Dear Keith...
Monday, May 21, 2007
Can you please help?? I have a 4 year old Tennessee Walker, I bought him about 8 months ago, and he had trust issues, (which I did not know at the time of purchase)he has been a very hard horse to handle.
We have been doing all the ground work with him and he has responded very well or at least I thought until yesterday, I thought our trust issues were mostly behind us. I put his hackamore on him and his saddle on after his
warm-up. He seemed very willing and calm, we were in the round pen and when I asked his permission to get on and he tried to kick me with his back left leg. I was astonished!!!!
I thought how could I have not seen that he wasn't ready. I did some more ground work with him and we played and I loved all over him, but when I tried to get on him again, he did the same thing, and I did not know what to do to make him stop this new kick he had discovered.
I could not ask for a better horse on the ground, but now he has thought of something new and I don't know how to fix this problem. I am trying my best to get him to a safe place, both for him and me too. My dad and husband keep telling me to sell him, but I hate to give up on him when I have gotten so attached and I have put so much time and energy into this horse. I am the type of person who loves animals and I think I can change any animal if enough love and training is givin, but I think my horse is smarter than I am most of the time. I titled this as cow kicking because that is what my dad calls this type of kick. I am from Mississippi and this might just be a southern known slang.
Thank You,
Tina W |
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