--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >He could not understand why until I explained to him that horse >traders in the USA have been known to drug horses when someone was >coming to look at buying one. I don't know about you guys but I know >a lot of horses traders that drug a horse to sell and when the new >owners get it home it is definitely not a "child's horse" that it was >sold t be. >
Of course they do. I have heard this more than once first hand from people who bought what seemed to be a gentle horse and then got it home and it went crazy. I've seen horse trader kind of things done in every breed I've been involved with, not telling someone a horse cribs, a horse not really being easily gaited even though it looked fine in a video, trying to sell horses with injuries, behavioral problems, stories of drugging, yep. I am pretty certain that they didn't plan to tell the buyer of that horse who bucked me off that he had a little bucking thing going on, they were afraid they wouldn't be able to sell him. He had been through some harsh training and I was riding him, and they kept asking me if he had bucked yet, no, he hadn't at the time. It's always wise for people to educate themselves when buying horses, it can be just like buying a used car. I myself, haven't gotten any nasty surprises, I had a pretty good idea of what I was getting into each and every time. Kim
