Looking for Love: Online Dating Services for Horse Lovers
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If you tell the average pedestrian that you’re a member of a horse dating service, they might turn you into the ASPCA – or the police. But, those within the equestrian community are discovering how the on-line dating craze has expanded to include special services devoted exclusively to horse enthusiasts.

Now, horse owners and riders from a wide variety of backgrounds and interests can meet their next significant other confident that he or she shares a love of horses. Offering a variety of services to help members of the equestrian community make friends and find love, these websites open up the world to members of a growing community.

CowboyCowgirl.com

This site sets out the hay bails for web surfers who combine a passion for horses with “love for the country way of life.” Cowboycowgirl.com confronts an obvious logistical problem for some horse owners. To house, feed, ride or breed horses, their owners often need a good amount of land – sometimes in a rural area. While that lifestyle offers peace, quiet and aesthetic amenities, it can also be isolating and solitary by nature.

So, the creative minds behind this site offer to bring together far-flung country folk via their computers.

HorseLovers Connection

This network also reaches out to “special country horse people” to offer “a comfortable place with a down home feel where warm old fashioned friendships are born and the focus is truth, honesty and all the little things of importance that are often forgotten in this fast paced world. We believe that we bring together wonderful people who are serious about their lifestyle and sincere about who they are and what they seek.”

While that sales pitch makes no mention of horses, the inference is that horse lovers and country folk are just a little more honest than most…so, why not date one?

EquestrianSingles.com

This site looks to reach past traditional on-line matchmaking to offer an information exchange community for horse owners and riders around the world. In addition to the usual dating profiles to browse, site users can concentrate on just making friends, look for information on riding areas, and share specific equestrian interests. Also, users can use in-built chat functions for real-time, on-line conversations.

EquestrianCupid.com

While offering the same functions as its fellow equestrian efforts, this site takes a more regional approach – offering users the chance to match up by region before expanding their search. Once a user identifies their network of friends, they can use the message boards to discuss “horses, culture, business, religion, work, sports, life, relationship,” etc.

Signing up for all of these sites is free and easy for veteran computer users. After a questionnaire to identify the users location, interests and history, he or she has opportunities to describe himself or herself in hope of attracting the right interested horse-lover.

While entering information and establishing a presence on the sites is free, using them to locate potential matches involves a nominal fee. Users either pay one flat month amount, or they buy credits they can use to make contact if and when they choose.

Either way, equestrian fans and horse owners might wait years to meet another similar animal lover on a traditional dating site. Fortunately, there were enough savvy on-line minds to fill this passionate niche.

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