jeezo! girl kicked in the head

To me that was pure badness :mad: pony could have turned and ran like it did after the kick. It aimed for the girl as could clearly have kicked over her head had it been a high spirits.
 
thats what i though BB, but i know people always jump to the ponies defence! fox kicked me in the face years ago before i even got him but that was because i was trying to shoo him away from another for a friend whos horse was eating its feed :o
 
weesophz said:
thats what i though BB, but i know people always jump to the ponies defence! fox kicked me in the face years ago before i even got him but that was because i was trying to shoo him away from another for a friend whos horse was eating its feed :o
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I know people do hun I saw on the comments on the Vid profile :(, If she had landed underneath it then yep pony could have booted her as an accident but that was downright vicious and deliberate. Ouchy for your face :eek: worst boot I have had was back of head with a hat on so just a bit of whiplash and a new skully to buy, that girls gonna have a cracking scar :(
 
Black Beastie said:
I know people do hun I saw on the comments on the Vid profile :(, If she had landed underneath it then yep pony could have booted her as an accident but that was downright vicious and deliberate. Ouchy for your face :eek: worst boot I have had was back of head with a hat on so just a bit of whiplash and a new skully to buy, that girls gonna have a cracking scar :(
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yeah exactly! i know a lot of horses get a fright when someone falls off, but that was so nasty! i would be getting rid of it if it was mine in fear it did it again, she was very lucky!
i know but the weird thing was i didnt even feel it, my face just went numb, and i only have a teeny scar at the corner of my mouth! had braces at the time, the inside of my mouth is another story haha.. oh my god you were so lucky you were wearing a hat :eek: that could have been it!
 
GOOD LORD.

That looked like pure malice to me, one thing is for sure though. If that was my horse and that happened there is NO way that my family, boyfriend and friends would condone me keeping it. They would be up in arms!

Personally I'd find that really hard to forgive, and I'd probably get rid.
 
I fell off one of the fillies at work once and she deliberately came back three strides to stamp on me.

Said so to head lad who tried to poo poo it but all the other lads who'd been part of my string confirmed it was the case. Some ponies/horses can just be damn unpleasant at times.

Poor girl, I don't think she did much wrong to deserve that either. Hope it hasn't scarred too badly
 
VERY lucky. Specially when you browse her other videos and you see how often she rides bareback without a hat on. Hopefully she wont do that again.
 
Jesstickle said:
I fell off one of the fillies at work once and she deliberately came back three strides to stamp on me.

Said so to head lad who tried to poo poo it but all the other lads who'd been part of my string confirmed it was the case. Some ponies/horses can just be damn unpleasant at times.

Poor girl, I don't think she did much wrong to deserve that either. Hope it hasn't scarred too badly
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Just shows what some horses really think of us riding them. My horse has deliberately kicked me, but I know exactly why and it was born out of sheer confusion and exasperation. I only realised afterwards what I had done wrong, and it seemed so obvious when I thought about it.

But when a horse kicks you on purpose for no reason other than perhaps they don't like being ridden, then that is a dangerous horse.
 
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Wagtail said:
Just shows what some horses really think of us riding them. My horse has deliberately kicked me, but I know exactly why and it was bourne out of sheer confusion and exasperation. I only realised afterwards what I had done wrong, and it seemed so obvious when I thought about it.

But when a horse kicks you on purpose for no reason other than perhaps they don't like being ridden, then that is a dangerous horse.
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I suspect she might have been in season and sore because it wasn't something she would have done most of the time but even so. Totally surprised me. I've never known one do it before or since.
 
I don't see a malicious horse I see a pi$$ed off one! It can't have been happy to have reacted like that.

Poor girl though - I bet that stung!
 
Poor girl - what a nasty injury! It certainly doesn't look like she did anything to deserve that.

However, I would not be so quick to put what the pony did into a moral framework. That's for humans, not horses. Yes, it was deliberate and vicious - but that doesn't mean the pony was evil or malicious. It seems much more likely to me that the pony's reaction was instinctive rather than 'thought out'. This incident may call for additional precautions suitable for a dangerous horse i.e. one liable to kick, but not for any kind of retribution. (imo)
 
Oh my word. The sound when hoof hits her is horrible. My best friend was kicked in face once she was lucky tho like weesoph she had inside damage and had face plated all from internally so left with no scar. Still has mare now as it was accidental not malicious, but that pony looks vicious a perfectly place kick.
 
fburton said:
However, I would not be so quick to put what the pony did into a moral framework. That's for humans, not horses. Yes, it was deliberate and vicious - but that doesn't mean the pony was evil or malicious. It seems much more likely to me that the pony's reaction was instinctive rather than 'thought out'.
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We had a breaker that another 'trainer' (and I use the word loosely) had said was 'unbreakable' and 'dangerous' - unbreakable because it bucked him off and dangerous because it tried to kick him as he fell. Absolute bo**ocks of course - he was a sweetie. A horse being backed does not buck off a 'person' - he bucks off what he thinks is a predator - and if he's half-way smart - he throws in a kick to stop the predator attacking him from the ground!
 
Glad she's ok.

In the second video reading the description I found it a bit odd someone talks about their horse having her "first rear". Know how many first rear's mine have? None. Ok on video it was a hop up really but pony/horse not happy with something.

Terri
 
fburton said:
Poor girl - what a nasty injury! It certainly doesn't look like she did anything to deserve that.

However, I would not be so quick to put what the pony did into a moral framework. That's for humans, not horses. Yes, it was deliberate and vicious - but that doesn't mean the pony was evil or malicious. It seems much more likely to me that the pony's reaction was instinctive rather than 'thought out'. This incident may call for additional precautions suitable for a dangerous horse i.e. one liable to kick, but not for any kind of retribution. (imo)
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This, and what Janet George said. Horses don't think like humans. They react. Some are more reactive / less tolerant than others. That doesn't make them evil or malicious. It sorts the wheat from the chaff with regard to horsemanship.
 
They might not think like humans but when I come off b1 she avoids stepping on me at all costs and waits by me till I get up. If I annoy them they will both pull faces, b1 will squeal at me and b2 bumps his nose into my side with ears flat back. He also likes a good back hump and yeeha but neither would dump me deliberately or actually bite or kick me. They don't think like people they think like well socialised educated horses. Neither has been disciplined for biting or kicking and b1 has never tried to get me off, can't state for sure for b2 as I didn't back him, they just know not to, always have since being youngsters. They don't think like humans but they are tame animals and I don't think fight or flight automatically explains fierce behaviour.
 
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