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What a story and what a position you are in. Thought I would take a
different approach to your dilemma, being (kind of in the middle and
trying to steer these people in the right direction.) First of all I agree
with you , there are some animals including horses which cross the line and
are killers even at 2. I for one, respect your opinion of this horse. Let
me share this experience with you.
I raise Welsh Black Mountain Sheep. They are a high buck sheep, though
this is not the reason for having them. My prize ram (which I raised and
handled well, along with my working dogs, became very dangerous. He began
to believe any object his size or smaller was fair game any time. After
the 4th attempt of this ram trying to kill my minni stallions in one week,
I shot him. (in a humane manner) He went threw hot wire, eight strands, and
a strong wood fence, to get to my stallions who were in another pasture. He
challenged a visiter, (it was not breeding season)
Now, the same week I had some one stop in and wanted to buy that ram.
Could have made some money on the guy. (large sum, for sheep.) My neighbor
could not understand why I Took him down instead of selling him............
My answer to him was "I can live with the fact I killed my ram. His life
was MY responsibility from the beginning to the end. I could not sleep at
night worrying whether this ram would turn on a child AGAIN."
It was like the Old Yeller story. You love your animals, But..........
End of story
Sigrid & Lucky ( A victom of our hay shortage, who has been with us about 1
and 1/2 months, Mustang/TB cross, and was glad the meat man missed his
stop..........)
PS To Chris: I would tend to believe Trish is experienced enough to know
a dangerous horse verses a spoiled one. Miss behaving/fear and wanting to
kill are two different issues what ever the age. (No flame here, just
giving Trish a pat on the back for recognizing a potential disaster, being
honest about it and still trying to see if there is a place for this
horse.)
Further more this could be the worlds next champ. Endurance horse. We all
have to decide what price we are willing to pay to find out.......
We have rescued enough horses to know which ones to let
go............perminantly
Or latest 2yr. old gelding, Mustang/TB cross was worth the effort.
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>In a message dated 97-12-22 22:35:53 EST, you write:
>
>Dear group, I have received so many inquiries about the free filly I thought
>I'd post this one so any one interested in this horse will know more:
>
><< I would like to know more about this young filly. Exactly what is it she
> does that makes you think that she is so dangerous. Taking into account
> that she is young and has more than likely never been handled
> professionaly, or by a person willing to commit the time and patients it
> takes to even green break a young horse. We are looking for a mare or filly
> to breed, and raise endurance horses. My personal opinion is that if you
> can't handle the responsibility of training or just the general maintence
> of an animal you should get rid of it. Keeping in mind that death is very
> cruel and a very unreasonable solution to a situation that you obvioulsy
> cannot handle. >>
>
>Dear Chris, as I think I made clear in my post, this is not my horse. I only
>board her. I do not know about her past history--you'd have to ask the owner.
>I do know the filly has been pasture boarded and basically ignored for a year
>and a half before she came to me. Owner is a sweet girl (about 20-21) but
>very timid. Filly has learned that she can push the owner around by behaving
>aggressively. Filly now sincerely believes that she does not have to listen
>to or respect ANY human. She attacked me in my barn the other night. I was
>merely trying to put a halter on her to put her in a stall for the evening
>feeding. I have done this many times before. Filly is let out of stall after
>she eats her grain so It isn't that she didn't want to be stalled. This was
>only one of many incidents, but this filly came very close to injuring me
>badly. That's it. I will forward another post I sent to someone else with
>details of attack. This horse not only has no qualms about swinging and
>kicking at people if they do the slightest thing to annoy her (which includes,
>but is not limited to, petting her neck or trying to brush her long and
>tangled mane!!! I am not talking ABUSE here!!!) but she will also try to
>chase and dominate people by rearing, striking, and biting. You do not have
>to do anything to trigger this conduct other than be in the same pasture with
>her!
> Filly was kept in a large pasture with 4 other horses and free access to
>a large, run-in barn. She is now kept in a smaller but still good sized
>paddock (plenty of room to gallop and run) with attached run-in. I keep one
>other horse in there with her for company. I had to isolate filly as my other
>boarders were becoming frightend to go out in to the pasture and get their
>horses.
> She is fed 2 flakes of good clover-grass hay three times a day, plus a
>coffee can of oats-corn-vitamin supplement evenings.
> You want her, she is yours. Come get her. Please.
>
>Trish
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