*Rant* apparently I should be dealing with problem horses!!!!!!!!!!

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Please excuse me while I have a little rant. :mad:

So I get a phone call from someone who has got my number from a friend who I helped when her horse refused to be stabled.
This person is having trouble loading her horse and wondered if I could help her.
"Sure" I said "I'll see what I can do"
"who's method do you use?" she asked
"Sorry?" I replyed "What do you mean"
"How will you get my horse to load?" She asked
"It all depends on why he won't go in the box. Every horse is diffrent. I need to see the horse and acess the situation" I replyed.
Then she responded with "Well if you havn't studyed under anyone and you don't use a method you shouldn't be advertising yourself as dealing with problem horses"
I calmly explained that she phoned me on the recomendation from a friend, I don't advertise myself as a horse whisperer or any such thing. I do what I do for the good of the horse.
Then she hung up.
Honestly If I had said I was going to beat the horse over the head with a rope or chase it round a pen till it was to tired to argue I think she would have said ok and parted with her money quite happily with no guarantee it would work on that horse. :rolleyes:
Hayho each to there own I suppose but maybe I should start my own form of natural horsemanship.
No ***** horsemanship.
From now on if anyone wants my advise it will cost £200 just for me to consider my answer, £200 for me to give it to you and £500 if you want me to show you how it's done ;) :p :D :D
Give me time to come up with some expensive equipment, that you don't realy need but i'll perswade you you do ;)
But then again thats not realy me. I'll just keep helping those who want my help and do everything I do for the good of the horse. :)
 
Tizzy said:
You should have told her you sprinkle fairy dust on them and this normally works.:D
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:D:D:D Love it.

Jenni_ To true ;)


hoggedmane Trouble is I can't explain the method. It's diffrent on each horse. It realy would depend why the horse isn't going in. Thats what she didn't get :rolleyes: If he's scared I would deal with him difrently than if he was just taking the pee.

zaminda "maybe he doesn't feel like it today, Try again tomorrow" ;) :p :D
 
I think you should claim to have trained under "Komon Senz", said with a strong French (or Hungarian or German) accent... quite like that, might use it myself!
 
Oh Laura I feel your pain!!!! I could have written this myself!! I had a horse in a couple of weeks ago because the owner couldn't handle him (not that she actually said so or indeed told me all the things he had done with her - until afterwards :rolleyes:). It was pretty obvious there were a lot of physical issues with him as well as lack of handling, so I rang and told her all that I had discovered and what I was doing and she said oh yes, we had a natural horsemanship person come and work with him and he said to do that. You are doing natural horsemanship. Er, no, I am using my common sense and years of experience working with horses :D:D Difference is I don't charge as much ;)
 
Rowreach tell me about it. Because Herbie will follow me round the school in walk, trot, canter and over jumps. I'm forever being told I "Do join-up" with him. I have never done this with him and I couldn't even if I wanted to. If I try to send him away from me he shuts down and just lays down. Our bond is to strong now.
This bond was achieved through paitents, love and alot of time. NOT chasing him round a pen till he was to tired to argue anymore and just gave in and followed me round :mad: ;) :p :D :D
 
Hehe, I know this one too, I had a girl come out to view a horse i had for sale and I explained how I had been dealing with his separation anxiety problems by just riding him a little bit further from home every day and taking baby steps with him. She was like "Oh My God, you're so Parelli!" and I was like, errr no, I just don't want to push him past his limit so he turns round and buggers off home with me at 100 mph and I fall off and kill myself !!! :rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
Seriously, the same exact thing happens to us all the time. We start horses and people want to know what methods. Our own.

But I love the freebies people expect. Especially from clients.

So I made a "price list":

Handling your unhandled horses for blacksmith or vet €50.

Feeding, rugging, and general check over per day. €10 euros per horse per day.

Doctoring after vet €25 per taking care of incident.

They sound ridiculous don't they? Well not ridiculous when I use services from the people that want me to use my expertise for free. I do not walk into the beauty salon get a day of beauty then walk out and say, well we're friends. Or tell farmer I'm not paying you for the straw you just bought or that I'm not paying for the fields you just did. But oddly enough when it concerns horses and you can do the things they can't it should be free.

Trust me. We used to help people but then it became stupid. And if you have horses make the time. If you don't know how to do something learn. These prices make them do a double take because most of it is pure laziness or the thought that what we do isn't important. Well you all can stuff it then.

Terri
 
I should clarify this is for people that had horses with us at one time and or friends of clients. Their horses were not with us at the time we were asked to do extras for free because you know, it's not really work or anything and we live on love and air.

Terri
 
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