On 1/25/07, pippa258 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Karen Thomas wrote: > >>>>> http://www.eclectic-horseman.com/newsletter/12Reasons.php > >>>>> > > > > I've seen that article. Interesting isn't it? > Yes, I think she has some good points. The author is someone who also > has made good points defending NH so it was nice to see this article > keeping things balanced. > > Trish > everyone knows about my stonewall problems lately... When I read this of course I thought of him. One thing that came to mind--- i tried to think of when it began and if there had been an incident that might have made him where he hates being run up on by another horse. I remembered sacking him out one time and he was fine with a tarp on his head and body but as I slid it over his rump he moved a certain way and I had a haystring attached to the tarp and it was UNDER his tail and when he swung around he freaked and took off and was just insane with terror and I finally caught him when he stopped trembling and exhausted and I comforted him and it took some doing to get that tarp off him! So after that I worked with that tarp sliding it over his butt until he seemed ok with it. But now I wonder if I should go out today and work on sliding a lead rope UNDER his tail and see what happens, see if he has lingering issues with that... but then I remember he has always been a horse, my only horse, that has a strong startle reflex if you surprise him from the rear. Like I walked around the trailer with a saddle one day and startled him and he actually kicked out so I am very careful about that always around him, to let him know I am coming. In his early yearling days before I got him I was told he was in a large 40 acre pasture with all the mares, about 15 mares. I wonder if they didnt let him get away with much...
anyway. Of course I am over analyzing this but this is my problem du jour right now and it HAS to be fixed and I am looking into everything it could possibly be so I can help him. Janice -- yipie tie yie yo
