ROG
Well-Known Member
It was stated as a fact on the programme that horses are generally afraid of pigs - is that correct ?
I am so sorry that they don't think he can ever be ridden again. Having ridden a 28yr old I know that sometimes the older horses are amazing to ride and really enjoy work. Your horses all look lovely though. I think if anyone's animals did anything to harm my mare because they didn't keep them properly secured I would be angry with them. I really hope it doesn't come to euthanasia with your older horse.I was the Lady today on judge rinder whose horse got injured, there was a lot of information on the day edited out. I have been a member here for a long time and if you search my posts will find that around 9 years ago I posted about my old boy (who was not so old then) being afraid of pigs. I was surprised about how my grey mare reacted as out hacking past pig farms and pigs in fields she has never shown any issues with them.
The statement I made about all horses being afraid unless they had grown up with pigs was quoted from Monty Roberts.
The neighbours pigs were escaping into my field at night over the course of a month, my horses were almost unhandlable during this time, even the little one. The pigs were not only trespassing into my field but into open crop fields beyond and it was the direction of those fields the horses were terrified of and which is why I had no idea until the day the pigs were caught in my field that it was them which had been causing the problem.
From a personal level the whole thing has been horrible my old lad aged 26 never lame a day in his life has torn a front suspensory and damaged a hind tendon sheath, he was before his injuries still sound and successfully competing in veteran showing and is unlikely to be ridden again. The injury occurred end of November 2016 so he still has a few months and a couple more scans before his prognosis will be clear.
Some horses hate pigs and never get better .
Others get used to them .