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Doris Loeffler
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- Cottage Grove
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Doris Loeffler's Groups
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NAPHA Updates
40 members
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Northwest Peruvian Horse…
8 members
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North Star Gaited Horse…
16 members
Doris Loeffler's Discussions
TIPS ON BUILDING THE HORSE BARN !!
Replied Dec. 14, 2009
TRAIL TRAINING CLINIC
Started Oct. 23, 2009
Photos needed for new gaited horse book (asap)
Replied Aug. 13, 2009
Doris Loeffler's Events
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2010 Summer Spectacular All Gaited show
June 11, 2010 at 3pm to June 13, 2010 at 7pm – Lynn County Fairgrounds
Visit us at PeruvianPasoFun.com
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2010 Summer Spectacular All Gaited show at Lynn County Fairgrounds
June 11, 2010 at 3pm to June 13, 2010 at 7pm
This show contains several classes for different breeds of gaited horses. This year we will have more Peruvian classes including breeding, gait, performance, junior and novice classes. This is a good show if you are just starting out as it is laid b…
HI. Great pix! What did you use for awards instead of neck ribbons - looked like leis of flowers draped over the horses' necks? And what did you hang them on? I do awards for SCPPHC shows and like the look of your award table.
Profile Information
- My Location: (City, State, Country)
- Cottage Grove, OR USA
- About Me:
- My husband and I got into horses, when we retired. We never had horses before and settled on the Peruvians and have never looked back.
Our horses are show and trail horses. They have been in parades, shows, demos, drill, and trails.
I am a promoter of the Peruvian Horse, Have a riding group called PeruvianPasoFun see
http://www.peruvianpasofun.com and invite those in my area with Peruvians to join our group. I also belong to the North West Peruvian Club and member of NAPHA. I also promote http://www.FriendsofthePeruvianHorse.com
- I am a:
- Owner, Aficionado
- I am a Member of These Associations:
- PeruvianPasoFun - NAPHA-the Northwest Peruvian Club
- I would like to meet:
- lovers of the Peruvian horse
- Website:
- http://www.peruvianpasofun.com
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Comment Wall (66 comments)
- At 6:45pm on January 12, 2010,
Vicki Scocca-Ryse said…
- Hello Doris, good to hear from you, how's Don and the horses? Thanks for helping Lyn with Humo.
- At 7:22am on October 12, 2009,
Deej Peterson said…
- Hello Doris, I'm very happy to be on this site. I have tried several other sites and found them to be rather childish. Also, nobody could relate to how wonderful our Peruvian horses are! So Bravo to you and this wonderful site. I look forward to many visits here!!!
- At 3:50am on October 6, 2009,
Micke Sandström said… - Hello Doris!
Thanks alot! I have just visited your website; you have nice horses and it seems like you have beautiful riding-areas over there. Looks a little bit like Sweden...
- At 2:39pm on October 3, 2009,
Kimberly Hall said… - Hi Doris, I'm sorry I didn't respond sooner to your inquiry about the Junior Benefit Show - I haven't logged onto PHW for a couple months. Here's how it went:
Several NAPHA juniors and former juniors were there to work throughout the weekend. There were about 10 former & current NAPHA Junior Members that worked and countless “kids at heart” that worked very hard throughout the weekend!
Despite the count being down to 50 horses, the exhibitors really stepped up and entered lots of classes! Ernesto Sandigo was very well received amongst the Peruvian Paso exhibitors and the Paso Fino folk even asked for him to judge their classes! The Peruvian Horse was the most represented, with 23 horses and a Peruvian took home the honor of Best of Show. Congratulations to Don & Marge Faulstich and their stallion ERB Mantequilla.
This year we introduced “Battle of the Breeds”. A competition amongst all breeds represented at the 2009 All-Gaited Junior Benefit Horse Show. Since the Peruvian horse was the most represented, all the owners of Peruvian horses were entered into a drawing. Toby Risman of Lafayette, California was the winner of a drawing by a very talented artist, Shirley Isola. Toby will be able to have a horse of her choosing drawn by Shirley. We hope to keep this going for the 2010 show.
