kit279
Well-Known Member
I'm posting for a bit of advice - really upset about it actually. I went to visit an old friend's horse today - I learned to ride (properly) on him and he was always a quirky little thing, odd and stubborn, but really good tempered and had a great sense of humour. The lady who owns him allows people to come ride him and learn to ride on him because he's safe and bombproof. The problem is he's got really sour over the years and has started to be really lazy and not go forward, althugh he was at one stage a lovely little dressage horse and very talented.
He was in the school and the girl riding him was wearing spurs but couldn't ride very well (she had her knees really bent and her heels really high up trying to get him to trot) and she was just whipping the sh*t out of him. Whip whip whip, accompanied with ineffectual kicks. She really thrashed him. The thing that guts me is that the girl's mum was just sitting in the corner of the school like there was nothing wrong! I didn't say anything (didn't know them) but I really want to tell the lady who owns him. Thing is, she knows that he takes a bit of a hard time from all these beginners and I think she'd like to loan him but I just wonder if she knows just how much they kick him about.
Just wondering if I should tell her, don't really want to 'snitch' on other people and we all have to learn sometime but I just don't see that beating the horse helps. Poor little thing is so good about it as well, he doesn't even buck when beaten, he just stands still and looks upset... What should I do?
He was in the school and the girl riding him was wearing spurs but couldn't ride very well (she had her knees really bent and her heels really high up trying to get him to trot) and she was just whipping the sh*t out of him. Whip whip whip, accompanied with ineffectual kicks. She really thrashed him. The thing that guts me is that the girl's mum was just sitting in the corner of the school like there was nothing wrong! I didn't say anything (didn't know them) but I really want to tell the lady who owns him. Thing is, she knows that he takes a bit of a hard time from all these beginners and I think she'd like to loan him but I just wonder if she knows just how much they kick him about.
Just wondering if I should tell her, don't really want to 'snitch' on other people and we all have to learn sometime but I just don't see that beating the horse helps. Poor little thing is so good about it as well, he doesn't even buck when beaten, he just stands still and looks upset... What should I do?