On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 08:46:58PM -0500, Karen Thomas wrote: > I agree. Most people look at the terms of sale/trial from either the > buyer's perspective or from the seller's perspective, but very few people > look at the terms from the horse's perspective. I don't sell many horses, > and I never intend to sell a lot of them, but I've never let people take > horses off my property for trials.
huh. the horse's perspective is always why we insisted on trials when we sold horses from the lesson barn into new homes. we don't know if the new home will be a good fit or not, even if a person tries a horse several times there are other factors (they may lack our turnout, the horse may not get along with theirs or be lonely, whatever). and even if their training is damaged, better they should come back to us than go on to random whomever will take them next.... --vicka
