jeezo! girl kicked in the head

That kick look awful n certianly looks aimed for. Ive got a scar across the top of my head from been kick but was totally my fault walking up behind n tripping over with a plastic bag in hand as I fell the bag smacked the horse n he spun catching my head. Same horse kicked my sister in the face because she held his foot up and squeezed were she thought he had an abbess and he did so kicked out and he kicked a friend in the head when she was walking through the field as the herd was playing and he through a playful buck too close to her. The horse that did all this was the sweetest and most loving horse you could wish to meet, pure bad luck with all 3 of us
 
weesophz said:
i dont know.. i just know i wouldnt trust it to get back on it and therefore would be no point in keeping it!
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But as we don't know the horse, it's history, or what it has maybe had to endure, we probably shouldn't be dismissing him to the big pasture in the sky, which is the only place, IMHO, for a horse that is genuinely dangerous.
Although it could be argued, most horses have the ability to be dangerous, given poor horsemanship.
On the other hand, it could be said that poor horsemanship is dangerous, indeed, "life threatening" or at very least life limiting, for many many horses......
 
My first pony used to do this, every time you fell off.

Was it deliberate, you bet. He was a vicious sod, put somebody in hospital when he cracked their skull being clipped and there's only one person from that time who he didn't throw off.

Could jump like a kangaroo though and we had so much fun over the years I had him. Ended up giving him to somebody who had been riding him for me for a couple of years and knew what he was like. Though he did calm down as he got older.

Learnt quickly to get the hell away when fallen off. And I was lucky.
 
Well, i don't see an evil or malicious pony there but hey, maybe the video didn't play properly for me? It doesn't show what happened or how the girl fell off - was she jumping a fence bareback (I saw poles and what looked like a jump wing on the floor?). The pony looks startled and that to me looked like an instintive kick out reaction to the person being on the floor behind it - ie how a predator would be. The pony just looks scared to be honest and I wonder what happened to make it react like that. It was just unfortunate in my opinion that the kick met with the girl's head and she was very lucky she had a hat on.
 
Norfolk Pie said:
But as we don't know the horse, it's history, or what it has maybe had to endure, we probably shouldn't be dismissing him to the big pasture in the sky, which is the only place, IMHO, for a horse that is genuinely dangerous.
Although it could be argued, most horses have the ability to be dangerous, given poor horsemanship.
On the other hand, it could be said that poor horsemanship is dangerous, indeed, "life threatening" or at very least life limiting, for many many horses......
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i said when i posted the link i didnt know the horse haha, im just saying if it was mine i wouldnt want him anymore if he did that to me, i know id be too scared in case it happened again.
 
ladyt25 said:
Well, i don't see an evil or malicious pony there but hey, maybe the video didn't play properly for me? It doesn't show what happened or how the girl fell off - was she jumping a fence bareback (I saw poles and what looked like a jump wing on the floor?). The pony looks startled and that to me looked like an instintive kick out reaction to the person being on the floor behind it - ie how a predator would be. The pony just looks scared to be honest and I wonder what happened to make it react like that. It was just unfortunate in my opinion that the kick met with the girl's head and she was very lucky she had a hat on.
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true true, but there are other videos, another link was posted earlier of the same pony and girl falling off but he never tried to kick her that time..
 
weesophz said:
true true, but there are other videos, another link was posted earlier of the same pony and girl falling off but he never tried to kick her that time..
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Horses are unpredictable (or, at least, not 100% predictable) animals. Still, I'm sure the horse had a 'good' (for a horse) reason to kick on one occasion and not the other.
 
It's just how horses react sometimes though if they think there's something behind them. Christ my horse will do it on occasion if you are trying to shoo him away but he is not malcious in the slightest, he's just gets a bit full of himself sometimes. If his hoof connected though (and it's been close before!) it would do some serious damage!

