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angelica Reg. Apr 2005	Posted 2015-02-11 9:56 AM Subject: RE: Head shaking...need tips
I Really Love Jeans Posts: 3173 Location: North Dakota	The horse was likely not started properly and it is a behavior issue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Over the years I have seen horses ride just fine that have never had there teeth done, even with serious problems! I am not saying don't do your horses teeth or that its not the problem that your horse has but I would bet it is a behavior issue. When a horse is not trained properly from the beginning and then they learn they don't have to work if they shake and make it impossible to ride them, this is what I have seen with the majority of the horses like this!!! Get her teeth floated then send her to a good trainer for 30 to 60 days and that will likely solve your problem!!!
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run n rate Reg. Feb 2007	Posted 2015-02-11 1:11 PM Subject: RE: Head shaking...need tips
Balance Beam and more... Posts: 11493 Location: 31 lengths farms	I kept trying to tell myself it was behavioral with my mare also. She was 10 and a few years before she had gotten hurt in the horse trailer, I had quite hauling her as it took me almost 2 years to get her fully healed up. She had been doing well at home and I had been thinking it was time to start hauling her again. She kind of started rooting at the bit, had her teeth checked and had them done but they found nothing major. She continued to get a little worse over the fall, first more aggressively rooting at the bit, had teeth looked at again and decided it was behavioral and we went a couple rounds. I tried putting her back in a side pull at one point which she hated, then having the halter or even her fly mask on became an issue as well as she started tipping her head badly. After havig her checked yet again and nothing in her ears and her teeth checked good again we did the come to Jesus meeting. A week later I got on her after barely being able to get her bridle on her, this a mare that I had shown in a WP schooling show on her 6th ride EVER. Her whole life up until the last 6 or so months had been about "what can I do for you???" She loved to please. Got a leg swung over her and picked up the reins and she went nuts. Certifiable. Jumping, leaping, batting her head, full on panic mode. When I finally got her convinced that if she just stopped that I would get off she finally did. As I crawled off her I looked at her really for the first time and say misery and panic in her eye, she was hurting and terrified that she was in trouble AGAIN. Broke my heart that I hadn't really looked beyond her being naughty.
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