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RE: [RC] [RC] Leaving horse's buddy behind to go to rides - Jo Ann Knight-------Original Message------- From: Ranelle Rubin Date: 9/21/2006 5:24:19 PM To: jlthompson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: [RC] [RC] Leaving horse's buddy behind to go to rides Jennifer, I have a mare that is so herdy she bawled for over 3 hrs. when I sold the gelding. She ran back and forth for over 2hrs, I was getting real worried. Nearly 8 months later, my mare was loose in the yard (property gated) mowing my lawn for me. I opened the gate to the pasture the gelding was kept in and she was out of sight around corner of house. Suddenly I herd her tearing around the corner up to the gate. She stopped looked around and bawled, so did I. I never bought a goat, was not sure what she would do to it. She'd probably kill a steer if she got close enough to one, she both fears and chases them! Finally put her in boarding last year. She was a maniac trying to watch every horse on the place when it moved around. Took her from October to March to settle and even then still very watchfull. It is a year now and she has settled into her old sweet self. But the trainer said she probably would never be safe to ride alone. Years ago when I took her out alone we did fairly well, but when she did see other horses that were very far away, she would begin to argue with me and bow the back, so I had to get her mind on running up the trail to stop that. My thought is that she may never be able to handle being without another horse. Jo Ann From: Jennifer Fleet <jlthompson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Ridecamp <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [RC] Leaving horse's buddy behind to go to rides Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:50:18 -0700 Hi all, I recently moved to Florida from SoCal, and I finally have horse property. Yay! We will be moving my two horses to the property in two weeks, after escrow closes. I realize that I will be facing a problem that I never had before, while boarding. That is, how do I leave my mare behind, all alone, when I want to take my gelding to rides? Others must have this problem and I'm wondering how they deal with it. Does the horse left behind eventually get used to being left and chill out? Has anybody had any tragedies happen? I am having horrible thoughts of her running herself to death, or running through a fence and getting injured, or trying to climb out of her stall and getting hurt (if I put her in the barn). I don't know what would be safest, putting her in a stall while I'm gone, or leaving her in the pasture, or what. Any advice in this area would be appreciated. My plan for now, is to start out by either hand walking or riding my gelding around the property, gradually going farther and farther away, in longer increments of time. At the boarding facility where they are now (a place here in FL - just temporary) they both freak out if I take the other out of their sight. But it's just noise at this point (LOTS of screaming) and there are still other horses around. I have considered taking on a boarder to alleviate the problem and may still do it if I find the perfect person, but my homeowner's insurance policy strictly forbids it, and I'm scared to death of the liability factor if something were to happen and I'm not covered. And I don't want to own another critter just to make "three"....I've got enough mouths to feed already. Thanks for any ideas or words of wisdom! Jennifer =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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