She's moved on... for now? Maybe...

It appears there are more updates on Jill Schnedler - but rest assured, she will continue to use and manipulate.

A local hardware company purchased her land and demolition of the house and barn started January 4th.  The house is officially gone and so is her tiny house, but the barn still stands.

Rumor has it she is on her way to Florida with 3 horses. I guess her father has ailing health so she's headed that way to cash in the possibility of a free property.  Social media posts suggest somewhere near Polk County, Florida.  Great way to leave Maine to avoid the $31,000+ she owes in veterinary care and housing for her seized 25 great danes, of which she swore she was going to get back.

Wonder who she's conned into trailering her horses and where she plans to keep them?

So horse community in Florida - beware!

However, I recently heard another rumor that she could still possibly be in Maine!  Word on the street says that she is near Belfast at a horse rescue with her three horses.  I pray she is not milking them for all they have by manipulating them into helping her.

December 2020 Update on the year

I am not the best at keeping up with my blog posts.  2020 has been a crazy year!

January: 2020 started off fairly normally.

February:  My family started sharing articles and news about the Coronavirus in Wuhan, China.  I attend my friend's 2 year old's birthday party (I have not seen them in person since due to Covid).

March: Travel blocked in the US from Europe and CDC recommends stopping all group gatherings of 50+ people.  I get furloughed from my job on March 27th and begin my fight with unemployment.  Groups and lessons stopped at the barn.  Had my friend's birthday dinner reservation canceled due to lockdown procedures - had to do a small take-out gathering instead. I have also taken on the care of my mom's chickens. Everything shifts to Zoom.

April: I shave my head because I'm tired of my hair, need a change, and all salons are closed due to Covid.  I start working at Lowe's until my work comes back - every day wearing a mask even though most people do not (yet).  The chickens now follow me around and look for me for food. I start going on walks outside with friends to get some exercise and fresh air.  Mask mandate in Maine goes into effect.

May: My furlough is extended but work continues my health insurance benefits (thank goodness!).

June: Out-of-state visitors have to quarantine for 14 days before coming into Maine. We start finalizing our plans to do our annual Girls' Weekend (7th year in a row!).  Masks required at Lowe's.

July:  I start work again at my old job on July 10th and begin full-time again at UCP on July 20th.  Girls' Weekend we go to Rangeley July 24 - 26 and have a blast. Learn that Jill Schnedler's dogs (after their seizure in January) are still at shelters and in foster homes - they are in limbo due to Covid and reduced courts.

August: I start taking riding lessons on Yada with Judy Westlake and make AMAZING improvements!  We both learn that she needs LOTS and LOTS of outside rein and my legs feel like they may fall off.  A wedding in Millinocket causes cases to skyrocket across Maine.

September: We have to put my mom's pony, Stitch, down after a colic.  Absolutely heartbreaking!  Two days later it is my birthday and a small horse show - I ride Yada to keep myself distracted.  My friends take me out for dinner to celebrate and really made my day complete. Masks required at work at UCP.

October: Masks now required in ALL public locations, even outdoors - cases continue to spike.  We cancel our plans to do a corn maze due to Covid.  I continue my lessons with Judy Westlake and Yada really begins to bend and get a collected, round, canter.

November: Cases rise incredibly high, based on previous cases in Maine.  Recommended not to travel for the holiday season.  I get two lessons with Gail McCormack from Infinity Farm after Judy Westlake returns to Florida.  Yada gets chased into a fence by 2 new-comer mares and I spend the next SEVERAL weeks wrapping her leg, keeping it clean, and removing proud flesh so it can heal.  I get antibiotics for Yada's leg so it can heal better after it begins to seep pus.  Horses begin coming in at night as the nights cool down.  With Yada's injury, I ride a friend's horse on Popham Beach and it is AMAZING!  She is a 3-year old chestnut OTTB mare and just a doll.  Discovered that she LOVES the water and would walk into it to splash around.  She was so much fun!  After Yada is healed, I plan to take her, too.  Hopefully, she does well.

December:  Yada's leg is mostly healed!  I get the occasional lesson on Yada and she is great!  I have started ulcer treatment on Yada - acts ulcer-y when asked to do more difficult things, especially since her antibiotics and being brought into her stall at night.  After 2 weeks, she is already acting better and less cranky.

Yada and I have come leaps and bounds this year in our riding.  She is becoming more round and listening so well.  She has developed more muscles in her neck and topline and I could not be more thrilled.  We have had some challenging and sweaty lessons but have grown so much!  After Christmas, I plan to start regular riding lessons (as was my plan in November until she got injured) and continue our growth!

I will post again once I have more updates and/or get to ride Yada on the beach!  <3

The state finally stepped in

It has been a long time since my last post, but I felt it necessary to post about the state finally stepping in when it comes to Jill Schnedler! She has been breeding Great Danes for a while and only recently applied for a license. I guess she didn't realize she needed to have an inspection done and they had some "concerns" she had to address.  Lately, it has been bitterly cold and she keeps her Danes in her UNHEATED, UNINSULATED, DRAFTY BARN!  I've been in this barn before and it's one of the coldest barns I've been in. The state seized 25 dogs, a cat, and she surrendered a stallion (who required sedation to be trimmed by the farrier).

