foxtrotter
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I am told that fluphenazine is used quite regularly in the eventing world. (SHOULDN'T BE !), and it's not difficult to find a vet to supply it. Anyone could buy reserpine off the internet. Just GOOGLE it!!
I am sorry OP about your situation. I also feel for the venders of horses that the word "miss sold" is used. I bought a lovely TB from a dealer 3 months ago, she was everything he said she was. I chose to get this mare fit for competion, she is nothing like the mare that was originaly sold to me. It was my choice to change her and I have to sit tight with glue now. I think horses change due to a differant environment feeding and work. I feel that it is unfair to blame the seller, your horse was fine when you tried it out and passed a vetting. Horses are horses and react to the situation they are kept and to the knowledge and direction of the owner.
i have the same experience. had my mare for 3years now, wen i 1st had her we just hacked out and tried to get use to each other, but never got a bond (she was on part livery so didnt spend as much time with her) she was panicky and the yard enviroment didnt suit her, she was nothin like the horse i brought, was even tempted to check the blood test that was taken at the vetting.
aftr a year i moved to another yard, diy this time, with better facilities. because i was responsible for everything we started to make a bond and her behaviour completely changed due to the enviroment of the yard, she turned into the horse i brought!!
i started to bring her back up to fitness and started to compete, just for fun, even brought a little box to get out and about, she began to get fit, but due the bad winter we had and then injuries we didnt get to go out.
in march, just as she came back into work from injuries i decided to buy new box so i wudnt need a groom with me (lol) and even tho our scores were low we started to get fitter and better.
she was at peak of fitness in aug, and thats wen our problems started. she was great at home, she her lovely self, but wen went to shows she wud get stupid, came to a point where we cudnt warm up with horses because everytime they came towards us she wud rear/spin/bolt, and she started to get noisey and throw her weight around when travellin, never a problem to load, so not scared, just stupid!
neway, long story, but 2weeks ago we were at uk horse enthusiasts dressage champs at beaverhall, fit as shes ever bin,she was well behaved (bar the warm up!) and we were reserve champ in veteran class.
we loaded to go home and just as we were about to leave, she just went mental, threw herself around in the box and all i heard was metal crashin. jumped out the cab to find a lady screamin and my horse stuck in the living area, with a large laceration from the middle of her head to her left eye, she had thrown herself over the partition and into the back doors, the force threw the doors open. she had also ripped her fore leg open behind the elbow and become wedged on the partition. had lots of cuts under her flanks and massive swelling to her belly (she was stuck for over an hour while fire and rescue cut her out) she also took off half her back heel nicking an artery.
i am lucky to still have and that she didnt break any legs!
its a long story, but just shows that u cant judge a horse from its vetting or when u first try them.
her last owner wud not have known she cud be like this because she didnt take her to shows, needless to say its the end of our competing, as its taken all the fun out of it!
you made the right decision and you shud tell the last owner what had happened, she in no way attempted to help you when u contacted her, doesnt sound like a loving owner to me
i think if you had written this post in the english language we might be able to respond.
Bit harsh
Not 3 and 4??
Bows to a fellow members superior knowledge....
acquit?
Does she mean adequate, do you think?
i think if you had written this post in the english language we might be able to respond.
Oh well, **** happens...move on.
Native ponies, just out of curiosity, are you the same native ponies that once frequented horse gossip?
Native ponies, just out of curiosity, are you the same native ponies that once frequented horse gossip?
what on earth are you on about?
How do you know from what area NP is posting?Seeing as you asked so politely! search on horse gossip - same user name (now banned) same helpful posts - strangely from the same area too
^^^ the reason I don't post as much these days when you get replies like these ^^^
OP as others have said, I don't really think you can say this horse has been miss sold to you unless you have more proof. May I ask why you didn't get bloods taken at the vetting?
Sorry to hear your story and I hope it doesn't put you off horse ownership in the future.
If he was ok when you rode him and initially when you brought him home how do you explain that?
I was gonna respond earlier, but thought it better to wait until the children had gone to bed
Bloody hell, where did all the bad tempered nasty people come? I could understand some of the replies a little if the OP asked for advice or help, but she was only sharing a sad story. Get a grip.
nasty? bad tempered? are you reading the same thread?
OP - I feel really sorry for you, and if it's be a 16.3hh chestnut with flaxen mane n tail I'd have wonder if you were my friend in disgue.
My friend bought a stunning 8yr old 'bombproof confidence giver' for her to go out and have a bit of fun competing on. She was a slightly nervous but competant rider and handler and she spent AGES looking for the right horse.
Tried his out a couple of times, had him vetted and took him home, all excited.
Bucked her off on day 2 and by the next week he was too dangerous to ride. He would behave for while then just turn into an explosive bucking bronco.
She spend THOUSANDS having him investiagted by vets and chiros. Turned out he was so chroincally tense and stiff (despite passing the vetting!) that he needed a month off and mutiple massages just to relax him. She changed his tack, his feed. Had ground work lessons with him, animal communiation, everything.
After months of battling with him (and spend even more money of having his proffesionally schooled) he was no better. At this point I'd have PTS but she couldn't bring herself to do it, so she sent him to a very proffersional breaking and selling yard to be sold on for a fraction of the price she paid for him, and strict instructions he went to a suitable home. After a month of fighting with him the proffesinional rider got a handle on him and he eventually went to a home where he was, as last heard, happy if still a habitial bucker.
It was after he'd been sold that she found out he had always been a serious bucker, never suitable for someone nervous and was also VERY cereal intolerant, making him worse.
Sadly she had no come back with the seller as he was bought from a 'wanted' ad. and this is going to help the OP how?
While I am very sorry to hear the outcome, the horse was ridden twice before purchase, and 'seemed great'. It was also vetted.
I'm not sure how it can be claimed this horse was miss-sold?
and this is going to help the OP how?