From Townhouse To Horse Farm

This is a little story about going from townhouse to horse farm but let’s start with a little backstory shall we? Alex and I got married. Then we moved to GA and bought a no-maintenance townhouse. During that time we bought Scuba, our arabian gelding, for a dollar and that’s also when I started The Georgia Horse as a platform for me to write about our adventures and pitfalls of Scuba and I’s training journey. From halter training the just-gelded still-acts-like-a-stud feral 4 year old Arab, to jumping around 3 foot courses, there was 3 years of constant blog posts… Read More

Introducing Tyson

There will be a new face around these parts. On May 1st I picked up my latest retraining project, a 3 year old thoroughbred gelding that we named Tyson. His history was a little fuzzy but I did find out that he is registered with the Jockey Club (“Rejuvenation”) but he was too calm and slow to make it off of the training track. He was Retired sound and found himself at a southern Georgia sport horse farm where the trainer wanted to use him as her Retired Racehorse Project mount. After finding out that he could not be used… Read More

Pet Photography: Scuba The Horse

I figured that an easy way to ease into introducing one of our latest pet photography works was from The Georgia Horse’s own mascot, Scuba the horse. Scuba is already familiar to many who have been following along for the past few years and he even has his own hashtag (#ScubaDaHorse). The day of this particular shoot, Scuba was out in a pasture of pretty yellow flowers. It was warm out and Scuba had just rolled in the dirt, trying to cover up his white in exchange for a dusty gray color for protection from the sun. Scuba had a hard time taking… Read More

Welcome

Welcome to The Georgia Horse! The Georgia Horse’s editor-in-chief is Dr. Jessica Trogstad, DVM. Dr. T is a licensed veterinarian living in the Atlanta, GA area. Dr. T owns and operates a pet sitting company (Dr. Trogstad’s Pet Sitting) for medically needy and terminal ill animals, both large and small. On top of giving great care to her patients, Dr. T also shares her love of photography by photographing pets and families through out the Atlanta area. The Georgia Horse started 2 years ago as a place to find resources for rescued and neglected horses in Georgia, as Dr. T… Read More