nhg
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Post by nhg on Sept 26, 2014 23:19:39 GMT
I'm going to help a friend with her disrespectful horse on Monday. It's a while since I've had to deal with a difficult horse and I'm looking forward to it. He's gone from being a quiet, solid horse to actually rearing up on her since she got him last year. My daughter and I had to worm him last fall because he wouldn't let her. We made the lead rope into a makeshift twitch and it worked like a charm but I doubt just one of us could have done it.
I'm really looking forward to doing something useful and seeing what his deal is.
And tomorrow I'm going to watch another friend in her lesson. She has a new TWH and is taking lessons from a TWH coach. I have so many horse friends but very few are at the same place. It would be so much easier if they were and so much fun.
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mistersmom
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Post by mistersmom on Sept 27, 2014 1:00:05 GMT
Well have fun but be careful please. You don't need any more set backs!!!
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Lipizzan
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Post by Lipizzan on Sept 27, 2014 10:54:07 GMT
I am glad you are feeling useful again. Be careful and have fun. Pictures would be great :-D
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nhg
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Post by nhg on Sept 27, 2014 13:42:49 GMT
I'll be careful, thank you! I helped my daughter dig out her yard last week so I'm feeling much stronger. This horse is basically a good guy, I was with her when she went to see him to buy him and I know he's going to be fine. But spoiling him and lacking confidence handling him has made him take advantage of the situation. I'll help her to help him and they'll be okay. There's no point in me going over and working with him and her continuing to do what she's been doing with him. My plan is to empower her. I doubt it'll be difficult, he knows better, he just needs a reminder.
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nhg
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Post by nhg on Sept 30, 2014 1:16:55 GMT
I'm sorry, I didn't think to take pictures at either place until now.
So I watched the lesson on Saturday. I was a little disappointed because I always feel like you can learn something from anyone that knows anything about horses but not this time. The coach trained the horse and the horse doesn't collect and is short strided for a walker, probably because she doesn't collect. The coach yaps non stop through the whole lesson to the point where it's confusing and she told her to use the wrong leg for pressure a couple of times. Luckily, my friend isn't a newbie so she used the correct leg but this young woman gives lots of lessons and it bothered me. This woman also trained a walker that someone else I know has and that horse doesn't gait well, either, and didn't learn collection.
Today was the ground work lesson. He's a sweet horse but wasn't happy at first about the ground work. I worked with him for a while and then had her work with him. Then I had her work with her other horse that doesn't take advantage of her. I found out that he hadn't actually reared up with her when she was riding him as I'd been told by another friend, he'd started backing up to avoid moving out and had tripped in a hole and fell on his butt. He's done a few things to avoid being ridden. The ground work went well, he'll be fine that way but when we let them go I noticed that his pelvis is out. One hip goes much higher than the other one when he's walking so that might be the issue as far as not wanting to be ridden. I really like him. She wants to sell him. If I had the money I'd buy him and work with him for a few weeks and find him a good home. He was used at a feedlot for several years and has horrible white marks from a saddle that didn't fit. He has a mutton wither and he looks like an appaloosa in that area. He's dark red but has a number of distinct white spots on each side of his wither. He's been sored several times there, probably five or six times. And I'd bet he was sore without having the saddle rub him raw plenty of times, too, poor guy. Yet he's a puppy dog and loves to be snuggled.
It was fun and I'm hoping she'll keep up what we were doing. I just started her doing the really basic PP stuff like backing away from me and moving his hind end away. He was licking and chewing and even bowing. He's no dummy and was quite responsive after the initial reaction of 'who do you think you are coming out here and making me do something I don't want to do?' He actually reared a bit when I first started backing him away from me. I'll go back a few times and see how she's doing with him. I also showed her some body language to use and not use with a horse. |
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hugs
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Post by hugs on Oct 1, 2014 3:44:44 GMT
It really shows you that horses for the most part want to be good but when what we do threatens them in some way, how else can they tell us somethings wrong?!
It is so disappointing when trainers and instructors can't admit when they mess up and just be human about it. You'd think they'd know better... oh well, that's why there's caveat emptor.
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