If that video showed the horse coming towards her and deliberately attacking her then maybe I would think differently. However, I'd still want to know what on earth someone had done to it to make it behave in that way!
 
ladyt25 said:
If that video showed the horse coming towards her and deliberately attacking her then maybe I would think differently. However, I'd still want to know what on earth someone had done to it to make it behave in that way!
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happened to me and I hadn't done a damn thing to it. it was my favourite horse on the yard, on my row so I did it and I rode it most days too.

Go figure!
 
just noticed it looks like im trying to make the pony look evil haha! im totally not, just to me in that video it seemed mean! i know a few horses that have a definite mean streak! but yeah i dont know what happened before she fell off, just know i wouldnt put myself in the position where i might fall off that pony again!
 
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I remember those pics Puppy - did you get kicked square in the face? That is one thing that I really hope I never, ever have to face. I know of one girl who had her teeth kicked out and i have had some close shaves with hooves flying past my face but i cannot imagine the pain of the actual impact! Ouch!
 
i dont know about puppy but when i was kicked in the face i felt a thud then my face just went numb, like pins and needles, with a lot of blood pouring out my mouth.. its the pain in the days after thats the worst!
 
My first horse kicked me in the face and shattered my jaw. She was aiming for another horse and got me instead. Didn't feel it but the noise is horrible! I've had loads of surgery, been plated and rebroken twice and had a bone graft. I've had orthodontics, been wired shut and had dental implants. All thereis to see is a 2" scar on my chin. The inside's a mess though. The moral of this story is don't do stupid things, never forget they are animals and behave as such, wear a hat and do not think you are immortal. I am very lucky she didn't kill me.
 
Yep, I was double barreled square in the face, by a shod horse. It wasn't her fault. I was following vet's orders of walking in hand after 3 weeks boxrest and she got spooked, took off, and happened to catch me in the crossfire.

I broke both eye sockets, both cheekbones, my nose and sinuses had to be rebuilt (in a surgery 2 1/2 year later - it's been a long road) and my jaw was broken multiple times; so much so that when I came too (in the fens, on my own, in dec, with no signal at first) I couldn't make myself understood by the person at the end of 999 to tell them where I was. My chin was pretty much on my chest as the whole jaw was demolished. That wound between my lip and mouth that is taped/stitched in the pictures was right through to the bone; my nose and mouth were pretty much one big hole. I am very lucky to be alive, but I have scars, chronic pain, quite a few health problems and an autoimmune disease to show for it.

This is why I get so cross about photos of people riding without a hat; never underestimate the damage a head injury can do, and the impact of your life and family.

My memory of it is a blur of grey feet, a crack, and then blackness.
 
both sound so painful :( :eek: glad i couldnt feel mine. wish id kept the pictures i took of my face, but i got upset when i looked at them, i bet it would look like nothing compared to yours though puppy! i feel so lucky that all i have to show for it is a 1cm scar and tmj (which although is painful and annoying is nothing by your standards!)
 
Ouch! Poor Puppy. I've been kicked in the mouth too, with much the same results. Horse wasn't aiming at me, just a combination of face in the wrong place. Oh, and wearing a hat too, so that doesn't help really. ALL horses are dangerous, without even trying. Agree, the sound is the worst bit - like a very large apple hitting concrete very hard.
 
Oh my goodness - I feel a little sick after watching that. I think we forget the damage horses can do, unintentionally most of the time as we rub along fine the majority of the time
 
Some really frightening stories on here.

Going back to the vid...well if she hadn't had a hat on...

I am not sure about the bareback thing... but anyway can't criticise necessarily for that.

That kick was nasty but you know it struck me as a pony that is thoroughly peed off. Had the pony been asked to do this jump a number of times? Was it sour? You can't tell but that is the impression I am getting.

I can't see the pony thinking ooh look she's on the floor lets boot her - that is human thinking not pony thinking


Its hard not knowing or seeing the whole series of events but my thoughts are that the pony is a peeved off pony not a malicious pony? Possibly wrong.


Edited post to add on watching again reins are flapping madly round pony's legs - could be reason pony kicked out and rider got in crossfire.
 
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JanetGeorge said:
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!
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Absolutely.
 
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