The state will investigate more, there will be charges and court proceedings. Wonder if the court will be open to the public? Anyways, you don't have to believe me. Below are the links to 2 different news articles about it!

Bangor Daily News - 20 dogs seized from Hampden property in an unheated barn

News Center Maine - 20 Great Danes and other animals seized from Hampden home

Yada Yada Yada!

It has been a while since I've last posted anything!  Sorry about that, people!

Yada has been doing amazing!  She has been doing great at her canter and she's been such a good girl.  Such a people pleaser, that mare.

My mother's pony, Stitch, has Cushing's Disease (despite his blood tests coming back right on the fence) so I have had to shave his belly and chest this past winter, he got shaved short in the spring, and I just had to shave him again last weekend.  The heat is really rough on him lately.  Had to hose him off several times the last couple of weeks to keep him cool.  He has also had an attack of laminitis for the first time.  Last Tuesday the farrier came out and he was so sore on his front feet - but not standing like he had Foundered.  We took him off grass, gave him some Bute for a couple of days, and put him in a little dirt paddock with another Cushing's horse.

We purchased Heiro, a supplement for Cushing's and laminitic horses and we'll see soon how he is doing on that.  He was very sore on both front feet with a bounding pulse in his fetlock.  Since pulling him from grass he is only a little bit off on his front left and his pulse is less bounding but still very present.  Next summer, he will not be allowed any grass and we will continue to keep a close eye on his feet and continue communicating closely with our farrier to ensure the best care for his feet.

I have also been teaching lessons at my barn.  I have seven students right now and they are all doing rather well!  Two sisters I teach are becoming quite independent and almost at the stage that they could start cantering.  It is so much fun to be able to teach young students!  Stitch gets ridden by one of the sisters and he does so well with her.  They are such a good match!

For Mother's Day, I got Stitch genetically tested, too!  We were told that he was a Quarter Horse, Morgan, Arabian cross of sorts.  His genetic testing shows us the top three results and he is actually Lusitano, Selle Francais, and Arabian!  NOT EVEN CLOSE TO WHAT WE WERE TOLD!  Amazing the kind of cross he is. Not very common in Maine.  He's kind of a fancy pony!

That is all I have for today, but hopefully I'll update again soon!

Sweet As Sugar

Can you guess who I saw the other day?
If you guessed Jill Schnedler, you are correct!

I was at the tack shop getting more fly spray and treats and catching up with my friend who works there.  After a few minutes of chatting, my phone rings and it's my mom so I start wandering around the store, talking to my mother.  I'm sitting in the back on the demo saddle and when I hop down, I hear my friend say "Oh hi Jill!" in a very audible voice and I hear Jill Schnedler's voice...

Immediately my blood boils a little and I get the panic.

She responds, "Oh hi!  I'm just here to look at bridles."

I look to my right and there are the bridles so I know I have to find somewhere else to be.  I watch her circle around the store to her right so I head to her left to avoid her.  My boyfriend immediately realizes I'm trying to hide from someone.  He doesn't know who, but he stands between me and said person to block any view of me.  I'm standing at the door, ending my call with my mom and trying to say bye to my friend.  Somewhere along the line, Jill got a spy on me and just as I'm about to leave, I take one more look and I see a blur of her dark hair and purple sweatshirt.

Jill: Oh hi Kille!  So nice to see you
(running through my head:  Nice?  Less than two months ago you said my mom threatened your life!)
Me: Oh hi Jill!  It's nice to see you too!

From here, she proceeds to say sorry about Louize (who passed almost 3 years ago now) and asked if it was the adenoma my mom suspected and blah blah blah.  I then mentioned that I heard about her horse, KC, who she very recently lost (hinting at the fact that I hear things and I know what is being said about her and about me.  Whether she got my subtle hint or not, I have no idea.

I tried very hard from that moment on to hint that I was leaving and wanted out of the store.  For nearly four years I have managed to avoid seeing and talking to her.  It was NOT nice to see her, as she has been the one to spread horrible rumors about me and my mom.

Would someone really greet me so nicely if it was true that I left in the middle of the night, did not pay board for seven months, stole a bunch of her stuff, ruined her credit, posted her medical history on Facebook, and threatened her life?  Honestly?

My boyfriend and my friend are all a witness to this.  And the other employee and the few customers wandering.  The part that really got me is that she seemed genuinely curious and concerned about how I lost Louize.

She's good at giving a show and acting SO nice to me.  Unfortunately, I know her true side and this is how she can so easily manipulate people.  Very very sweet and kind to everyone in person but turn your back for even a second (or four years) and her true colors show through.

