--- Judy Ryder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > relationship with a horse. It takes learning skills to develop
> the
> > latter, just like with any good relationship.
>
> And time.
>
> I think that may be one reason why breeders like to fall back on
> the "don't
> handle the foals" concept... it takes time.
>
>
> Judy
That could be true....
We in the past of presold our foals (we no longer sell foals, we are
raising them ourselves and then will train and sell as riding horses
when they are able to be trained..)
Anyway, one family, bought one of our fillies last year, it was their
only horse, they had a young child (7 years old) that was taking
riding lessons from the parelli based trainer down the road, the one
with the snake lead rope...anyway in our sales contract one of the
stipulations is that the filly is to be kept with other horses in a
pasture setting untill she is at least 3 years old.....the family
would come over every week to visit with their filly, we showed them
how to appropriately handle to horses.....however they made visits
when we were not home as well.......to this day the filly is so
sweet, but she is no only filly we have had here who is constantly in
your space.....I never have to push the others away, they have a good
sense of space and where it is appropriate to stand...but I feel the
filly was over handled and allowed to come into people space to much.
People have a hard time, because the baby is soooo cute, sooo
little, sooo whatever. People have a hard time creating boundaries
with horses, a lot of people have a hard time creating boundaries
with other people, thats how it is. We have had several clients who
are killing their horses because they do not want to limit feed, they
just can't make themselves limit feed to a severely foundered
horse....people sometimes love their horses to death. I do not
believe that everyone has what it takes to have good boundaries with
their babies....its from experience that I say this.....some people
can some people just choose not to for whatever reason they have.
|Skye
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