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| I just wanted to ask if anyone had ever delt with a horse that they thought had actual mental problems! haha
I had an interesting experience a few months ago, I found a horse a neighbor had and we agreed that I could try her out for a few weeks. I was looking for a kid safe little horse I could give lessons on. Anyways, I decided to section off my gelding's pen, and they each had half of it. The gelding stood with his butt to her, and didn't even acknowledge her, he's pretty antisocial. A few days later there was a really cold rain and I decided to let them be together in the pen so they could both stand in the barn. They got along fine, my gelding would kick at her if she got too close but they peacefully kept there distance. About a day later I took my gelding to a two day barrel race, overnight. As soon as we left that mare started pacing a rut in the ground by the gate, my dad did chores at night and tossed her a feeder of hay, when I came home the next day she was still pacing 100 miles an hour, there was a three foot rut in the ground, her entire body was foaming and drenched in sweat, and she hadn't touched her grain, hay, or water bucket. As soon as I turned my gelding out into the pen, she was all over him,nickering, and extremely happy, he turned right around and double barrel kicked her in the side, pinned his ears and walked away. The crazy part was we had a whole pen of horses across the fence the whole time, but she went nuts when my boy was gone!! 
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  Warmblood with Wings
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Location: Florida.. | LOL I know a few relationships like that. cant live with them , cant live without them  |
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| I was given an older mare last year. She appeared to be quite dominant and wanted to fight with the alpha mare so I kept them in separate pens next to each other, each with other horses. After a few months I turned them out together and the inevitable battle ensued and she lost (nobody got hurt). She can now not STAND to have that alpha mare out of her sight. If I want to leg her up, I ride the buckskin and this older mare runs and screams until we get back. I had hoped to haul them both but find I o longer have the patience to deal with the drama of riding one and leaving the other at the trailer.
I just found out that this mare had never been turned out WITH other horses (never got to develop normal social skills and bonds?), maybe that has something to do with it. |
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Location: East Tennessee but who knows?! | Sounds like a typical mare. Most mares I've had have had love/hate relationships. Can't stand another horse and then frets the second they leave. |
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| I have a horse with a mental problem, and he is dangerous. He just flips and switch and will try to kill you with very little provocation. He is appaloosa bred, and I've never met an app that didn't have a bit of a mental issue. |
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| When I buy a horse I always take a close look at the owner
then I know what kind of drama queen I am buying ...
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Warmblood with Wings
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Location: Florida.. | BARRELHORSE USA - 2015-09-29 10:23 PM When I buy a horse I always take a close look at the owner then I know what kind of drama queen I am buying ...
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Miss Southern Sunshine
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Location: South Central Florida | We have 1. she is off the track and I believe she was drugged when we bought her. She bonds like your story INSTANTLY. We pastured her alone for about 3 months after she foaled last year and she did great.
We could haul her to a show alone. Park and horses all around. In an hour or two the person parked beside us, total strangers, would saddle up their horse and ride off and she would GO CRAZY. She never reared or bucked but would paw a 3' hole in the ground.
We learned if we put her in the horse trailer she was totally happy. she dug a hole so deep once at a show that the ground crew had to bring a loader to fill the 3' deep 4' wide hole. I was suprised they didn't tell me to never come back.
In the trailer she is happy as a clam.
She does have a few other "issues" but we managed them. Weird part, when she was pastured alone, no other horses in sight, she did fine. She is a hard keeper, but she does eat even when she is nervous.
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Location: Durango CO | I have a 13 year old mare who gets extremely attached to other horses. Her story is the same as yours. She is run a fence line, paw to China and wig the he!! out if she goes to a show and gets stalled where she cannot see her friend. I haul her alone a lot and she is fine. I do that for me more than her. She will ride out alone just fine because she knows it's time to work.
You didn't ask for advice so I won't give any but I am here to empathize. Some mares are a huge PITA |
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Location: "...way down south in the Everglades..." | Oh I can commiserate with this post...
I have one...but this one's a gelding. He has EXTREME separation anxiety and is beyond buddy sour. He was a starved rescue so I have no idea what kind of things happened to him in the past, but whatever happened I do believe made him mental.
I brought him in with my main barrel mare and they were fine...except he would lose it if I took her away from him to ride (even if he could see her) and definitely when I hauled her to shows. He would race around into a lather...pace trenches into the fence line. He seemed to just be madly in love with her...and then I bring another mare into the barn and he lost his mind and ran my mare that he'd been with for 5 years through the fence. She's still not sound to even ride. The weirdest thing is that the new mare wasn't even turned out with them. And now, he cannot be turned out with my now lame barrel mare as he attacks her everytime. But he loves his new mare now. He's a flippin' nut job for sure....
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