Horse Addiction

I found this and thought I would share it with all of you who, like us, find that your horses have an undue effect upon your lives...

The Twelve Steps of Horse Addiction

1. We admit we are powerless under the rule of our horses - that our lives have become periods of servitude interspersed with occasional chances to purchase new play things for the horses that "own" us.

2. We have come to believe that there is no power greater than our horses that will keep us sane and happy.

3. We made a conscious decision that we have turned our will and our lives over to the care and entertainment of our horses.

4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of our barn and still think we might have room for just one more horse.

5. We admitted to God, ourselves and our friends that our shoes will always be muddy and there will be horsehair and horse snot on our clothes.

6. We were entirely ready to remove all these defects of character, but decided against it when our horse nickered and nuzzled us.

7. We humbly asked for removal of our shortcomings - so we could have more time to spend with our horses.

8. We made a list of all persons we had slighted when we were late because of chores or a long trail ride and became willing to make amends to them all - even though they still didn't want to hear about our horses.

9. We made direct amends to these people wherever possible, except when they didn't want to help us unload the feed bags or 100 bales of hay.

10. We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it to our horse... who knew it from the start and had been telling us that all along.

11. We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with our horses as we understood them, praying only for knowledge of their will for us and the power to carry that will out.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we will carry this message to those faced with Horse Addiction and practice these principles in all our affairs.

Take it one day at a time, folks!

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