SophieLouBee
Well-Known Member
My 15.1 pba mare that i have just started advertising was just the biggest idiot yesterday!
I know it's due to having time off and whatever but god it was awful.
She has suddenly developed total separation anxiety due to not being away from my 16.2 pbaxshire. This is total ridiculous as they hated eachother when she first came, and now they only tolerate eachother. It also doesn't help that the big lad is a little on the thick side at times.
So, we have an utter breakdown when we are taken from the field and tied up (she hates being tied up alone anyway). Won't stand still, barging, screaming and when attempting to pick out feet, stomping and kicking in a tantrum.
So finally we get to tacking up, which she is alright with, apart from clamping her teeth shut and refusing to have the bit in her mouth.
I lead her out of the gate as we have to walk past a dual carridge way to get to the lane, she's on the end of the rope snorting at everything.
I come to get on her and she is just being a total wazzock, being really rude and bolshy, so eventually i get some submission by FORCING a step back out of her (starting to lose my temper by now). I get on and she is slightly on her toes but not too bad, but the whole way round we have this awful screaming and head shaking (not helped by dumbo back at the feild calling back to her, even though he knows full well where she has gone DURRRRR)
So eventually we get back after a mear 15 mins, as I have had enough by then. Horse exhausted and sweating like hell, so I have to hang around in the drizzle and wait for it to cool off enough to have its turnout back on so I can put the damn thing out.
STRESSSSS.
So, I come home thinking that the horse i just rode is not worth half what it is advertised for. (I now have a more rational view that she was having an off day). I have come up with a strict plan for next week to get both our minds back on track! I can just imagine if she'd had this off day when someone came to see her, people would think I was an utter mentalist...
Rant over.
I know it's due to having time off and whatever but god it was awful.
She has suddenly developed total separation anxiety due to not being away from my 16.2 pbaxshire. This is total ridiculous as they hated eachother when she first came, and now they only tolerate eachother. It also doesn't help that the big lad is a little on the thick side at times.
So, we have an utter breakdown when we are taken from the field and tied up (she hates being tied up alone anyway). Won't stand still, barging, screaming and when attempting to pick out feet, stomping and kicking in a tantrum.
So finally we get to tacking up, which she is alright with, apart from clamping her teeth shut and refusing to have the bit in her mouth.
I lead her out of the gate as we have to walk past a dual carridge way to get to the lane, she's on the end of the rope snorting at everything.
I come to get on her and she is just being a total wazzock, being really rude and bolshy, so eventually i get some submission by FORCING a step back out of her (starting to lose my temper by now). I get on and she is slightly on her toes but not too bad, but the whole way round we have this awful screaming and head shaking (not helped by dumbo back at the feild calling back to her, even though he knows full well where she has gone DURRRRR)
So eventually we get back after a mear 15 mins, as I have had enough by then. Horse exhausted and sweating like hell, so I have to hang around in the drizzle and wait for it to cool off enough to have its turnout back on so I can put the damn thing out.
STRESSSSS.
So, I come home thinking that the horse i just rode is not worth half what it is advertised for. (I now have a more rational view that she was having an off day). I have come up with a strict plan for next week to get both our minds back on track! I can just imagine if she'd had this off day when someone came to see her, people would think I was an utter mentalist...
Rant over.
