OzzyBuffy
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Following on from my recent threads, current loan horse (an ex-racer tb), is going back to owner, I have said I have no quarms in holding onto him until she's found a suitable livery as the livery she is currently with has a 3 month waiting list!
However...she has decided she wants to put him straight back out on full loan. I can understand this, 7 week old baby and all, however the reason I decided it was better to send him back was because her indecisiveness (probably not even a word!) put me off. One minute she was okay with him being a horse as it were and doing everything, next minute she wanted him wrapped up. She said a Mum has contacted her about the full loan and said she wants himf or pony club.
Now, he will NEVER fit into pony club, he leads from other horses terribly and if they want to go, so will he. He always has to be up front, he kicks like a good'un, and he is a very typical tb in the way that he is very spooky and strong with a mind of his own. On top of this she has offered to pay for EVERYTHING for whoever takes him on full loan. I just feel he could end up somewhere silly?
I can't keep him really as I said but I did offer to just because I wanted to keep him safe, she said that she'd prefer to have him on full loan up her end so now any chance of me ''keeping him safe'' are gone. Shes a wonderful person and has always cared greatly for her horses but I don't think she realises what a handful he is. She had someone riding him for her for the best part of a year and she rarely rode. When she did it was in the school, where he behaves like a dream. And saying that even the sharer didn't often take him out.
I have taught him to load, before he wouldn't load even after sedation, he could rear and go over himself. He now loads within 15 minutes but only into the trailer I use (a friends), and with lunge lines. I know for a fact no mum and teen would manage to load him by themselves and would need someone extra with them all the time.
Okay now thats said....the new bit!
I went to view a new full loan pony yesterday, a coloured 15.2 broken 4 year old gelding, warmblood x.
He was everything I wanted and yes albeit a bit bolshy, seemed perfect.
I cannot pick any fault with HIM, but can with everything else!
Here is the bad parts.
Owner had him tied to a gate incorrectly for at least an hour, as she stated she was waiting for 20 minutes. She was sat on his back bareback when I arrived whilst he was tied onto the gate, which is a tiny little space where if hed spooked, she was going to be in serious danger. I say tied but actually she had just threaded a rope through the twine and left it dangling on the floor?!
And as I expected, shortly after I arrived he spooked (she was not on him at time). And where the rope wasn't tied correctly, he managed to get it stuck round his head, luckily he calmed down fairly quick and I grabbed it to retie it but she took it off me and once again threaded it through, without tieing it?!!
It was horrendously windy, rainy, with lots going on and he was so so well behaved just stood there not even flinching, I felt so sorry for him!
The next worst part is his feet. Shes had him a year and shes still not managed to get the farrier to see to his feet. I don't understand why these people want horses. This explains the sloping in his pasterns as just like my mare his feet have grown so long they force pressure onto the pasterns.
She also said she never bothered to insure him for vet fees, but insured him for public liability? I said Ill get him insured for vets fees anyway.
Hes also had no jabs and when I said to her what day would you like to come and view where hes staying, she replied with ''I wouldn't worry about that, just from talking to you I can see he'll be going somewhere nice''.....
Now I can see exactly how these poor poor horses end up in the places they do. I guess I am just so happy to have helped ''save'' another. I just pray in a years time she'll allow me to buy him.
Thank you to anyone whos read this far!
However...she has decided she wants to put him straight back out on full loan. I can understand this, 7 week old baby and all, however the reason I decided it was better to send him back was because her indecisiveness (probably not even a word!) put me off. One minute she was okay with him being a horse as it were and doing everything, next minute she wanted him wrapped up. She said a Mum has contacted her about the full loan and said she wants himf or pony club.
Now, he will NEVER fit into pony club, he leads from other horses terribly and if they want to go, so will he. He always has to be up front, he kicks like a good'un, and he is a very typical tb in the way that he is very spooky and strong with a mind of his own. On top of this she has offered to pay for EVERYTHING for whoever takes him on full loan. I just feel he could end up somewhere silly?
I can't keep him really as I said but I did offer to just because I wanted to keep him safe, she said that she'd prefer to have him on full loan up her end so now any chance of me ''keeping him safe'' are gone. Shes a wonderful person and has always cared greatly for her horses but I don't think she realises what a handful he is. She had someone riding him for her for the best part of a year and she rarely rode. When she did it was in the school, where he behaves like a dream. And saying that even the sharer didn't often take him out.
I have taught him to load, before he wouldn't load even after sedation, he could rear and go over himself. He now loads within 15 minutes but only into the trailer I use (a friends), and with lunge lines. I know for a fact no mum and teen would manage to load him by themselves and would need someone extra with them all the time.
Okay now thats said....the new bit!
I went to view a new full loan pony yesterday, a coloured 15.2 broken 4 year old gelding, warmblood x.
He was everything I wanted and yes albeit a bit bolshy, seemed perfect.
I cannot pick any fault with HIM, but can with everything else!
Here is the bad parts.
Owner had him tied to a gate incorrectly for at least an hour, as she stated she was waiting for 20 minutes. She was sat on his back bareback when I arrived whilst he was tied onto the gate, which is a tiny little space where if hed spooked, she was going to be in serious danger. I say tied but actually she had just threaded a rope through the twine and left it dangling on the floor?!
And as I expected, shortly after I arrived he spooked (she was not on him at time). And where the rope wasn't tied correctly, he managed to get it stuck round his head, luckily he calmed down fairly quick and I grabbed it to retie it but she took it off me and once again threaded it through, without tieing it?!!
It was horrendously windy, rainy, with lots going on and he was so so well behaved just stood there not even flinching, I felt so sorry for him!
The next worst part is his feet. Shes had him a year and shes still not managed to get the farrier to see to his feet. I don't understand why these people want horses. This explains the sloping in his pasterns as just like my mare his feet have grown so long they force pressure onto the pasterns.
She also said she never bothered to insure him for vet fees, but insured him for public liability? I said Ill get him insured for vets fees anyway.
Hes also had no jabs and when I said to her what day would you like to come and view where hes staying, she replied with ''I wouldn't worry about that, just from talking to you I can see he'll be going somewhere nice''.....
Now I can see exactly how these poor poor horses end up in the places they do. I guess I am just so happy to have helped ''save'' another. I just pray in a years time she'll allow me to buy him.
Thank you to anyone whos read this far!
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but you're still right to be sending him back to the owner
but as he stands quiet i'm sure with patience he'll get the hang of it, same with his feet, my 4 yr old still has 'moments' with the farrier and he's been having his feet done since he was 5 months old!