> I am so happy for Tivar
isnt it absolutely amazing the way people can not see what their horses are thinking sometimes! I dont think of myself as exceptionally perceptive but over and over I am totally floored by people who cant see the obvious. I went to visit Fox's sire Friday. He has been pasture breeding six years now. he came up with a mystery lameness so was taken out of the pasture and put in a stall. The owner told me "now he won't eat, don't know whats his problem" I go peek in and talk softly to him, he glares at me over one shoulder, I held out a treat, he swished his tail and flattened his ears, still glaring. If looks could kill, like that. I said "well gosh you cant see he's mad as fire?!?!" and the old man said "I dont care what he is he has to stay in there til his foot gets ok and if he dont eat soon its not gonna get any prettier..." I told him "well if it comes down to him dying of starvation whats a little hurt foot..." sheesh. I gripe to my husband and as usual he says "janice you cant save them all, cant even help them all..." WIth Tivar I am seeing he has a very very strong sense of right and wrong and if wronged will not tolerate it. Like I wronged him by choosing Nasi and others first. So he went into a rage. On the trail when he bit the horse in front of us I smacked him in the shoulder and he threw his head up and flattened his ears and then instantly was good, soft and calm. So its not like he is a fighter against authority. He is more like outraged by injustice, but if smacked for being bad he can accept that. He just cant understand why anyone would choose a three year old complete idiot over him in the paddock haha. But the behavior of lying down amused me. because he would flatten his ears and look over his shoulder at me in a complete sulking pout, and had positioned it so that I had to look at his rear end when I approached the gate :) janice-- yipie tie yie yo
