Possibly the most honest ad I have ever seen about a horse....!!

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Browsing a website look for a youngster and encountered this ad - all I can say is that at least she is honest- wonder how she broke her arm though! Have to say my first though was 'shoot it'......!

....... is a 15hh Arab x Welsh Bay Gelding. He is 12years old and is a project / compainion to the right, experianced home only.

..... was given to me to re-train and sell, i've had him for a few months but broke my arm and complications means i am going to be out of action for several more months and cannot handle him.
He is differicult to handle & ride, currently living out at night and stabled during the day and will not live out.

His faults:
Has reared in hand and can be very strong. Currently always handled in a bridle.
Bites & kicks when you tack him up.
Will not stand to be mounted.
Well known for bolting, rearing and bucking when ridden and previous owner stated he threw himself on the floor with her several time.

....... has had a full vet check, as well as dental, back & saddle checked and physio, phyically there is nothing wrong with it so it is all mental/emotional.
He's been with me about 5 months and we have been 90% successful of breaking his ground handling habits, he will now be caught, bridled up and lead in from the field calmly. Stand tied up to be groomed, rugs changed and will stand for the farrier (currently has a full set of shoes on)
We had started getting him to stop biting and kicking when tacking up and gotten him to be ridden on the lunge in the school at walk without throwing a hissy fit but has not been ridden in 3 months due to my injury and no other suitable rider/handler who can help.

He needs a very experianced home that will treat him kindly and be very calm with him. He is a sweet horse but with a lot of issues and the physical scars of having been beaten in the past.

Good in the stable and the field, respect fencing and gentle with his equine friends. Due to my injury i must cut down on the less than easy horses i have so he must find a new home.
 
Woah, least she's honnest.
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Such a shame if shows the physical scars of being beaten, awful as horses are not born like this. It is what we humans do which 90% of the time can cause these issues. Hope they can find someone for him. Like you say at least she is honest, but then if he is that difficult you have no choice otherwise end up with a lawsuit on their hands I guess.
 
Poor, poor horse!
Very nice owner for trying with him and does sound like a genuine sale. Sounds as though progress was being made too...

Hope for a really nice companion/project home for him. There is a pony at a RS I know who was beaten in the past and the YM always makes an extra effort for him to have a nice time with people to make up for not having such a nice time with them in the past.

Very sad though.
 
If he was bigger and more up to weight he is the exact type of horse i would take on. So there are people out there who woudl take something like this on. Its good that they are being honest about him, and it does seem that maybe he has been mismanaged over the years to have become this way.

My friend had an arab x welsh mare that she bought just backed at 6 and she displayed most of the behaviours this chap has. Only she was very sensertive and flighty and had been beaten prior becasue she was misunderstood.
Friend broke her collerbone on the mare when it reared up backwards with her on the yard one day. Although in defense to the mare, friend had her head strapped in and a poorly fitting saddle!

I fianally managed to pesuade friend to friend the mare a new home and the mare is nwo in a home where the owner understand she and has really come on!

During the time friend owned mare i used to help her a lot and the mare was a lot better with consistant handeling and management. however once she moved off theyard i was on , thats when she had the accident as she was just not compatable with the mare.
 
the thought "shoot it" never occured to me. if a horse acts like that then the cause is the treatment that one of its previous owners gave it - the fact that he has been beaten in the past proves this. no horse is born like that and it saddens me to see horses that have resorted to violence purely because they see any human as a threat because of the ways in which they were treated by one person.
 
Actually I genuinely belive that some horses can be born 'wrong'. It is the same as people, some people are just not 'right' when born or develop chemical imbalances in the brain which result in hyper aggressive personalities, depressions, etc, ie psychopaths and manic bi-polar sufferes.

There is no reason that horses are the same. Nature does not get it right every time.

This horse appears to have been created by humans through ill treatment and although this owner is doing the right thing by being so honest, can she guarantee that the horse will always remain in the hands of genuine, knid people and not those that lose there temper?

There is a strong argument that to say that it is better to PTS now whilst the horse is happy rather than sell on and let it end up god know where in the future. It may not be a argument people like, but it is still a valid one.
 
I think i saw this add when i was looking for a horse a few months back. Unfortunatly he is bigger than i wanted.
I would not suggest shooting it. Lucy beleive it or not was worse than that when i first got her. She would try to kill you as soon as look at you. It took me 6 months to get in the field with her and then another 6 months till i gaind her trust enough for her to let me ride her. She was badly treated in her first two homes and had absolutaly no trust of humans at all. I have had the most amazing 12 years with Lucy and she is my pony of a lifetime she does everything i want her to she is ridden and jumped by a 5 yr old and has done some RDA. If i had £1 for everytime i was told to have her shot i would be so rich but i'm just glad i didn't listen to them.
 
I am not saying 'def shoot it' as there are cases, ie Lucy, where horses have found a lovely home and been rehabilitaed. All I am saying is that there is an argument that says PTS as you can not guarantee what will happen later.

Can you imagine what would have happended to Lucy if she had ended up in the wrong hands? Not all horses are so lucky.
 
I am with you as one of my first thoughts was PTS as there is no guaranteed future for an animal like this, I can see someone buying him who thinks they are a great rider and the poor bugger being shipped from dealer to dealer and sale to sale getting more screwed up along the way.
 
If he was mine there's no way I would sell him to strangers, if I couldn't find the right home for him with people that I know or recommended by people I know well I would put him down.
I don't care how decent potential buyers seem, if they're strangers you don't know if you can trust them.
The poor creature doesn't deserve to be sent off to an uncertain future.
 
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