newboult51
Well-Known Member
I bought my 4 year old Connie in September and our relationship has become progressively worse and despite all of my attempts to push on and build a bond he’s just not getting better.
He’s resisting being turned out in the mornings (I can’t work out why) and will just plant his feet every few steps. On the way back in from the field he’s so bullish he’s almost dangerous which is no fun at all, I get back to his stable shaking and hanging on to him. I have bought a monty Roberts headcollar which he hates but it does help him be a little safer.
In the school he is now almost unrideable as he naps and bucks when asked to go forward, and if I’m honest he has now frightened me.
Even tacking up he has now developed a habit of kicking out as soon as he feels the saddle hit his back (it has been checked and is fine), he also kicks out when I try and pick up his feet.
Hacking out he was ok but has recently begun to nap then too.
Lunging he fights, bucking and fearing leaving me hanging at the end of the lunge line terrified
I’m literally at the end of my tether. I am getting help fro the YO but I just dread going up to the yard twice a day, I can’t sell him in this state and I just don’t know where to go next. I try so hard to treat him with the respect he needs to build a mutual bond but then he tries something else on and I lose it in an instant.
Sorry for the long rant Im sitting here crying while writing this and just don’t know what to try next.
He’s resisting being turned out in the mornings (I can’t work out why) and will just plant his feet every few steps. On the way back in from the field he’s so bullish he’s almost dangerous which is no fun at all, I get back to his stable shaking and hanging on to him. I have bought a monty Roberts headcollar which he hates but it does help him be a little safer.
In the school he is now almost unrideable as he naps and bucks when asked to go forward, and if I’m honest he has now frightened me.
Even tacking up he has now developed a habit of kicking out as soon as he feels the saddle hit his back (it has been checked and is fine), he also kicks out when I try and pick up his feet.
Hacking out he was ok but has recently begun to nap then too.
Lunging he fights, bucking and fearing leaving me hanging at the end of the lunge line terrified
I’m literally at the end of my tether. I am getting help fro the YO but I just dread going up to the yard twice a day, I can’t sell him in this state and I just don’t know where to go next. I try so hard to treat him with the respect he needs to build a mutual bond but then he tries something else on and I lose it in an instant.
Sorry for the long rant Im sitting here crying while writing this and just don’t know what to try next.