In a message dated 12/17/2007 10:48:23 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lorraine, I think sometimes we expect too much from an animal. Like Dagur. Maybe you should have made a pet out of him first. Really separate him and make him respond to you. Willie was a really good baby and then as a stallion he was a shit. Not bad but would not let me love on him. Didn't want handled that much. I forced him to tolerate me. I tied him up to the tree and washed him and brushed him then blanketed and put clothes on him. After a while he started to like the attention. By the time I gelded him he let me do anything to him. ANYTHING so it was easy to work with the surgery and what ever. Now he gives kisses and loves me so that it's is obvious to other people. He kinda tolerates others and really had gotten to like Sherry totally. So she is the one working him. No one has ever been mean to this horse ever so maybe that is it also. Just like loading. I will not ever fight a horse to load. I never have a problem either. When they came to pick up Willie he refused to load for the daughter. I said, no no no give me that pony and we walked away from the trailer and I gave him a carrot and said come on lets get in and go for a ride. He walked right in. Trust also. Now maybe he is just that type of pony and since I have had him since he was eight months old its different. I hope you get to solve the issues with Dagur. Remember I have the trainer up here that can do anything with a horse. Pedro. Willie is with Sherry since she was working the handicapped issues with him and i had already ridden him. I put Willow with Pedro for six months. Sylvia
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