: QUESTION: I bought an eight year old mustang mare three weeks ago and she has been doing really well. I bought her for leisure trail riding. I’ve been slowly working with her on riding because her previous owner pretty much kept her in the back yard. […]
Return to Questions and Answers IndexQ&A Questions and Answers: QUESTION: Hi Bob, I have a 16 year old grade quarter horse mare. When I bought her, the owner told me that she has already foundered twice. She has always had very sensitive feet on gravel of any kind and I didn’t get a chance to […]
Return to Questions and Answers IndexQ&A Questions and Answers: QUESTION: One day when we were feeding, Sissy, my new horse, was eating her oats. We usually feed in the pasture. She was eating and began choking and coughing. She moved away from her food and tried to lie down. My daughter and I did not […]
Return to Questions and Answers IndexQ&A Questions and Answers: QUESTION: Hi. Just love your website. Have learned much from reading about other’s issues and your responses to them. Maybe you can help me. I currently own a 5 year old TB gelding. I bought him last year and trail rode him all summer/fall even some […]
Gayetty’s Medicated Paper The only commercial toilet paper in the U.S. from 1857 until 1890, Gayetty’s Medicated Paper (also known as “therapeutic paper”) had to compete against free alternatives in the form of farmer’s almanac and Sears & Roebuck catalog pages… and even corn cobs and leaves. To assure buyers that they had the genuine […]
Old West – The American states lying west of the Mississippi River. Prior to the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, the terms “Far West” and “Old West” referred to the region west of the Appalachian mountains, especially the Ohio and Tennessee valleys. Following the westward expansion of the 19th century, those terms usually designated the area […]
Return to Questions and Answers Index Q&A Questions and Answers: QUESTION: Hi, I am struggling with whether to euthanize my old stallion. He is 29, he has arthritis in one front leg, I give him two grams of ‘bute a day and he can get out and graze, get down and roll, poop in his […]
…And here’s how — on September 20, 1998 — I reported the sad news of Jabe’s passing: In my last column, I shared with you the incredible intelligence and unique communicatin’ ability of my old yaller dog, Ol’ Jabe. It is now my sad duty to report that, in the early morning hours of August […]
Return to Questions and Answers Index Q&A Questions and Answers: QUESTION: Hello, I am an avid horse person. I give 4-H horse clinics to the local kids here in our county and I feel pretty confident in regards to working with youths and their horses. But there are times I do not have the answers, […]
Return to Questions and Answers Index Q&A Questions and Answers: QUESTION: What is the proper footing for a round pen itself where the horse will be working. Does it have to be anything special or just whatever happens to be there? thanks – L. R. ANSWER: The simple answer to that is sand. In fact, […]
…And I had to write at least one column about the lack of a good system of riding trails in this neck of the woods. Horses, horses everywhere, and not a place to ride. It’s no secret that I love horses. I love the way they move, the way they sound, the way they feel […]
Return to Willy & Company Return to Cowboy Bob’s Home Page COPYRIGHT © 1999-2010 BOB LEMEN, GRAND RAPIDS, MINNESOTA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The contents of this document are not for reproduction. Here are a few snapshots of other horses (and people) we’ve met – either in person or via the Internet: Cowboy Bob – […]