groom beating up spoilt pony

Dizzy socks said:
I threw a bucket a pony once...
Offered it a treat - it took the treat, then took a chunk from my shoulder.

This is a practically unhandled but very bolshy -dangerous- 3 year old.
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Once was in the field and a horse ran at me lashing out with it's back legs, if I'd have a bucket I'd have chucked it!! Only had a headcollar and bad aim but it stopped it for long enough for me to get out the gate...
 
Echo Bravo said:
I have a mare that I've had from day one, there is nothing nasty about her, just that she neurotic, if people didn't know her they would say she was dangerous, she's never kicked, bitten or reared but she is sensitive to loud noises which makes her hyper but she is as soft as they come.
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If other people call her dangerous she probably is??? :confused3:
 
If the horse was orphaned and bottle reared then none of us are in a position to comment unless we have handled several orphans. It is very well documented how dangerous bottle reared goals often grow up to be, lacking all respect for their handlers. It's why people go to such enormous lengths to foster orphans onto bereaved mares. It's not difficult to keep them alive, but they go wrong without a mare to guide them.
 
Pigeon anyone can handle her, but she is sensitive to loud noises, like when the rabbit shooters turn up next door. And I have said she has never kicked, bitten, or tried to trample anyone, but if anyone saw her galloping round her paddock when a stranger turns up with a shotgun and a bright orange jacket next door, yes they may class her as dangerous.
 
Gentlegiant88 said:
I meant more in the sense that some horses, particulary dominant ones, will sometimes try and take control, and show you they're boss by flinging a leg at you, or biting you etc. I'm not saying that we should try and be the dominant mare, but that they need to learn that their handler is in control, and that they simply can't get away with being a prat.
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Okay, I see what you mean and it makes complete sense. Describing unruly, strong-willed behaviour as 'dominant' is fine, though I personally doubt they are trying to dominate us in the same way as one horse is dominant to another, and so it's probably not best to deal with them as if it was - if that makes any sense!
 
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