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No, you haven't said the wrong thing at all. And I think you're right about Ozzy being dominant. It's sad because he can be so gentle.

Sorry, I'm not making a lot of sense tonight. The routine is ask for step back, give feed, single pat on the neck, move away. We do it...

I am sorry if I misunderstood but you do say here you give him a little pat? I did not mean to make you feel rubbish at all I am sorry...

Sorry Nancykitt, I meant to say, so sorry this happened and hope you recover quickly I got bitten once in my lifetime, many years ago...

Apologies, I hadn't made things clear in my original post. I think dropping the feed and moving away will solve the problem. I'm just...

Not 100% clear on your original post but was the food already on the floor when you asked him to step back (ie temptingly within reach...

Sorry, no, I can see that it read like that but he's asked to step back before being fed. After 6 months of no problem/no aggression at...

I didn't pat him today and I don't ever 'mess around'. Ozzy is asked to step back, he's been happily doing this, he gets his feed, he...

Ah 😳. Now I would not keep a horse on who went out of his way to do that.

Not as bad as Ozzys. We had a smaller pony that was a rescue and we knew he had been starved. He came from a herd of neglected horses...

I understand why you used it, especially as it’s worked with your other horses. I think the issue is doing it sometimes and not others...

No, we always feed them from the other side of the fence. He had to lurch forward some distance to get me. It wasn't just that it was...

In all honesty I’d have quite possibly done the same as you and ended up getting bitten too. Difficult to say as I didn’t observe the...

Once we'd established the request for 'step back' we were using it in a variety of situations and it was working really well. It's...

I’m really sorry this happened, it must have been very shocking and frightening, especially when it came so out of the blue for you. I’m...