>>> I know just how you feel. I raised Janice's Tivar from a baby and agonized over him for years as he would get pissy and lay his ears back and I thought he hated me. He was my best trail horse and was just so sensible but I thought that he barely tolerated me when I rode him. A friend loved him and he her but then he started bucking when anyone got on. When Karen got him, her vet thought of ulcers which mine did not.
And one of the main reasons I wanted to take Tivar when Ann expressed that she was rather much at the end of her rope with Tivar was because I had had that feeling too. I was so depressed when Gracie developed her bucking problem here, after she'd been started gently and slowly and was well on her way to being a great young horse. We restarted her from the ground twice after the problem first arose, but we'd get to a certain point and the bucking would return. I had saddle fittings for her, and the vet couldn't really find anything. I was really at my wit's end with her after a week-long work-up at Virginia Tech couldn't find any firm diagnosis. The vets at Virginia Tech finally suggested acupuncture for Gracie and that was the miracle she needed. (She has a scar from an old pasture injury on a major meridian - that's all we can guess is her problem.) Tivar needed a fresh start with no pressure, and ulcer treatment. Loftur needed someone to pay attention to his painful back. And I think Angie mainly needs for someone to believe in her and spend some time with her. I think a lot of us reached that level of frustration with our horses at some point along the way. Karen Karen Thomas Wingate, NC No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.17.4/1187 - Release Date: 12/16/2007 11:36 AM
