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So many good suggestions and thoughts above I can’t add anything except I’m sorry this is happening and I hope it’s teenagery...

I'd be a bit suspicious it's sort of come on since his surgery. Could he have found the whole thing quite stressful and developed ulcers?

Rise? Or just stick to walk and canter! On a more sensible note, teaching the horse to 'jog' or give a easier to sit trot is very useful.

I’m not sure it is possible to sit a big trot bareback lol…long long stretched down legs, no gripping coupled with very flexible and...

Our youngster gets a lump sometimes on one side of her spine under her saddle, it goes down quickly, isn’t painful and we think perhaps...

I would just keep hand pulling, I ve removed hundreds and hundreds of plants over the past couple of years in a new to me field and each...

Also handy for the cocky colts to bite on instead of the handlers arm.

I think you are over thinking it. Horses get moved on for various reasons, from selling, yard closure, yard changing rules, yard not...

Colt handlers at studs used blue pipe when handling boisterous animals. Kelly Marks advocates a soft tasseled rope as an...

Blue pipe is for hitting them with. It makes a big noise. Or making them more scared of being hit with the pipe than what's scaring...

Well yes quite but speaking as an old lady I might have to beg to differ.😅 This ^ All sounds good to me.

Thank you. That's a good point that hadn't occurred to me. Hopefully in time this will work out as the rescue pony seems happy to be...

It does sound like settling in behaviours but I think in this situation I would ve had a same sex companion, imagine being on your own...

It would depend on the advice, who was giving it and whether I think it's useful to know or not. I've had people suggest things that...

Related to the neurodivergence thread, if I am doing something a certain way I will have solid researched reasons for doing it. So one...