Hi, I'm Leo Shotgun Style, but everyone just calls me Shotgun. I'm an appendixed quarter horse. I'm usually the boss of the Three Amigos, but sometimes I let Clancy or Poncho be leader for awhile. I just love to dominate humans who don't know how to speak my language. Bryanna and I have a lot of fun together. She knows how to speak my language. We have a lot of fun together. I almost died of COPD (they sometimes call it the heaves) at one point, but my human partner didn't give up on me and with the help of a very special veterinarian named John Donovan from Prescott Animal Hospital, I am fully recovered. I feel better than ever and have gained back the 300 pounds I lost at one point.
My special human partner, Bryanna and me at The Trail Ride-a-Thon for The Children's Treatment Centre, Cornwall.
My Friend Shotgun
Leo Shotgun Style or just plain Shotgun as everyone calls him, but to me he has much more than just a name, to me he is my old man, one of my best friends....
When I was ten year old, I started riding at Droghedahe M anor and Garry told me I was going to be using Shotgun. At first I was a little nervous to be using such a tall, mean looking, obnoxious stubborn biter and who would be quite a challenge for a ten year old girl. But Garry knew what he was doing. After a few weeks he began to grow on me, once I got to know him he was no longer mean but quite loving. I worked with as much as I could, and came to visit whenever I could. I worked with him, talked to him, rode him, and fed him bags upon bags of carrots. I began to teach him not to bite me, and taught him respect. And we began to form an amazing partnership. He began to greet me in the field with a whinny, or would walk right over to seeme, and want to be with me. A great partnership, and friendship formed between us.
I am now almost seventeen years old, and I still love that old man to death, it has been seven years and our partnership has grown even more amazing. He has pretty much become my best friend over the years, and any time I was having a hard time, and still now when I am having a hard time I can count on him to be there. I look forward to seeing him and always have. I look forward being able to just relax in the field with him, feeling free and happy with him. And as the years pass we get closer and closer, and he knows my footsteps in the barn and perks up when he hears them, he knows my voice and always waits at the gate for me to bring him in and spend time. some of the best moments with him were riding and playing but some of the most special ones are when I walk out into the field, and even with all the other horses eating and playing, he comes right over to me, he keeps his head wrapped around my chest and stomach and will stay and cuddle as long as I stay right beside him.
It's been an amazing long journey with him, and I wish it could last forever. The old man has been my best friend, source of happiness, and has taught me a lot. He's a good listener and a perfect partner and a horse that I will never ever forget.
I love you so much shotgun, forever old man. Bryanna
LEO SHOTGUN STYLE
