Southern Thunder Blueticks--Home of Champions--in and out of the woods.
Cute motto, huh? My wife wants to change it to something sappy...what was it? Southern Thunder Horses and Hounds or something like that. I asked her why bother because you never want to sell anything. In fact, thanks to my wife, most of our animals are gonna die here. We do have, on occassion, a bluetick or two for sale and some of the nicest horses around. We aren't really breeders, in the sense that we keep and show pretty much everything we breed. However, despite my wife's nagging (I mean best efforts), we can't keep everything that happens our way. While marriage counseling is fun, I prefer to stay out of that guy's office and keep our animals mud fat with top quality feeds and the best vet care known to man to keep her happy. The dog thing, I can relate to because hey, they deserve it and I have a trophy room to prove it. But, seriously, like we need one more homeless kitten???
Unfortunately, all this takes money so, I have convinced her to take on projects for resale to keep the animals we've got. Thankfully, she's got some freaky horse whisperer thing going on and she apparently, can make horses do things like bow and kiss for a meal. I drew the line there. Now, I will be the first to tell you, I find it an incredibly useless trait for a horse to shake it's head yes. I wanna know two things when I buy a horse--can it ride and what it's breeding. Apparently, some of you big spenders think that horsey bows are worth a few hundred dollars. Who am I argue with flawed logic? On a more positive note, when she's done with all that nonsense, the horses are bombproof and very well broke. Thankfully, she had me to show her how to do it the wrong way.
Now, it wasn't always like this--her and her horses and me and my blueticks. She brought three blueticks with her when she moved in and didn't have any horses. I thought I hit the jackpot because her dogs had some of that really old breeding and gorgeous heads and big bawl mouths, etc. Then, I find out she is all about beating me on the bench, in the water, in the trials. Thankfully, she's grown sick of the nite hunts. I have listen to her run her mouth about how her male has tighter feet and how he's better on the tree--yada, yada, yada. So, I had this great idea to get her into the horses. Ya know, the old bait and switch...you see where this is going and how far this has gotten me. Now, not only, do I still have to listen to her beat me on the bench with my own dogs but, I also have to pay to keep her horse addiction going.
Look around. We carry some top quality products and sell some things I personally have no earthly use for so she can buy her $120 dollar equine sport medicine boots and call our vet when one of the horses or dogs gets a tick bite. I figure if my wife buys some of these silly products someone else's wife is probably looking for it. Have fun looking around and I feel your pain.