Losing your temper.

good question welsh dragon. I think you'll be fine in your horse owning venture if you always ask 'why'!! Theres awlays a reason horses do things even if it takes a while to find it. Pony probably felt perfectly happy and safe where it was and therefore didnt want to leave that situation.
 
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Okay........... I have read everything .... will just say one thing, if this had been posted by someone else they probably would have got jumped on

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I thought that too.

For what its worth, I have no problem with what Henryhorn did - we are all only human, and horses can be so damned stubborn sometimes - especially cantankerous oldies; an occasional loss of temper is inevitable for most. But..........had this been posted by anyone else, they would have been lambasted for cruelty, and possibly even told that, with a temper as bad as that, they should not be allowed to keep a horse!

The people on this forum are fickle, and as such, many opinions given no longer hold much weight with me
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The people on this forum are fickle, and as such, many opinions given no longer hold much weight with me
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Damn!
How will I sleep a wink tonight, now?
S (the fickle)
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Naughty Charlie!

I can honestly say I have never beaten a horse with a whip or lost my temper to a massive degree other than socking a certain horse in the gob when riding if it was being an arse as it was the only way to get it onside
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I once had to get on a horse after she was beaten by a girl because she had misbehaved SJing - she had taken it back to the warm up ring and beaten her and then put her in the stable where the groom found her cowering in a corner with marks all over her
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I had to take her back in to give her a confidence boost but it taught me at an early age that punishing a horse after the act is pointless and simply confusing for the horse at that time.

In HHs case I would prob have gotten the headcollar on and then given him some VERY choice language and made him come in at my, probably rather fast, pace
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However in these circumstances who knows HOW you will react unless you are doing it.
 
I think practically we all know that losing your temper won't help but when it happens you're not thinking logically!

I've never beaten a horse because of losing my temper, and it doesn't happen often but there's been a couple of times I've got really angry and walloped or yanked said horse when its not necessarily going to help. Once my old horse Taz bit me when I was rugging him up and I really shouted at him and chased him round the stable with a plastic shavings fork - didn't hit him, but mind you he didn't do it again!

These days if I feel myself starting to lose my temper I tend to take a deep breath and do something different for a while.
 
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