Bernster
Well-Known Member
I do wonder what quirky is supposed to mean. I take that as sharp or difficult. No novices put me off too! I’m not a novice but I like safe horses and that makes me feel like it’s not safe!
No, she told me that everyone else, even her friends who had just been having a sit in her had been bolted with or thrown off. She looked genuinely surprised I didn't have any issuesI think, like most things that people say, it's very open to interpretation.
Did the owner of the horse really mean that of all the people who came out to try the horse, you were the only one who clicked with her? That's how I interpreted it.
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Oh yes that reminds me of one quirk that really puts me off - recently backed youngsters that don't stand still for you to get on. I don't care for the backing method that causes it.
I’d be worried about referring to the horse as “it.†That just gives me a funny vibe, T. B. H..
That’s a little frightening.... I don’t even think an equestrian wrote that!! I’m glad she ended up with you.One of the comments on my horse's advert was, "Does it move?" Very glad she ended up with me instead of that commenter!
What backing method causes them to not stand still at a mounting block?
"Not a novice ride" if they don't explain why the horse isn't a novice ride
I'm not a novice rider but I don't want something that's going to be bouncing all over with me!
Mine has been described as quirky along with obstinate. For her she's an opportunist and so has a mischievous streak.I do wonder what quirky is supposed to mean. I take that as sharp or difficult. No novices put me off too! I’m not a novice but I like safe horses and that makes me feel like it’s not safe!
if pressed I suppose I would describe Kira as quirky.I do wonder what quirky is supposed to mean. I take that as sharp or difficult. No novices put me off too! I’m not a novice but I like safe horses and that makes me feel like it’s not safe!
if pressed I suppose I would describe Kira as quirky.
She's a complicated mixture. She really really wants to do the right thing, but sometimes her brain won't let her. She's highly trainable and very clever about it, but some of her fight/flight responses are so hard wired they take over despite everything. There are things you have to do her way, and if you do the rewards are huge.
Often I think quirky can be code for plain rude or with undesirable behaviour... while that is true on some level with her, there is more going on behind the scenes and you have to play some things her way or else you may as well not bother.
I wouldn't put a novice on her, no, and I also wouldn't put someone bullheaded who thought there was one way to train or "discipline" horses because all of the progress I've made with her has been through thinking outside the box
I wouldn't turn down quirky if I thought the horse was worth it. But it does rather depend on the honesty of the seller and whether it's a euphemism for dangerous.
No, but lots of people only see horse training through the prism of their own experience or what has been handed down to them from other old-skool influences. Arguably someone looking for a straightforward novice ride to suit their lack of experience shouldn't have to think tooooo far beyond the norm, most of the time. that's the point of a horse suitable for a novice IMOTBH, I don't think any-one should take on a horse (buy/loan/foster) if they're not prepared to think outside the box. We have had to do that with all of ours, for various reasons, all different.
No price or location drives me nuts It is so time consuming and wasteful to have to enquire then be told by the seller they dont like it when price is the first question. Maybe everyone else has deep pockets or no top budget but not me
No, but lots of people only see horse training through the prism of their own experience or what has been handed down to them from other old-skool influences. Arguably someone looking for a straightforward novice ride to suit their lack of experience shouldn't have to think tooooo far beyond the norm, most of the time. that's the point of a horse suitable for a novice IMO
Yes. I must know all details that could restrict me from purchasing him/her. Location bugs me because I’m not paying to import a horse from ABCDEFG across the world unless that’s what I want to accomplish. And no price is a little annoying- I get that if the horse has a higher price tag/range that’s off-putting, but if you have the honest commitment to sell a horse it’s best to be honest.Hand reared or home bred and well handled. I might look but would be wary if it seemed a thug
No price or location drives me nuts It is so time consuming and wasteful to have to enquire then be told by the seller they dont like it when price is the first question. Maybe everyone else has deep pockets or no top budget but not me
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