Reminds me of a mare I used to ride -long since left us. She could
find my foot and stomp it in a nanosecond. Her aim was extremely
accurate. It wasn't out of spooking - that was an excause. Her real
motive was to show me she was unhappy - she was too accurate for it to
be an accident - and she didn't like what I was telling her to do.
I never cured it - you couldn't we that stubborn mare. But we did
negotiate a truce. I would not tell her anything but we would" discuss
it." After that my toes were safe. Yes a pain in the butt - but she was
one of the best horses I've ever had the pleasure to ride. She just had
an opinion. Of course that pretty much describes the female of any
species ;-).
Truman
JL Thompson wrote:
Person with the broken toe and smashed feet here....
Even though this thread is pretty much done, I just wanted to
clarify. When my gelding spooks while I'm leading him, he doesn't
crash into me, at least not bodily. What he does is jump, and then
land splay-footed in front, kind of crouched and ready for defensive
action from the scarey thing. It's the splay-footed landing that
results in his foot stomping my foot.
He has never crashed his whole body into mine. Just his big
ole' clunky feet. :)
Jennifer
-- "It is necessary to be noble, and yet take humility as a basis
"It
is necessary to be noble, and yet
take humility as a basis.
It is necessary
to be exalted, and yet take modesty as a foundation."
