Actually glad she's lame!!

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mynutmeg

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Roo's ridden behaviour has been steadily deteriorating over the last couple of weeks (she's just started coming back into work) and has turned from my nice, sometimes a bit forward and silly but never nasty, girl to being very naughty/almost trying to dump me. She won't even stand for me to get on which is not her at all.
We longreined her tonight and she's moving totally wrong and is almost like she's on a constant left bend to watch, as well as stumbling a bit on her front legs - how I didn't feel it i don't know but it means her behaviour is almost certainly caused by something physical and not just her being too fresh/much for me. It's such a relief as she's got to the stage she's seriously scaring me and as much as I want to ride I'm too scared to get on her.

I've got her physio coming some point in the next week and we'll go from there - no heat or swelling at all in any legs so thinking it's muscular rather than anything else hence physio before vet.

No questions/point to post really but have had almost everyone telling me she's just being naughty and trying to get out of work/has got used to not doing anything for the last couple of weeks and it's so nice that I have a reason for her behaviour - I knew it wasn't like her and it's reassuring to have it confirmed and means I can do something about it!!!
 
The more I see and work with horses the more I believe rarely are they ever "just naughty" they are always trying to tell us something. I know of one whose behaviour issues were so irrational that he had to be pts, no physical issue to be found, maybe even then he was trying to tell us something was wrong in his head?
 
I know my girl and I know she's not ever naught for no reason - part of it with her just now is she's had 2 years off and a foal so there was a bit of 'does she jsut not want to work' as well as when she starts playing up on me (buck/rear and spin all in one go, not massive but terrifying when I'm not confident) I get off as I can't deal with it and cna't afford to get hurt.
She'd work alright for a bit but then start to misbehave, would walk out fine but as soon as we turn around started trying to tank off and doing her bronk thing, some days she was ok, some days she wasn't (by work we're talking 10-15 minutes walk with a little trot - have been building up very slowly to stop her getting sore from over work after being out of work for so long) but when she quite deliberatly walked off and around as soon as I gathered reins to get on several times in a row it became very obvious that she's not happy - she usually stands like a rock - hence why I long reined today so I could watch her for myself and see her move.
I had almost got myself to the point I'd convinced myself I couldn't deal with her and it's such a relief to be able to see that there is a physical/pain cause (just have to work out what now!!!) which means that once thats fixed I should get my nice horse back
 
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