Thread: Free accommodation in Moscow: from hints to specific offers

Whoa, Uncle Pasha. Rock.

My family's horses get all po'd if you leave them behind in the pasture and take others out riding. The QH I had while I was growing up would actually come up and stick his head in bridle and grab the bit in his teeth if you'd stand in the field with it outstretched. If you've got a willing animal that's been trained up well and you treat it properly, they generally love to be ridden.

Originally Posted by Линдзи

Whoa, Uncle Pasha. Rock.

My family's horses get all po'd if you leave them behind in the pasture and take others out riding. The QH I had while I was growing up would actually come up and stick his head in bridle and grab the bit in his teeth if you'd stand in the field with it outstretched. If you've got a willing animal that's been trained up well and you treat it properly, they generally love to be ridden.

I am working on a horse right now that I pushed a little to fast in her trainig and she sort of "fried a fuse" on me there for a while. So I backed completely off her for a few weeks. It was funny, I could tell that she was mad at me for quite a while. She refused to look at me. A week or so. So I ignored her until she began to miss our little training sessions. I think she felt left out seeing all her horse friends doing things without her.

Is she back in the saddle yet?

Originally Posted by brett

Is she back in the saddle yet?

No. I saddle her up and put a snaffle bit on her though but I am still doing ground work her with again.The last time I got on her I switched from a snaffle bit to a Hackamore but it was too much for her brain and she collapsed underneath me three times. In the snaffle she was fine. I over estimated her. This horse has not much fight in her and has been spoiled and babied by her owner. I am used to dealing with a wilder type of horses. At the ranches I was on the horses are more like Mustang. Some of them have seen a human only once in their first five years. She did not even know she had athletic abilities until I started chasing her from afoot, around the corral and into the corners making her do switchbacks and tight turns. I do this routine with her when I first visit her and it has become a game for her. When done she trots up to me for a scratch.