Bad Luck in the Family

It's been a very long time since my last post, almost a whole year!  It's been an absolutely crazy year so far.  Yada and I were taking lessons this summer with my friend Hannah and doing so great!  Finally I have Yada's canter under control and she is just fabulous on her right lead canter.  I'm so in love with this girl!  She's just perfect.  This winter we've also done a bunch of lunging and she can finally free lunge in perfect circles around me in the arena.  I can't wait for the snow to go away and lunge her in the big outdoor arena and see if she can canter just as nicely in a bigger space.  It's also weird to think that Yada will soon be seven years old in March!  I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with this girl.  =]

To go along with all of this good stuff, we've had a lot of bad luck in our family.  This summer, my aunt's Dachshund, Ratty, needed spinal surgery.  She came home and he was dragging his back end.  So instead of buying a no turn riding mower for her farm, she got surgery for Ratty.

After that, my aunt had a lot of issues with her leg and the doctors were talking about possible amputation if things didn't go well.  Luckily, things healed up and she still has her leg.  This is the same leg that she had surgery to remove tumors and it's the reason she can no longer ride horses.  She had to take a lot of time off work, teaching chemistry at a college, and now she's healed up.

In November, we had to put our Spanish Mastiff down due to his hips causing him too much pain.  He was on triple the pain dosage just to be comfortable enough to lay down.  A couple of weeks later, I got my mom a kitten to keep Brie, my mom's long coat German Shepherd, company so she wouldn't be home alone while everyone was at work or school.  Four weeks after, when we were getting his second round of shots, we mentioned how his eye had changed.  The iris was getting darker and he started to get spots on his cornea.  After multiple blood tests, we found out he had FIP (Feline Infectious Peritonitis) which is untreatable, uncurable, and 100% Fatal.  According to vet research, the longest a cat has survived after diagnosis is 24 months.  The least amount of time is just weeks.  Knowing he was terminal, we opted out of neutering him and decided not to spend hundreds to thousands of dollars treating any symptoms he might have because it would not lengthen his life.  Tuesday, February 2nd, I noticed him really struggling to stand and walk.  His back end was losing control.  He was already losing sight in his left eye so he was clumsy without his depth perception, but this was different.  Wednesday morning, he started losing control of his bowels and he started having diarrhea.  That's when we decided it was time and we said goodbye to our kitten, Guinness, at 3:30pm with our vet who originally diagnosed him.  Eye issues, URIs, neurological issues, diarrhea, lack of appetite, and such are all symptoms of FIP.  It can be spread through feces and we're assuming that's how he got it.  After you have a cat who has FIP, you should wait 30 days - 6 months before bringing another cat into your house and throw away all toys, dishes, and litter box to avoid future infection.  Wash all blankets or surfaces this cat has been on.

Also, Wednesday morning we heard that my uncle (married to the same aunt with leg issues and the Dachshund) had collapsed and was headed to the hospital with the EMTs.  My cousin, thank goodness, happened to be home, heard him collapse, and had to be talked through CPR to get him breathing.  It took a while to get a pulse back with him in the ambulance.  My aunt had just left for work 15 minutes before this happened and headed straight back.  Doctors had to do a lot of tests to see if he had a heart attack or a stroke.  He had to be under a medically induced coma and needed a neck brace in case he had any injuries and he needed a breathing tube.  Friday morning, he was finally responding to voices and moving all of his arms and legs.  That rules out stroke! YAY!  We discovered he had a heart attack due to an arrhythmia in his heart.  Today, he got his breathing tube out.  We're all very happy with his progress, even though right now he is still in the ICU.  We've done a lot of phone calls and text messages to stay updated so that way my cousin and aunt can tell one person and that person tells everyone else.

However, to go along with this, a neighbor's dog came over, there was a fight over dog food bowls, and the neighbor's dog attacked and killed Ratty.  My aunt is devastated and if she sees the neighbor's dog near her property again, she can't promise that dog will make it home again.  Sounds like that dog needs to be contained on a leash, in a fence, or on a run.

Hopefully this is the end of the family's bad luck.  I'm not sure how much of this I can take but hopefully my uncle keeps improving and can make it home soon!

Just nuts...

Everything at the barn and in my life has been pretty steady and quiet. Nothing crazy happening for the most part until my mom was scheduled at work to be in a room she normally is not working in at the hospital. One of her coworkers thought it was kind of funny and snooped a bit to figure out why.

As the tale goes, a certain woman named Jill Schnedler came into EMMC for some procedure. I do not know what it was for and I really could not care less. Jill Schnedler asked a bunch of the staff if my mom was working and where. When she found out she was, she requested my mom be somewhere far away and busy because apparently my mom is a stalker! WHAT?!  Of all the things, my mom is not a stalker and of all the people to stalk, Jill would not be the one to go for. In fact, if Jill disappeared off the face of the planet we might celebrate!

It has been since July 4th, 2012 that we have seen or been around Jill. We really want nothing to do with her. I cannot stand the woman for all the trouble and lies she has been causing and spreading.

Jill Schnedler at Coldbrook Equestrian Center is just getting crazier and crazier. Just let it go, lady! We have tried but you keep butting your way into our lives over and over and will not give it a rest.