You Know You're A Horse Person When...

• You pull a $17,000 horse trailer with a $1,700 pickup truck.
• You plan your pregnancy around the show season so you can send your horse to your dressage instructor for training during the eighth and ninth months.
• You put a gun rack in your pickup truck to carry dressage whips and riding crops.
• Everytime you drive past a road construction sight you think what nice jumps the barricades would make.
• When your horse gets shoes more often than you.
• You know when you're a horse person when your boyfriend complains that you love your horse more then you love him and you answer: "And your point is?"
• You also know your a horse person when your trying to get by a co-worker in a restricted space and instead of saying "excuse me" to him/her, you cluck at them instead. :)
• You know you're a horse person when: Your secretary does a "hay check" on your suit each morning and your first stop in the office is the ladies room to remove the shavings from your shoes.
• Your non-horsy friend gives you a funny look after glancing into the back seat of your car, and you realize he's noticed your whips and spurs.
• You say "whoa" to the dog.
• You groom your horse and you haven't been to a beautician in ?
• Your horse gets new shoes more often than you. You pull change from your pocket at work, and hay falls all over.
• Someone says, "Does anyone have a screwdriver?" and you hand them a hoofpick.
• You clean your tack after *every* ride but never ever ever wash the car.
• You yell at the kids, and the horse's name pops out.
• On rainy days, you organize the tack room, not the house.
• Your horse's mane and tail get better care than yours, and it shows.
• Your horse gets more compliments for grooming than you do.
• You kiss your horse more often than your husband or boyfriend, and enjoy it more.
• You've considered moving into the barn, since it is cleaner than the house.
• Your horse seems the right choice when you need to talk something out with someone.
• You remember worming and vaccination schedules, but not your mother-in-law's birthday.
• You find yourself analyzing leg and foot conformation on your friends, and thinking how corrective shoeing could improve their way of going.
• You run your tongue over your back molars and idly wonder if they need to be floated.
• You know you're a horse person when ALL of your pockets have hay in them.
• You know.....when you have a small knife on your key chain (and you're a woman)
• You talk to the horses like they were kids.
• All your stock has 4 legs.
• You chirp to, cluck to or spur your truck/car.
• You say whoa to your truck/car.
• When you known more about equine nutition than human nutrition and it shows.
• All of your clothes have horsehair on them, even if they've never been worn to the barn.
• You aren't interested in watching the news, but have to, in order to catch the weather, so you know if the barn needs to be left open for the horses.
• You trade your nice, nearly-new Suburban for a 1-ton 4x4 pickup, so you can haul hay & straw for the critters. (And have that 454 engine for pulling the trailer up those looooong hills.)
• You know you're a horse person when a new friend walks in your door for the first time. Takes a smell and says with a smile, "I didn't know you had horses." :)
• When your bicycle is mostly used as a bridle and saddle rack.
• You spend more on that 6 year old jumper than you've EVER spent on a car!
• You go on a diet, not to be more attractive, but to be a better rider.
• Co-workers start pointing out green slobber or straw on your clothes. You solution is to start wearing exclusively "hunter green".
• When your horse has its mane pulled more often than you get a hair cut.
• Your house is "decorated" with bits, saddles, bridles, halters, blanket racks, trunks, trophies and ribbons.
• There are bits soaking in your bathroom sink.
• You show up at work with bran mash (unbeknownst to you) all over the back of your coat.
• Your car is the only one in the company parking lot that has an inch of dust INSIDE and when you open the door, a swarm of flies emerge.
• Your horse gets vitamins and supplements everyday and you can't remember to take vitamins yourself.
• You can't make it to work because of bad weather, but somehow still make it to the barn.