All the Creatures

My little Min Pin had a mystery pain that would come and go over a period of several weeks. He would walk hunched over at times for about an hour and then be OK. I knew the pain had to be muscle related but where was he hurting and how did he get injured?

After several weeks I finally discovered the cause…………it was his dog collar, or to be more precise him jerking on his collar when he was tied up. You see our neighbor is putting up a new fence and is taking forever to get it finished so we had been tying up my little guy outside under a huge shade tree for about 20 minutes a few times a day. What we didn’t find out until a few days ago is that he was lunging at the end of his tie out to get to a bird that liked to visit the part of the lawn, just beyond his reach. Each time he did that he would injure his neck.

Then I had to go and look for another alternate dog collar. So my quest began for dog collars. I looked at every type of padded collars and even the rolled leather dog collars. What I ended up buying was a padded dog harness that was designed for dogs to be worn in cars. Unlike the normal dog harness which is nothing more than an added strap that goes around the ribs attached to a dog collar, this harness has a padded breast plate that the straps are attached to. There is no pressure on his neck.

Now I can’t wait until the neighbor finishes putting up the fence. I think it will take another month because of the heat wave we are in right now. He has the posts in but he needs to run the wire fence for the entire 500 feet yet.

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As an animal lover I am aware of the many animal rescues, therapy organizations and other non-profits that beg for donations. There is one therapy non-profit that seems to always be on a horse message board that I frequent. The Director of the place is Kari Ann Owen. She is either looking for horses or trying to find retirement homes for the horses that they have used up. At least that is the way it seems. She also has shown, in her posts on the message board that she is trying to get involved in her “students” jumping the horses but has no training in jumping nor knowledge in choosing the right horses for the work.

Since she frequently posts the name and web URL of her non-profit I thought I would finally check her out. Her website is at www.freewildhorse.com and is called “Wildhorse.” On that page she gives herself the title of Dr. Kari Ann Owen, Ph.D, which sounds good on paper. But what is she a doctor in? Yes I found that out too, and it is not on the Wildhorse website. I Googled her name and found lots and lots of stuff. First she is a doctor of religion. Her personal website is at www.kariannowen.com and she shares a lot, maybe too much. Her writings on her abusive sexual encounters with her father and her journey into the bondage culture was a bit more than I wanted to know about her.

Yes I know that people do like to use titles added to their names just to promote things. I also know that I don’t like it when people use it to mislead others. Throwing that Ph.D on that horse therapy page makes it sound like she is highly qualified to run an organization like that. What she should do is add on that page what the Ph.D was earned in. It would make her sound more honest to those whom she is begging donations from.

Like I mentioned before, I Googled her name and found out she is a prolific writer with a passion about writing about her life and the mess it was in. Reading her writings made me question if this older woman (she is in her late 60’s to early 70’s) has it all together upstairs. She has some rather odd perceptions of life and not many of them are main stream. I found this rather odd piece that she wrote about her conversion from a Jew to Islam while blaming society for her fathers behavior. Then there is the short film she has made. She pleads with Bush and future presidents not to nuke Iran. I guess she doesn’t care about other countries getting nuked.

Yes I found out too much about a woman that begs for money, donations and help with horses online.

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Did you get that “fairy tale horse” email? It is the one that claims to help your horse have luxurious manes and tails. I got the email last week and thought it sounded a bit odd. I did some investigating into it.

As it turns out, it is a series of ebooks that the author, Beth Moore (if that is her real name) is promoting through clickbank. Currently this little scam is raking in $57 a sale to Beth. From what I was able to find out, the only advice she gives in her books for a long mane and tail is not to brush it.

The scam does not end there. It seems that her website (also called a “push page” in the industry) is full of photos of horses that she has grabbed off of the internet. None of those horses are hers, the owners never heard of her or use any of her techniques to grow long manes and tails. In fact several owners of the horses are trying to get the photos off of her website.

Now if you Google the phone number listed at the bottom of the web page (404-419-7920) be prepared to spend the next 30 minutes wading through what seems to be countless other products this person is selling, including a cure for tight foreskin…I assume on men.

If you have a horse that is on her website just contact Clickbank and they will help you out. They don’t like fraud either and will do what they can to put a stop to it.

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