Posted by tractorsam on September 04, 2012 at 13:51:31 from (71.7.148.190):
I could use a little advice on a problem my girlfriend and I are having. My apologies for the length and the off topic. She has some 'adopted' parents who have for the last 30 years or so been taking in and looking after a varying number of aged horses. About 10 years ago my girlfriend met these people and adopted them as parents (long before I was in the picture). At about the same time she became involved with caring for the horses in an on and off basis and wound up adopting one after nursing it back to health.
Roll on towards the present day and there are 5 horses in the barn (which is getting to the point of falling down - no maintenance), one at 15 the rest around 30. The adopted parents are both around 60. They've never been overly well off but they've been having harder than usual times lately, add to that the adopted mother started going through some form of a late mid life crisis and now acts much like a typical teenager (doesn't care/can't be bothered/won't take responsibility). My girlfriend and I are doing our best to help them out, we've been supplying(buying) the hay for the horses for the last 2 years as well as hauling it to there place (and putting it in the barn). They have some health issues and so my girlfriend has been going up weekday mornings, feeding the horses, letting them out, cleaning the stalls etc.
They have a teenage daughter who won't lift a finger to help, another younger person who lives with them (supposedly to help out) who seems to be getting lazier by the day. The main problem we're having is that my girlfriend doesn't want to let the horses suffer and so she is doing what it takes to keep the horses as close to happy as she can but the more she does the less her adopted parents (and help) are doing. Add to that they're making things harder by not getting the feeds done up (they won't let my girlfriend do it) so she can't even get started until midday. They won't let the horses be taken off the property (although we don't have anywhere to put them), my girlfriend can't take just her horse as it's herd bound, and if my girlfriend doesn't take care of it they'll barely do enough to keep them alive (after the long weekend they were about up to there ankles in muck.
We're about at our wits end but my girlfriend won't see the horses suffer and doesn't want to loose hers. Any thoughts, advice, or help on how to get fix/improve this situation would be much appreciated. Thanks, Sam
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