Merlod
Well-Known Member
it makes me really sad, why are so many of them horrors and monsters . Why do people let their shetlands bite and kick and generally be rude? Mine all have lovely manners, they wouldnt dare to bite, barge etc etc (I breed standards). I also have a mini (along the lines of fionwinnies titchy) that my 4 year old son rides and handles who is wonderful. Id have any of them in 16hh. They are like any other horse, you just have to put in the work.
I think you missed the light-hearted tone. Yes, I did say I would probably be dead which may be an exaggeration but my shetland also has manners, never bites or kicks. I broke him myself, rides all day on or off the leadrein can be handled by children and I also broke him to drive and compete him in leasure classes. I handle and train him in the same way I do my riding horses and he has a pleasure to own, but they are very VERY intelligent creatues and also have a stread of Scottish attitude, you should see mine chasing and kicking the 15hh Arab in the field or squaling and leaping his way around an in-hand class, even though he has entered tons of in-hand before (and won) or deciding he'd is going to rocket out of the field like a greased weasel and run around the yard without being caught.