|
|
 
| I have a horse I've owned for 8 or so years, bought from a really nice guy that saved him from some people who beat him, and made him aggressive, fixed him up and sold him to us many moons ago. This is the best gelding, once in a life time, perfect kids horse, hubby approved. Does any and everything you ask him too, never refused to do anything. But he is stall aggressive and I don't exactly know what to do. For instance today, my dad helped me unload feed and he was in his stall, well naturally my dad made his rounds just checking out the horses and he started to pet this particular horse and before he even reached his stall had his ears penned and nose flaired, well dad starts petting him and he very aggressively tries to but him, I of course get on to him and have dad try to pet him again so I again, got on to him.
He is so aggressive in a stall to where when I went in to pop him he acted as if he was going to charge or turn and kick me. Let me be clear when I said I beat him then, nothing I would consider cruel to animals but I did get my long whip and get after him, then he was taken out and tied to my " patients" pole.
With all this being said, I can walk in his stall and give him his feed, walk in his stall and move him away from his feed, clean his stall while he's in there, brush him, whatever. He always keeps his ears penned but never offered to do more. (He's always done the ear penning sense the day we got him) he's never done what he tired to do to my dad today to me. I'm assuming because he knows he will have a meeting with Jesus...
He doesn't do this anywhere else besides a stall, he's fine everywhere else. And sometimes he doesn't do it in a stall. He has acted like this sense before December.
I don't know how to fix a problem when he doesn't act like that with me and only other people? Any advice? | |
| | |
 Elite Veteran
Posts: 899
Location: Idaho | Sounds like he doesn't respect you when you are in the stall. It doesn't matter where a horse is, they need to respect you no matter what. I would also say maybe check for ulcers? Maybe there is a reason he is doing that? I used to rehab horses, save them, retrain them and sell them. I once went to a Clinton Anderson clinic and they had a horse there, that was abused and the owner rehabbed the horse but he still had issues, and the owner would always relate it to "the horse was abused." Clinton mentioned that it shouldn't matter what the horse had gone through, and that they had said it so much and they had ingrained in their brain, that when it came to training the horse they used it as a crutch and that horse should be trained just like any other horse. And that's what they did.
So if you rule out discomfort with this horse, I would get into that stall and start working him on the ground like you would in a round pen. Make him work, move his feet and respect you. Let him know that that is unacceptable behavior and if he wants to act like that, then hey he is going to get worked. Maybe he is reacting, maybe he thinks he's going to get beat, but how do you get his thinking side of his brain working? As Clinton Anderson says, move his feet. Gain control of his feet, get him thinking, make him respect you. Two eyes, not two heels. | |
| | |
 A Somebody to Everybody
Posts: 41354
 
Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Why or you keeping him in a stall? He sounds very bored and unhappy. | |
| | |
A Somebody to Everybody
Posts: 41354
Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | He sounds like he's got alot of pent up energy and needs room to run and exercise and just need to be turned out.
Edited by Southtxponygirl 2016-04-23 10:47 AM
| |
| | |
 Expert
Posts: 4121
Location: SE Louisiana | Southtxponygirl - 2016-04-23 10:30 AM
Why or you keeping him in a stall? He sounds very bored and unhappy.
THIS!! God did not create the horse to live in a box!!!! I DON'T CARE IF YOU ARE GETTING THE HORSE READY TO GO TO SOME SPECIAL SALE!!! (been there-done that) Let them run!! | |
| | |
Veteran
Posts: 196
Location: Pittsburg, Texas | It sounds to me like the horse just does not like men! He doesn't seem to do this with you. If you don't know how this horse was treated as a colt, as a yearling, as a two year old, and how he was treated during the time he was broke?? Sounds like he was beaten and some of our horses are more fragile than others....just like people. He may never get past not liking men. I would tell your dad to not mess with him at all in the stall. I have a gelding that is now 20 years old. Got him at six and let me tell you he was crazy. As time went by I began to hear more about him.....that horse was a 1D horse, that horse was bad, how did you fix him. He was scared to death to load and scareder to come out of the trailer. Found out at 12 years old he had had a fractured pelvis, also fount out he had been in a trailer wreck,......there are just some things they can't get over. My horse is a 3 - 4D horse and I never pushed him for more, in 14 years he has only hit barrels 5 times and I have won more off of him than most on their 1 D horses. Lots of TLC.....some thinkgs you can't fix, pick your battles. I would never sell my horse because I want to make sure he is never abused again. LOL, I'm the only one that really understands him. | |
| | |
Veteran
Posts: 196
Location: Pittsburg, Texas | DashnDustem....like what you said | |
| |
| |
Folks on-line