mydaddysjag
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Most people probably remember seeing my beloved Domingo for sale on the sales forum, but most probably didnt know why.
My two year old son was diagnosed with Autism earlier this year, and has appointments monday-friday with various developemental therapists, speech therapists, and occupational therapists. We had been working with them for months, but not seeing any improvements. This summer, we tried therapeutic riding with Colton, and it was like a miracle, he became more social, stopped biting himself, had a drastic reduction in the amount of meltdowns he has, AND he started talking.
At $40 a pop, I couldnt honestly afford him to be riding every other day, or every day like I want him to. We sat down and thought about it, and decided that the best thing we could do for my son was to buy a small horse/large pony for him to use for therapeutic riding, but big enough I could trail ride it, or hop on it for tune ups if needed. We needed to sell a horse for it to be financially feasable, but everything worked out.
In september, we picked our new quarter horse (hes a small QH, 14.2 hands) for my son. He needed to finish up show season with his old owner, she had qualified for the state horse show on him. After winning a State Championship, "Dan" came home with us last weekend.
Dan is a 19 year old Quarter Horse gelding who has done a little bit of everything in his life. He was a ranch horse and used for cutting, cow work, penning, and barrels his first 9 year. Then my friend bought him, and they used him as a show horse, Hunter under saddle, over fences, trail, showmanship. Hes also been used for a therapeutic horse for a child in a wheel chair. The perfect fit for our family.
Here are a few pictures, some with his old rider who allowed me to show the pictures, and one or two with my son on their first ride together since he came home.
My two year old son was diagnosed with Autism earlier this year, and has appointments monday-friday with various developemental therapists, speech therapists, and occupational therapists. We had been working with them for months, but not seeing any improvements. This summer, we tried therapeutic riding with Colton, and it was like a miracle, he became more social, stopped biting himself, had a drastic reduction in the amount of meltdowns he has, AND he started talking.
At $40 a pop, I couldnt honestly afford him to be riding every other day, or every day like I want him to. We sat down and thought about it, and decided that the best thing we could do for my son was to buy a small horse/large pony for him to use for therapeutic riding, but big enough I could trail ride it, or hop on it for tune ups if needed. We needed to sell a horse for it to be financially feasable, but everything worked out.
In september, we picked our new quarter horse (hes a small QH, 14.2 hands) for my son. He needed to finish up show season with his old owner, she had qualified for the state horse show on him. After winning a State Championship, "Dan" came home with us last weekend.
Dan is a 19 year old Quarter Horse gelding who has done a little bit of everything in his life. He was a ranch horse and used for cutting, cow work, penning, and barrels his first 9 year. Then my friend bought him, and they used him as a show horse, Hunter under saddle, over fences, trail, showmanship. Hes also been used for a therapeutic horse for a child in a wheel chair. The perfect fit for our family.
Here are a few pictures, some with his old rider who allowed me to show the pictures, and one or two with my son on their first ride together since he came home.
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