So I finally decided to join this site. I don't want to make this into a long introduction, so I'll keep it short.
I am a horse zoo but have yet to meet a horse. As funny as that sounds, it is actually more complicated than most can imagine.
I don't mean to demean nor condescend, but ... bear in mind that I think all of us having experience in pushing fantasy into reality have found reality never really matches fantasy. I think all of us whom have had experience have had disappointing lessons in that. Some keep pushing the dream even as reality doesn't match up, and that can be unhealthy. Its great to have an interest, and its a very powerful impulse, but be prepared for the reality of horses to not match your preconceptions, and make sure you leave yourself a clear understanding that, for all you desire and push for, its entirely possible and quite okay that you find, after contact, you aren't as deeply into the reality horses as your preconceptions impulsively motivated you.
That said, welcome to zoowg.
Sorry that you feel that way. Again nothing I said was meant as a personal insult, its just that I -- like all the old sourpusses -- have gone through the "ZOMG I want contact with X" (be it horses, dogs or a movie star) only to find realty starkly different, and many of us -- I, specifically, have -- have seen a friend pursue a fantasy to harmful ends. I know I very much did not feel welcomed when old hat zoos preached at me when I was a newbie, and I promise you I don't preach merely because its SomethingUnpleasant I was forced to go through and thus you too, but merely because there's a risk in working yourself up too much. I hope you are able to have a real taste of your dream, I just want you to be careful and prepare yourself for the reality that it may not go as you hope. Its sound advice to hopefully take greater care and reduce the hazard for you, I regret that it makes you feel unwelcome, that's not the intent, but I grant that's an effect particularly given my own poor communication skills.
I've waited far too long to be let down.
The only problem is that nobody seems willing to help me with this.
The way that you've all been treating me is atrocious.
You go out of your way to make me feel like shit.