I need a kick up the arse!

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After the whole Herbie bolting insedent today was the last thing I needed :( I just feel so fed up now and don't want to play anymore :( Why can't I just have nice well behaved ponies who don't have any health or behavoural issues :(
Anyway as you can tell i'm feeling very sorry for myself at the mo hence the need for the kick up the arse :p Here's what happened today. I worked this morning and when I got home I desided to take Merryn (you know my "good" one) out for a nice ride in the forest. It's a lovely afternoon and the sun is shining so off we went. All was going well. Merryn was behaving himself till we got to the stream. We crossed it as usual and were making our way out the woods on the otherside when Merryn suddenly reared up :eek: I asked him to walk on and he reared up again several times then tried to spin round :mad: I sat tight spun him round the other way then smaked him on his bottom and growled at him to "get on" He then walked on and I made him trot all the way up the big hill. We carried on round the ride like normal almost asif nothing had happened.
I realy don't know where that little episode came from. During the rest of the ride we saw two other horseriders and lots of wild ponies and he didn't react to them at all compared to what he did in the woods :confused:
We continued home and when we got home I gave him a brush and he was being alittle sweetypie.
Oh well we'll be going back to the stream tom and seeing if it happens again. We've been up there loads of times and he's never done it before. I just hope it doesn't become a habbit as he is ment to be for the kids to ride and they can't ride a rearer :( It does make you wonder if it is maybe why he was kept so fat all his life. As now he has lost all the weight and is getting fitter problems are starting to appear :rolleyes:
Oh well i'll just have to see how it goes tom I guess. It's frustraiting though as he can be a little sweetheart just not when he's throwing his weight around :( :(
 
ooh, that's only one incident in a hack, not bad considering - try my Tb :D - sounds like the rest of the time he was good :)
Keep your chin up:)
 
I hope it is Achinghips. To be honest the rears wern't that big. Herbs goes much higer and he's half the size ;) See I just need a darn good kick up the backside. Tomorrow will be another day :)
 
I think it's that time if year. One if mine tried to spin on the road today, never in 6 yrs has he tried before. 3 pigeons in a tree caused this overreaction!! He got a similar reaction from me as yours got from you. No more probs. Bl**dy horses lol.
 
Is this the first time he has acted up, or have there been other incidents?

Ours are all full of spring fever - they went absolutely mad last night just as we were going to get them in, galloping round and round the field, bucking, rearing, having a wonderful time churning up the new grass coming through! :rolleyes:

I had a very bouncy ride yesterday and my daughter had to work her horse in very carefully tonight, he was ready for any excuse to buck for Britain!

Good Luck tomorrow, hopefully if you stay calm and positive and dont anticipate trouble, he will be fine. :)
 
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It's so boring having well behaved, well mannered, always perfect horses...:rolleyes: sounds like they're just being little s**ts as feeling very good, and aren't they NFs? Vie never met one that didn't keep me on my toes (and that I didn't want to strangle at least twice a week!!)
 
As Mrs M said, maybe it was something that he sensed that made him act up, or it could just be the spring grass as they all seem to be acting up atm. Hope he goes back to his normal self soon, update us tomorrow :)
 
you can have my kicked in knee if you would like?? its not much good as I cant bend it but its close to a kick up the bum ;)
Any way hope he behaves better tomorrow
 
My 21 year old TB saw two swans on the road which had wandered from the canal at weekend. He went into meltdown mode. He stood and was physically shaking. The girl I was hacking with is very nervous, so I ended up having to turn back and go home the same way that I had come as she really wouldn't have coped with the reaction I would have got if I had asked mine to try and go past.....she only came out with me because my horse is "bombproof"! I think I've put her off hacking forever!
 
Do you want to know something horrible? Which may make you forgive your pony's outburst...

My sister's horse is an aged schoolmaster, pretty much bombproof. About three years ago, she was hacking in a little coppice local to us, and horse completely freaked out, rearing, shaking, eyes bulging out, refusing to go forwards... Completely irrational behaviour and very much unlike him. We thought nothing of it, until about 6 months later, when a london man was arrested over a murder commited a year before, and he admitted to burying the body in that very same piece of woodland. :o Maybe just a coincidence... But still :S
 
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