well why does curly ray take bites out of my qumquat tree?! He's not playing! He is trying to make me mad! he only does it when i come out onto the porch! maybe vengeful is a better word. horses can be vengeful. They are! Look at tivar, if i let another horse pass us he flattens his ears, sulks, starts plodding along all depressed, then sees an opening, goes to pass and take the lead, I say no, uhuh, and gee all of a sudden whack my knee hits a tree. then it starts happening every time he tries to pass and I say no, gee all of a sudden whack my knee hits a tree, but hmm, if he is first in line for two hours in and out trees even at a fast trot, even at a canter, hairpin turns, my knee NEVER hits a tree. what is that, playfulness?? I doooont think sooo i think it is bwaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa revenge of the icelandic grump.ok, believe me, i appreciate his not launching me, bolting or biting so I aint complaining. But I just see they can have a leetle mean streak.
and I think horses bite and kick to be mean sometimes also. not just out of pain. I have seen some mean vengeful horses. In fact I have seen a couple i dont believe had any redeeming value whatsoever. I saw one kick his owner like in a bugs bunny cartoon and sent him flying thru the air and land with his head in a fence and all the owner was doing was bending over to pick something up and that horse had never been mistreated a day in his life and in fact, had often tried to kick at my truck when i drove by, kicked at jaspar on the trail and narrowly missed my ankle, reached and bit my leg when the owner rode up and whoaed to stand next to me. now what was that. the horse wasnt in pain, had lived a charmed life, never been mistreated a day. all i can figure is they named him macho and i have a secret belief that if you name a horse a name like maverick, bucky, macho, stuff like that, it can cause a mean horse. the worse horse accident i ever witnessed, brain damaging the rider, was on a horse named diablo.... but i regress. I have seen mean horses with no redeeming value. just as there are evil worthless humans like ted bundy there are bad horses. sociopaths. jmo!! 99.9% are mistreated, abused, in pain, and some, like my Tivar, are hilariously grumpy, to me, but he has has been mean to others, out of pain, and they deserve and need some compassion and some slack but there is that 1% that are purely evil. I just believe that!! My friend marilyn bought a hanoverian that was sold with a disclosure that it had bucked off every person who'd ever been on it. her daughter was a gifted rider and could stay on any horse. that horse not only launched her daughter about twenty times, nearly killing her, but when she hit the ground he would go for her and try to stomp her like a PBR bull, and while i was there, just in the pasture it was constantly running her other horses and cornering them, trying to kick them down. he never rested, just constantly in a vilent frenzied manner running all her horses down to beat them up. I just said wow, cut your losses he's brain damaged or something! She sold him to a rodeo circuit as a bronc and guess what! he never bucked again. I dont know what became of him! I think most really bad horses can be healed with love, but there is that 1%, they exist. there are jeffrey dahmer horses. Janice Janice -- yipie tie yie yo
