charlie55
Well-Known Member
Before i kill him!! Well, before he kills me!
17hh Dutch warmblood, 11 years old, dressage lad. Complete and utter tart about everything!! He is the most spookiest horse i have ever known and its getting to the stage now i have to be very careful riding him. A couple of instances: sunday hacking down the road, a truck was parked in a field we had to go past, stopped, spun, tryed cantering off down the road, had this for 5 mins until i managed to cross him over the road and walk on the wrong side of the road to get him passed it.
Another was tonight, took him in the indoor school and someone had left a couple of jumps up, that means its the end of the world for Jack! Spooking every 5 mins as if the jumps were alive, then because he is such a sensitive lad and the jumps upset him, every noise was deadly. Someone shut their car door and we spooked 90mph to the side, spun and stood snorting! And to top it all off i sneezed god i thought i was going to die :/
He has always been a sensitive and spooky lad but the fitter he is getting the worse he is getting. Im actually dreading our first show on the 30th! Has anyone had this problem and found a fab calmer etc that helped? At the moment he is on:
Hi Fi good doer
Lo cal balancer
Joint supplement
Magnitude
We can no longer ride in the outdoor school as god forbid a birds flys out of a bush! Out hacking we only stick to walk and trot because if we have a canter and something at the side spooks him, he will charge sideways, runs blind and will go through absolutley anything to get away from these demons he keeps seeing! Nearly knocked himself out on a tree the one and only time we cantered on a hack!! Ive had hes eyesight checked and everything is fine.
I think he needs to get out for a couple of gallops, have fun doing some jumping and xc etc to make him get over himself but he is just too spooky and dangerous to do this. If i ever managed to get him near a jump to go over it, (which i dout will ever happen) that would be fab, but if he ever knocked a pole and it made a noise then i have no idea what he would do!
Please help me lol, losing the will to live at the moment with him!
Sorry its long! x
17hh Dutch warmblood, 11 years old, dressage lad. Complete and utter tart about everything!! He is the most spookiest horse i have ever known and its getting to the stage now i have to be very careful riding him. A couple of instances: sunday hacking down the road, a truck was parked in a field we had to go past, stopped, spun, tryed cantering off down the road, had this for 5 mins until i managed to cross him over the road and walk on the wrong side of the road to get him passed it.
Another was tonight, took him in the indoor school and someone had left a couple of jumps up, that means its the end of the world for Jack! Spooking every 5 mins as if the jumps were alive, then because he is such a sensitive lad and the jumps upset him, every noise was deadly. Someone shut their car door and we spooked 90mph to the side, spun and stood snorting! And to top it all off i sneezed god i thought i was going to die :/
He has always been a sensitive and spooky lad but the fitter he is getting the worse he is getting. Im actually dreading our first show on the 30th! Has anyone had this problem and found a fab calmer etc that helped? At the moment he is on:
Hi Fi good doer
Lo cal balancer
Joint supplement
Magnitude
We can no longer ride in the outdoor school as god forbid a birds flys out of a bush! Out hacking we only stick to walk and trot because if we have a canter and something at the side spooks him, he will charge sideways, runs blind and will go through absolutley anything to get away from these demons he keeps seeing! Nearly knocked himself out on a tree the one and only time we cantered on a hack!! Ive had hes eyesight checked and everything is fine.
I think he needs to get out for a couple of gallops, have fun doing some jumping and xc etc to make him get over himself but he is just too spooky and dangerous to do this. If i ever managed to get him near a jump to go over it, (which i dout will ever happen) that would be fab, but if he ever knocked a pole and it made a noise then i have no idea what he would do!
Please help me lol, losing the will to live at the moment with him!
Sorry its long! x
