Does anyone else lose the plot occasionally

[devilwoman]

Feeling a bit guilty this evening, my mare is a habitual mini rearer/spinner/napper when hacking alone, sometimes its just a little bit off our farm then she's great for rest of the hack and sometimes she's just a complete fag and I end up just taking her home cause can't be ased with the fight, today she was a fag, but unfortunatley for her I am PMT and was also a fag, so I forced her rearing, spinning, circling etc, etc, all the way up a quite lane, she frustrated me so bad that I ended up taking her home (which she jog trotted all the way with no napping at all of course bitch lol) then got her in the paddock and lunged her in canter until she was sweating, then got back on and took her back out for a walk, for 2 reasons, 1) to cool her off and 2) to prove the point, this time she hacked out without a single spin/rear and just walked up the lovely quiet lane with lots and lots of praise and pats and telling her what a good girl she is ................ I suspect she didn't relate her bad behaviour to me lunging her with the hump but it made me feel better at the time, although after I calmed down when we came back from second hack, I kept petting her and feeling guilty, and wished really I just gave up in the first place then wouldn't have lost it with her ** sigh**

 

[Hoofprints in the Snow]

Nooooo, you did the right thing, if you had given up she would have won. Well done for putting her in her place.

 

[sychnant]

She didn't want to "work" by going out on a hack. You brought her home and made her work on the lunge. When you tried again to take her out, she went nicely.

Either just too tired to make a fuss, or made the connection that one way or another, she ends up working... good result. Either way she will have realised that behaving on a hack is much easier than not.

 

[Suffolk Punch]

It's the heat I used to ride in the hot days and my horse just would not want to walk let alone canter or gallop. Like us they just get so tired and irritable

 

[devilwoman]

Thanks for the replies, makes me feel a bit better now

Suffolk Pundh, it wasn't hot to be honest, it was nice and breezy and lovely and cool where I am, I never ride in the heat, cant be bothered myself so wouldn't expect her to

 

[ELFSBELLS]

you did the right thing, she did'nt win, which is the main thing, you're not alone in having moments like that!!