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"She came back to me and I didn't even know her and she acted like she didn't know me"
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Dear Keith...
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
howdy,
i have a 6 yr old qh paint / foxtrotter mare; i started her at day one with imprinting > i handling her, rubbing her, haltering, leading picking her feet up, fingers in mouth- rubbing gums etc. did great
by age 6 months she was handling great >> at age 7 months i started with a blanket rubbing and laying it on her. i put her in a round pen and would walk her around getting her to understand what i wanted and coming to me. i'd "sack her" as in noises -movements - objects > i'd let her smell them go up to them on her on at her own time, if she got pushy as in trying to push me out of the way or overrun me i would make her backup and think about it. i tied her to a post to teach her to not fight being tied, while talking-rubbing her and reasuring her all was fine.
by age 2 yrs i could rope her hip > and lead her around with just the rope on her hip, even though she's follow me around anyway. i could pick all 4 feet up / saddle her with weight/ she'd give her head, to the side of the saddle / ,quiet gentle eyes- she'd lick her lips-chew drop her head. she was perfect. i started riding her out of the round pen did great as long as her 34 yr old mom was beside her.
well for some reason one day about 3 weeks of riding she froze up. nomatter what i did she locked up. we tried moving her in opposite direction, ponying her, leading her, popping her nothing worked we did this for over an hour. finally she started to lead as long as no one was "on" her.
a trainer told me to put her back in the roundpen and do what i always did while someone was on her. i did (worked her first) then placed my neice on her and began a session with her. all was fine, out of nowhere someones little dog came in bit her on the pastern and she comminced to buck, well bucks not the word she "exploded" up in the air - kicked out while at same time rolled her belly like a bull and then all four feet off the ground. no way you could stay on. we kept getting back on til we could take 5-6 steps without her exploding and rubbed her down walked her and released her on a "good" note.
everyday for a week we went thru this- same thing over and over.
so i sent her to a "christian" trainer. i saved my money up for 93 days of "riding" she went for 30 days but 1st week he said all was fine 2nd week he said she was the most raunchest bucker he's ever seen, could i leave her for 90 days i agreed. plus i paid for feed. i paid him for 93 days /feed-hay totally $1200.00, she left as a gentle-quiet-loving do anything with, full trust on both our parts and then she was one that had gotten scared and all of a sudden her owner-partner was not doing things with her so she too got depressed left and came back as a 150 lbs lighter - scared shaking jumped at everything, left jaw abscessed, 3 vertibraes out- spooky, and unmanageable. yes i called the trainer and we commenced to argue, he told me she was a lunatic. i know better. both her parents are quiet well behaved, her sire is a grandson of "Bug Alive in '75, her dame is a paint foxtrotter who is a baby sitter and a half. she just past away at the age of 36.
i let her settle back home just petting and rubbing her for a week then back to the round pen to start from stage 1 she picked right back up for me, my girlfriend and her husband took her for a few months to ride her and she still humps her back but if you smooch her on and lift her head she goes on but is still stiff. she seems not to relax. my vet said she was undoubtly rough handled and bulldogged and pushed, where she fought back. i told this trainer i don't baby my horses but i don't let them get away with anything either. if they misbehave i worked them or depends on whether what it is i sometimes make them back up.. and that IF he asked her and she trusted him she would do things willenly if you tried to make her without asking she'd fight. not to man-handle her. she just needed to be rode everyday. she came back to me and i didn't even know her and she acted like she didnt know me.
i am looking for someone to ride her and teach her to be quiet again, i can do it but NOT on a daily bases, as my muscles won't let me anymore. i have gained weight a lot of it, and getting rid of her is NOT an option.
i also have a 3 yr old that i have just been able to do a little ground work she is a qh paint. she halter broke-leads-works in the roundpen comes to me but all i been aable to do.
thanks for listening, and any help is greatly appreciated.
thanks kathi s |
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