Queenbee
Well-Known Member
Hi there all,
As some of you may know... I had a wee erm, 'holiday' due to another thread, and during that 'holiday' which was tres fabulous, the whole 'pasting-gate' ran on.
Many of you will breath a sigh of relief when I say this, but since Ben had his argument with an electric fence and four wodden posts that he broke
he has been a peach to handle. He may well have been physically fine, but I think he may well have had a bruise ego from that. Anyway, regardless, despite very firm handling *gasps* with a whip in hand, he has not felt the thwack of a whip on his rug at any time. I feel sure the RSPCA will be pleased to hear. Although, regardless of peoples opinions, if he misbehaves and does not behave upon voice command and a tug on the rope, then yes, I probably will give him a whack, maybe even two. I mean no offence to others or their ways, and it is not a route I have been down for years, but ben is ben, and I always aliken him to kevin and perry the grumpy greasy petulant teens.
I have peeked at the thread this evening, and as a result have decided to post this. I agree with wagtail, that my choice of terminology was perhaps wont to spark out rage and beating of drums, I did however credit that the majority of H&H would know me, and understand a bit of tongue in cheek humour: 'shock horror horse beater' and such, sadly not so much. Furthermore, yes, psyching myself up to give my horse a pasting... hmm, well, pickles couldn't stand a whip and I never rode either him or ebony in spurs or a whip, well unless competing on Ebs, and then it was never used. If you ever had a whip with Pix, it was stowed in your boot, redundant, so no use... see where I am going with this. Pickles used to rear up on a lungeline on sight of a lunge whip, so afraid and beated when I got him he was. So really, and knowing me from my posts on here, I assumed wrongly that people would understand that yes... I would have to 'psych' myself up to physically reprimand a horse, even if it was one or even two hits with a whip on a bleeding rug.
My entire life I have spent rescuing beaten, neglected horses emotionally and physically pushed to the edge. Ebony and Ben are the only two that never had that life before me. Please do not ever insult me by suggesting I could be so reprehensible and savage as beating a horse and turning it into something I used to have to painstakingly and lovingly fix!
And no, magic melon I did not truly want my horse to get hurt by his ordeal with the fencing, but I was slightly miffed and trying to express a sense of humour since he had just destroyed half of his permanent electric fencing. I shall not joke in the future.
Finally, Ben does not like sharing his paddock with other horses since he lost Ebony, this is a fact he becomes aggressive and there are not the right horses there to deal with this even if 'sharing paddocks' were an option, I actually believe that since he is very happy and content in his own paddock, if it were an option (which it isn't) to force him to share, because it is 'the natural way of things' would not be fair to him. He loves his stable and solitude and people more than anything, his dam and Ebs were his world, never any other horse, he has only ever tolerate one other a gelding that was way bigger and grumpier than him and he went for him after he lost Ebony. However, just because he loves people, this does not mean that they can't be firm with him Amymay. This is not sad for him, it is black and white. He was Emotionally put back in his gremlin cage for a few days, and he is praised at the end of a task for being good.
He is greeted with a 'Hello baby boy' as I round the corner and he whinneys a welcome, I don my hat, pick up my whip and give him a growly *i mean business* 'back up' before we leave the stable. when he has walked properly and respectfully, he has a pat, a scratch, a 'good boy' and is turned away. The other day he went out with a scowl and ears back tail swishing all the way and coiled like a spring, he was held firm, but not reprimanded because it was pouring dowl and the yard was flooded, and he despises and is wary of puddles' on the other hand if the day was sunny and dry and he tried that on with me, I would tell him to grow up.
I hope that goes a small way to clearing up my verbal sense of offensive humour when my horse had just caused a load of damage at the yard.
As some of you may know... I had a wee erm, 'holiday' due to another thread, and during that 'holiday' which was tres fabulous, the whole 'pasting-gate' ran on.
Many of you will breath a sigh of relief when I say this, but since Ben had his argument with an electric fence and four wodden posts that he broke
he has been a peach to handle. He may well have been physically fine, but I think he may well have had a bruise ego from that. Anyway, regardless, despite very firm handling *gasps* with a whip in hand, he has not felt the thwack of a whip on his rug at any time. I feel sure the RSPCA will be pleased to hear. Although, regardless of peoples opinions, if he misbehaves and does not behave upon voice command and a tug on the rope, then yes, I probably will give him a whack, maybe even two. I mean no offence to others or their ways, and it is not a route I have been down for years, but ben is ben, and I always aliken him to kevin and perry the grumpy greasy petulant teens.I have peeked at the thread this evening, and as a result have decided to post this. I agree with wagtail, that my choice of terminology was perhaps wont to spark out rage and beating of drums, I did however credit that the majority of H&H would know me, and understand a bit of tongue in cheek humour: 'shock horror horse beater' and such, sadly not so much. Furthermore, yes, psyching myself up to give my horse a pasting... hmm, well, pickles couldn't stand a whip and I never rode either him or ebony in spurs or a whip, well unless competing on Ebs, and then it was never used. If you ever had a whip with Pix, it was stowed in your boot, redundant, so no use... see where I am going with this. Pickles used to rear up on a lungeline on sight of a lunge whip, so afraid and beated when I got him he was. So really, and knowing me from my posts on here, I assumed wrongly that people would understand that yes... I would have to 'psych' myself up to physically reprimand a horse, even if it was one or even two hits with a whip on a bleeding rug.
My entire life I have spent rescuing beaten, neglected horses emotionally and physically pushed to the edge. Ebony and Ben are the only two that never had that life before me. Please do not ever insult me by suggesting I could be so reprehensible and savage as beating a horse and turning it into something I used to have to painstakingly and lovingly fix!
And no, magic melon I did not truly want my horse to get hurt by his ordeal with the fencing, but I was slightly miffed and trying to express a sense of humour since he had just destroyed half of his permanent electric fencing. I shall not joke in the future.
Finally, Ben does not like sharing his paddock with other horses since he lost Ebony, this is a fact he becomes aggressive and there are not the right horses there to deal with this even if 'sharing paddocks' were an option, I actually believe that since he is very happy and content in his own paddock, if it were an option (which it isn't) to force him to share, because it is 'the natural way of things' would not be fair to him. He loves his stable and solitude and people more than anything, his dam and Ebs were his world, never any other horse, he has only ever tolerate one other a gelding that was way bigger and grumpier than him and he went for him after he lost Ebony. However, just because he loves people, this does not mean that they can't be firm with him Amymay. This is not sad for him, it is black and white. He was Emotionally put back in his gremlin cage for a few days, and he is praised at the end of a task for being good.
He is greeted with a 'Hello baby boy' as I round the corner and he whinneys a welcome, I don my hat, pick up my whip and give him a growly *i mean business* 'back up' before we leave the stable. when he has walked properly and respectfully, he has a pat, a scratch, a 'good boy' and is turned away. The other day he went out with a scowl and ears back tail swishing all the way and coiled like a spring, he was held firm, but not reprimanded because it was pouring dowl and the yard was flooded, and he despises and is wary of puddles' on the other hand if the day was sunny and dry and he tried that on with me, I would tell him to grow up.
I hope that goes a small way to clearing up my verbal sense of offensive humour when my horse had just caused a load of damage at the yard.
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this thread will go exactly the same way as the last as you want everyone to agree with you and they won't