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[RC] for Gabi (Ra'anana Farm) - Teresa Van HoveGabi, I may be inviting flames here, but given the facts of your situation; the fact that horses are pretty darn heavily muscled in the stomach, and that they can and do kick each other much harder than your 'rough instructor' can kick them; my only suggestion would be to request of him that he not "pull them hard a few times in the mouth" If you try to get 'nice instuctors' again in the future you had better make sure that they will correct the horses in some fashion and not make excuses for them. Correction could be just the tieing the head to one side; or making the horse work (and I mean WORK) hard in small circles or some other less rough seeming alternative than your current instructor; but the horses might well prefer one good kick in the stomach to enough extra difficult work to make carrying students seem the preferable alternative. I rather doubt that the grain is making the horses act up; horses are not really wired to want to work all day --and the only exception that I know of is when the 'work' is interesting for them - ie they are seeing interesting country &/or visiting with horsey friends while going down the trail; or they are working cattle or something similar that actually provides a bit of interest and is not just 'work'. Therefore horses who are asked to do 'boring' work much of the day are going to see if they can find ways to reduce the workload; acting up, acting wild and crazy, acting tired 'hey it works a wee bit with worry wort owners like myself', etc. My opinion - Teresa =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= http://www.endurance.net/ads/seabiscuit.html Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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