Please Can Someone Give me a Bit of a Pep Talk??!! :-(

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PercyMum

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Well, I have posted on here a fair bit about my disasterous horses and their KSS and bust tendons. But at long last I thought I had it all fixed. Perce is back in work after 4 months of careful lunging and looked great, then got ulcers. Thats now sorted but he looks a bit like a 17.2hh bag of bones, despite the vet and I doing everything to put weight back on. Now it seems to coming back on VERY slowly. Back riding and about to start jumping but...

... He still wont take the contact forward, still rushes off in extension, is over bent and I think he looks worse than when I got him. At that point he had a cracked wolf tooth, a badly fitting saddle and a bit that was trashing his mouth. He has never been easy and thats fine but I feel like I have done all that is possible to sort him but I have gone nowhere. I know that pain memory is problem with KSS but I feel like I haven't gone forward at all. I would post a piccie but I cant work out how to do it!

Jeez, I am a moaning cow! I should be grateful for all that I have but I have put my heart and soul into my boys and I just want them to be right.

Any advice/sympathy/people telling me to man up and get a grip gratefully received!!! :p
 
I always remember when I got my first horse that someone very experienced said to me, "No matter how good you are, no matter how good your horse is, its always one step forward and two steps back with horses,". It sounds like you are experiencing your two steps back but it WILL pay off. It will just take time to see that hard work turn into results. By then, you'll thinkyour boys are te most fantastic horses alive and you would be right!
 
indiat said:
I always remember when I got my first horse that someone very experienced said to me, "No matter how good you are, no matter how good your horse is, its always one step forward and two steps back with horses,". It sounds like you are experiencing your two steps back but it WILL pay off. It will just take time to see that hard work turn into results. By then, you'll thinkyour boys are te most fantastic horses alive and you would be right!
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Thank you both (can't work out how to do 2 quotes!). I guess it's just a down week! I have to say though, I do already think that I own the two bestest boys ever, even if they are ornaments for the rest of their days :D

Wonder if I could hire them out as lawn ornaments at posh do's? They are both VERY pretty !!!??? :D
 
I'd say TIME and take things slowly, if you feel that you cann't do that sell him on and buy something that you can take on faster. It sounds like he's had a really rough time and that mentally and physically he's coming on slower that you want, put yourself where he is If you had gone through all he has, you wouldn't be fitting fit either.
 
PercyMum said:
Thank you both (can't work out how to do 2 quotes!). I guess it's just a down week! I have to say though, I do already think that I own the two bestest boys ever, even if they are ornaments for the rest of their days :D

Wonder if I could hire them out as lawn ornaments at posh do's? They are both VERY pretty !!!??? :D
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I'm sure there is a market for it! :D
 
Echo Bravo said:
I'd say TIME and take things slowly, if you feel that you cann't do that sell him on and buy something that you can take on faster. It sounds like he's had a really rough time and that mentally and physically he's coming on slower that you want, put yourself where he is If you had gone through all he has, you wouldn't be fitting fit either.
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I have taken things very slowly with him- and taken numerous veterinary advice in the process. And I don't think selling a horse like him is very responsible, not that I ever would. I have no problems with how long it takes, it's more that I don't feel he is moving forward and I am concerned about him, not me!!!
 
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