Re: "Horses do not think"...

Merlin will behave very nicely for 12 year old daughter to ride.... but if the nine year old gets on then which ever rein she uses to turn him he will go the opposite way...... even if that means going up the wall of the school.

You should see the smug look on his face when she cries!!!
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I had a pony who would jump out in front of buses, always go under low branches, scrape me against fences and rear, buck and nap appalingley unless he was going on a new hack route when he would take the bit and trot like mad all the way around. I think he did all these things and a million other naughty acts because he had scared countless children into getting off him. However, if you were prepared for him and carried a stick then you could generally stop the worst of it - I loved riding him - probably because I was a show off and nobody else would
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If you did Natural Horsemanship, and particularly Parelli, Weezy, you'd find that your horses wouldn't hate you so much.
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Hmmmmmm you may have a point S, obviously my barbed wire whip, electric spurs and starvation to the point of collapse way of doing things is a little harsh do we think?

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As the Parellis so rightly say, just because you're a horse owner, doesn't mean that you're a horse lover.
Have you tried understanding his behaviour instead of cruelly punishing him? Maybe playing the games with him would develop your relationship?
Or selling him on Project horse as a last resort?
Only trying to help!
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indeed.....anyone want to borrow my DVD?
 
mine has learnt that if you put a beginner on him and he runs off round the school with them until they fall off, he gets taken out, thus not having to do any work, and getting to eat instead.... clever horsey!
 
I currently have a nice black and blue foot courtesy of a horse at the riding school squishing my foot against the fence post. He did the exact same thing to me the last time I rode him. He only does it at one point in the school - I'm sure it's becasue he knows that that is the most solid post there.
 
Sounds like Patches.

I'm sure it's just a game to her. If she's close to the trees, she has more chance of snatching a bite, especially if I have to do acrobatics to fit under the low slung branches.

I love cheekiness. It's totally different to any maliciousness some animals can possess. Cheeky ponies and horses are so full of character, you can't fail to be endeared to them.
 
Asti's mum was a bit of a nutter pony. We'd ride in the woods, and insted of riding along the proper tracks, big wide ones, she'd jump up the bank (several feet up...) and weave along a tiny track about 5" wide where humans or dogs must have walked... and where the branches were lower.

If I wanted to go slower than her, she'd head sideways to a ditch or drop and try to throw herself off it so I'd give in and let her gallop.

And I could sit on her bareback in the paddock in a halter and rope only, and fro me just sitting quiet, she'd canter off up to a jump, jump it, turn round and do it the other way - with me just sitting not steering in any way.

She was clever but very sharp with it. Asti only does nice but devious things, usually for food, she'd never try the ditch or gallop trick... thank god, don't think I could cope with that again! We just teach her tricks for food..
 
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