"Helping" the traumatised horse

[stangs]

Ever feel like Health & Safety just isn’t for you? Sad that modern day horsemanship doesn’t use the human feet enough? Are you a big believer in the school of ‘compassionate’ horsemanship that involves kicking horses in the stomach?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then boy have I found the horseman for you.

 

[Caol Ila]

I must have got on board Hermosa wrong. There was no spinning or drama or people cheering.

Also, barefoot? Missing a trick there. It's a bit cold for that, though.

That poor horse has wounds on her flank and hip. Poor thing.

 

[Peglo]

That was hard to watch! What part of that poor horse is relaxed….. ??‍

 

[Thundering]

Poor horse.

 

[maya2008]

I’ve seen a fair few videos come up on Facebook from trainers in the USA and that’s very much the philosophy in all of those - the old cowboy way of ‘get on and stay on until the horse stops objecting’.

 

[SEL]

"cowboy broke" was the description the lady who ran my trip in Wyoming used for the horse she got me on. Lots of visible and invisible scars and he was a lovely horse so you had to wonder why he'd ended up like that.

 

[Fjord]

I couldn't watch that. Poor horse.

 

[tristar]

NOT EVEN GOING TO LOOK

 

[Surbie]

That is horrible. Poor horse.

 

[View]

Poor, poor horse.

 

[Goldenstar]

Poor poor mare .

 

[HashRouge]

I actually thought that was going to be a lot more abusive, which possibly speaks volumes for the sort of hideous things you see online. However, I was not expecting it to be so downright weird! I just don't get the point - why on earth is he kicking her with his feet and climbing all over her? Or is that his USP? She seemed like a sweet mare - imagine the result you'd get if you just treated her...normally and sensibly?

 

[Abacus]

I can only assume that it was some sort of attempt at desensitisation - getting her used to, for example, being kicked accidentally when mounting. Not the way I would do this and she looks as though in other hands she’d be very easy. So perhaps he was actually trying to wind her up for dramatic effect. Poor horse.

 

[Birker2020]

She reminds me of a mouse being tormented by a cat or one of those videos of the lion with the baby antelope and the snowflakes saying "aw the lion has adopted the antelope", "the lion is going to let the baby go back to its Mum" when in actual fact its doing the same as the cat and mouse example and toying with its victim before it kills it.

 

[SpotsandBays]

I hope he got his bare feet trodden on a few times in the process! Poor horse

 

[cauda equina]

I'd like to think this was Part 1: How the horse became traumatised
Not the How to fix it bit

 

[Gloi]

I can only assume that it was some sort of attempt at desensitisation - getting her used to, for example, being kicked accidentally when mounting. Not the way I would do this and she looks as though in other hands she’d be very easy. So perhaps he was actually trying to wind her up for dramatic effect. Poor horse.

I thought it was an already broken in horse that kicked if its hindquarters were touched and he was doing some sort of odd desensitization of people touching her quarters. Weird looking at him sticking his feet under her belly round her stifles.

 

[stangs]

I’ve seen a fair few videos come up on Facebook from trainers in the USA and that’s very much the philosophy in all of those - the old cowboy way of ‘get on and stay on until the horse stops objecting’.

I hate the "ride the buck out of them" school, but I prefer even them to this. At least they don't use pretty metaphors to disguise what they're subjecting the horse to, and all the videos I've seen of those types have involved a somewhat fitting bridle. I imagine this poor mare was struggling to breathe when he was holding her tight under the nose.

 

[Ratface]

May he rot in Hell.