We also held a raffle for a 2 night stay at a vacation home in Bodega Bay, California to benefit Jackie Garayar. Congratulations to Paul & Nancy Leese for winning the raffle. We were able to donate $1,000 to Jackie and the Garayar Family to assist them through this trying time. We wish her a speedy recovery and thank her & her family for all their support!
All in all, we hope to get the count of horses back up, but are thankful to all who made this years show a success! Keep on eye on our website, www.juniorbenefit.com, for information on the 2010 All Gaited Junior Benefit Horse Show!
- At 12:55am on September 3, 2009,
Susan Miller said… - Thank you Doris! I drive thru VP on my to and from work each day ") Yes, there are quite a few ranches & breeders in CA, but I've not found many folks who have Peruvians just for pleasure riding. I ride with a small group of gals with gaited horses so we're in good company. The miles of trails here in OPA and the county parks are right out our back gate, so we are quite fortunate... and I also have the good fortune to have found someone in OPA who had many years ago, imported, bred and showed Peruvians... their daughter is willing to work with me to improve my "Peruvian" riding and 'communication' with Mercedes, who is my 3rd Peruvian, 5th horse... she is from Canada and is a Piloto decendant, and was shown long before she got to me! She will be my forever horse.
- At 9:18am on August 7, 2009,
Javier Lucar said… - thanks doris for your comments.....best regards...
javier
- At 12:20pm on July 26, 2009,
Mary Johnston said…
- Doris,
I am not at the show. Carl has a Herford steer that we have been working with for county fair and hauling hay, 40 tons. I was planning to go, but my chauffeur services were needed.
Mary
- At 7:29am on June 12, 2009,
Julie McCallister said… - Hi Doris,
Hope you have a great time at the show this weekend. We had planned to come down but other things came up and had to change plans.
Julie
- At 10:14am on June 8, 2009,
Rita Dalfior said… - Thank You! Every time I see her silly little face I see God smiling!
- At 11:40pm on June 7, 2009,
Rita Dalfior said…
- Hi Doris, thank you for the add!
The Saga of Tabasco the Peruvian Paso:
My dear friend of 8 years introduced me to riding in 2004. She wanted a horse, and a co-worker of ours said her mom was moving and had 2 Pasos for sale, so we traveled down south and my friend ended up buying Tabasco's half sister named Sienna in '05. Tabasco was sold to a friend of the original owner.
The following winter our co-worker's mom got a call from a former neighbor who saw Tabasco at her new owners' and told her he was going to call animal control because Tabasco looked terrible: real skinny, all alone in a makeshift paddock that was really a front yard. The mom said no, don't call-she'd take care of it. When I heard what was going on, I said I'd take her, and bring her to be with Sienna. When we picked her up she was thin, shivering, and she had white patches on her withers and nose from a poorly fitted saddle and too small halter. She was head shy and wanted NOTHING to do with me.
Once in a pasture environment with Sienna and a good diet, she began to blossom. then, 2 months later she tore her front left leg open which required 12 stitches. We paddocked her and I had to tend to her leg and feed her antibiotics, and our bonding began at that point. Once she healed we began riding here and there, but I was always scared because I'm a novice and she was so unpredictable. I had no idea that while she loved me, she had absolutely no respect for me. Tabasco had always had her own way, and she wasn't going to let ANYONE tell her what to do. I've been working with her (after a few false starts) with the current stable owner who has been giving me lessons in horsemanship; and she's finally deferred to ME-one day I'd had it with her shenanigans and took her to the round pen and ran her ass off. Now she behaves (almost) like an angel!
Tabasco is 16, is 14.1 hands, lovely gait, great bloodlines (that doesn't matter to me, but it's neat to say). She's an amazing horse. The former stable owner told me she's been around horses all her life, and has NEVER encountered a horse like her. (She escaped TWICE from a box stall while mending from a bowed tendon, and no one knows how!) She is as smart as a whip, inquisitive, VERY loving (and very well loved by everyone), and had up 'til this year a 3 word vocabulary- "I want", and "No". Now she has added two more words-"OK Mom"!
Nothing makes my heart swell as much as when she sees me from across the pasture and lets out a whinny, then herds Sienna over to the gate where my friend and I stand waiting...
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