In Lee Zeiglers book... gosh I ran across something so good. She talks about how sometimes a horse will have a sense of humor for lack of a better word, and it can show up as misbehavior. She used as an example a horse that will go past something dozens of times with no problem and then suddenly out of the blue spook as if its never seen such a thing before. My stonewall does this! As you may recall he is my orphaned foal/over-imprinted/over-humanized horse. I had just become convinced he would always have a screw loose, but on the ground he is very goofy and comical, very playful. He likes to run and display for me sometimes and its sorta heartwarming.
Then at the bookstore I was reading a magazine yesterday and it talked about the "extroverted charismatic" personality type horse and I went wow, that is definitely my stonewall. When people say horses spook because they lack confidence, that just seemed not to make sense since Walls is so OVERLY confident, but it makes perfect sense for him to be playful and not realize he could kill me, kill us both. Anyway, in the book, lee talks about firmly discouraging and disallowing such behavior so they will learn even when bored and wanting to play, to be safe mounts. It really helped me to read the things she suggested. Janice -- yipie tie yie yo
