--- In [email protected], "Janice McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > in a > crowd of 300 horses racing over hill and dale like maniacs he is a > little hyped up shall we say...Am I giving up on him? Like I told my > husband "if I sold stonewall I would look for him every day I lived > the rest of my entire life and every time i saw a horse that reminded > me of him, was his color, had his loving comical personality, I would > buy it. So best to just hang with stonewall and keep working on him". > ANd I aint gonna put any mean bits on him either!
Janice, my Celie can be a little difficult. She is moody. Sometimes she can be totally sweet, level headed, and then she turns moody. I think she would do something like you described with Stonewall, she feels very defensive with other horses, it can sometimes look aggressive, but she has actually ended up on the bottom of the pecking order. Her default is to turn around and kick at a horse who scares her. She's been trying to do this since she was young, and the thing is she can KICK! I can't really do anything about the herd dynamics when I am not living in the pasture, they do alright together and are usually peaceful, nobody does any real damage to each other. When she is on a lead line with me, I am working on asking her to let me handle the situation, when she knows that I am going to protect her, she calms down. I'm not saying this is easy, it can escalate pretty fast. Right now I feel fairly wary about letting her near anyone, actually, even people who don't know to stay away from the hind end. I don't think she would ever kick me, but I'm not so sure she might not take a whack at other people. She is just kind of freaked out about horses she doesn't know and people she doesn't know. It's a challenge sometimes, but I love her, she is extremely intelligent, but not an equine for all people, and I do believe there are some like that, they have a lot of personalitly though, don't they? Kim
