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whats the worst behaviour vice/issue your horse has and how do you cope??!!
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D has the neck of a rhino and will cart off poor unsuspecting souls to the nearest patch of grass when being led in from the field. Sorted with a pelham. Looks a bit extreme for a snaffle mouthed horse but much safer for all concerned.
 
Bodey- Escarping under the chain across his stable door and heading for the nearest green stuff! Coping- shut the door quick.

Badger- Stretching out his front leg to get attention. Coping- give him attention.

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Tehe ! He also is the nappiest horse you'll ever meet, and the spookiest. -sigh-.
Riding him is a bit like getting a 5 year old to put coloured shapes in the right box . I'm suprised he doesnt stick his tongue out in concentration!
 
i think my toad could give yours a run for money!! she naps and grunts like a pig! do not ever let them meet!! we could breed a grunting growling banchee piglet!
 
my 16.3hh 19 year old tb is just like a rigg when mares are taken from the field he is so posessive, he acts very bolshy when ridden and on the ground, has very bad manners -rears, bolts you name it, the amount of times my fingertips have had the skin taken off when he has bolted and the lead rope goes though my hand - most people cant believe i still have him and not sent him up the hunt yard for dog meat, i love him non the less, i think he classes me as a familiar friend who puts food on the table! non of these behaviours are from me, his old owner used to let him get away with everything even as a baby, it would have been a different story if it was me training him.
 
He lures people into a false sense of security over the stable door by nuzzling them with his huge squibbly lips after he has been given a treat... then, just as their eyes glaze over and they are praising him for being a lovely affectionate boy, he takes a chunk of arm
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I have asked everyone to stop giving him titbits (he never bites me because I never feed him treats over the door!)and I have warned everyone that he bites... it seems to me that some people get pleasure out of trying to prove me wrong- and I've lost count of the bruises caused by their failure!
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Fudge - getting him to canter in the school when he doesn't want too - solution pray and lots of verbal encouragement as if you use leg he bucks and stops, if you back your leg with your whip he bucks and stops
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Lady - box walking, I haven't found a way to stop her yet, hanging things, ad-lib hay etc all haven't worked.
 
Refusing to be caught (but only by me)

My midwife reckons he is scared of my new 'pregnant' smell as he used to be an angel.

Also spooking unexpectedly and then panicking if you lose balance and p-ing off. Idiot horse
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Being caught and then buggering off - lead rope flying. Breaking out of fields for sport. And, if being led in by an unsuspecting innocent newcomer, he will wander onto yard and then bolt into feed room and help himself!!! He happily backs out of feed room after a good nosh and look like butter wouldn't melt. Although, he has then bought himself an hour of rest when everyone looks on anxiously waiting for a poo to appear!!! Has also managed to "bring the polis (police) to the door" on two occasions.
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Got to be breaking the fence to get to greener grass in the nect field... The number of calls I get going 'Fiiiii.... she's done it again....'...

Way of coping? Any fence possible is electrified (not that Genie cares) and there is somebody on call with a hammer and nails! However one of the fences includes a stile for the public footpath, so cannot be electrified... guess where madam goes to break the fence?
 
Spook-and-spin! Like SouthWestWhippet's horse, he panics and p***es off if you get unbalanced by that first spin. Since this often involves a shoulder-drop, it's not always easy to stay completely in balance...cue ground, meet Carrot Lady. I haven't actually hit the ground very often, but I'd rather not do it again!

Solution: get him out and about as much as possible so he learns to take things in his stride.
 
My boy was almost totally unleadable on the ground when i brought him, now i can read him like a book and just have to growl or shout at him. However the unassuming victim is unaware he is so sweet and will sus out his kill and when they least expect it he will try and run off, howver he only does this with people he knows are a soft touch!! Very clever boy thats why I love him
 
Jack is the strongest horse I've ever known. If he decides he wants to go somewhere there is NO way to change his mind, whether you're riding him or leading him.
He also eats anything you leave drapped over his stable door, included coats, numnah's or anything else that appears edible.
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Jasper bangs the door when he sees his breakfast coming and then when you give him it he puts his ears flat back as if to say "about time!" He's so flippin grumpy except when out riding!
Rascal escapes at every opportunity possible and pulls your zips off your coats!
Jessica doesn't have any she's too pretty!!
 
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