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RE: [RC] [RC] Odd horse behavior - Laurie DurginOk--I can't help myself-- He is related to my 3 terriers who dig about 4 feet from the septic tank! I think they hear the water and think it is a varmit! ----- ROTFLOL I'm sorry really!!!!!!!Ok , now serious- lets see- I have a tb who paws when he eats--had a pony who pawed if tied at a show--- Had a mare who pawed at creeks and our water trough in summer and taught her colt too ( hers was a way to cool her belly I think.) So, one is excited over food, one is impatient, one wanted to be cool. Horses do "learn " things from watching each other. Where to walk , and eat, how to go into the barn when it rains, how to paw the ice, some are smart and learn things on their own. I have wartched my little herd learn new things from a new horse, like crossing water, tarps aren't monsters, how to eat trees , how to open stall doors, paw the water, etc. I even put my horses where they can see me training another horse. Good detective work and process of elimination will maybe give you the answer. The ulcers may have had something to do with it. Is it a certain season he does this?Could it be a "displacement behavior"? you mentioned Weaving--- Like Cribbing, usually once they start that it affects the brain and they get some sort of sedatiave effect from it. Is it in an area that there maybbe a water source (and he gets carried away and can't stop)? If you interrupt him and get him doing something else, lounge him, ride him, give him a bath, does he go back to this behavior and/or in the same place?If he returns to the same place , there could be somthing "located " there, and he gets carried away--starts logical and ends up neurotic.... And last but not least , he could just be neurotic or have a neurological blip and be having an "episode". Of course a vet can check him out, as soon as he starts this--but vets don't always see them on a day to day basis... Good luck let us know. (ahh, my credentials..always studied animal behavior, have a degree in PSY., had a mentally ill mother and cousin, volunteer work with handicapped kids, and am a nursery director and raised 4 kids, and have had , fish, turtles, hamsters, guinea pigs, rabbits, geese, chickens, lizards, dogs, cats, parakeets, finches, conures, cockiteils, horses and a donkey :0) From: "Rae Callaway" <tallcarabians@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Ridecamp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [RC] Odd horse behavior Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:16:49 -0600 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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