Sell my horses??

Well a friend of mine told me I don't have enough time for my horses so I should sell them. Funny part is she never comes over or asks me what I do with my horses so I really don't know how she has come to the conclusion that I don't have enough tme form them. It is probably a personal interpretation of time needed to give to animals which truely differs from my own. She has 3 dogs and 2 cats all of which are indoor animals, even though she has a huge yard that the dogs can play in they all come in and sleep on the bed at night and get baths quite routinely. Me I have a huge yard which my dogs live in, they come in nights that it falls below freezing and stay in the basement in crates. We have 5 cats on the property, 3 which live outdoors at all times and 2 which can come in and go out as they please. The horses of course live outside in the pasture, they just don't fit in the house at all. :)

So then I have to wonder am I abusing my animals at all?? Am I neglecting their health at all? If the cats, even the outdoor ones left by my husband's mother and sister, get ill they get taken to the vet and they receive a rabies shot every year (racoons are bad around here and can carry rabies); when the dogs get sick they get taken to the vet as well as receiving all annual shots - I will admit to forgetting to give heartguard medication every month but I do get them tested every year because I know I am bad about this. The horses get their pedicures when needed and get the medical attention they need - even with my mare's cancer. The only thing I can say is that I don't do everything medically possible for my animals. My beagle has a torn ACL, we have know clue how he did it, and we did not get the surgery because I thought it would be mean to put an elderly dog through a surgery that may or many not cure the limp. The vet did not argue with my thoughts and at one point kind of pushed me to that conclusion. A lab we had started to have severe pain in his legs I ran off to the vet as soon as possible and paid a fortune for arthritis medication which only led the dog to getting worse, just over a week later I had to call the vet after hours to put my dog down after learning he had bone cancer and then arriving home one day I watched him have a seizure and then not be able to move anything but his happy tail. As stated earlier my mare has cancer, it is skin cancer and quite common for white horses, appaloosas and ponies (all of which she is). I did have a huge amount removed 2 years ago and know I will have to have more removed soon but it is something I just don't want to face right now and I really want to have financial stability before I start anything to ensure I don't stop in the middle of any treatment.

My friend - well she was ready to spend thousands of dollars to put her dog through chemo and radiation thereapy when her dog was diagnosed with cancer something I would personally not do but I did not tell her she was stupid or waisting her money or that it was just a dog I let her make her choices as it is her life and I don't know everything about her life to judge it. I think that is why I had such a hard time hearing from her judgements about my life and what I should do - sell my horses I did not have 'time' for them. So I started to think, what is enough time? Should I ride every weekend (even when it is raining, snowing, below freezing, over 100)? Should I enter shows? What is spending quality time with horses? Another friend who has horses came to visit mine and said my horses were spoiled rotten, they have 6 acres of partially wooded pasture to roam around in and hardly ever get ridden what horse would not like to live like that?

My choice? Ignore my friend. She never responded back to me when I confronted her on her 'advice' so maybe she thinks she is ignoring me but I have not tried to call her and usually after work I try to call her at least once - even if she hardly ever answers. Maybe it is me, maybe I am just incapable of social interactions but I have decided to stop trying to make up with friends I am not going to grovel back to them everytime they upset me to beg their forgivness. I am better then that I deserve to have an opinion and not have others tell me my opinion is not valid or wrong. I will not be bullied into being what others want me to be. If she thinks I am abusing my animals let her go ahead and call the cops on me, nothing will come of it because my animals are not abused or neglected. My life just does not revolve around them.