Why you should stick at it!!!! :-))

[Supertrooper]

Sorry it's a happy post (not something you see much of on here!) but I just want to say how very very proud my best friend and I are of our shire x this lunchtime.

He's just had his first clip since we've owned him and he was as good as gold even though he was worried about it. He is incredibly sensitive for such a big lad but because he now trusts us, he listens rather than just panicking.

When we got him he barged, dragged, bit and planted his feet but he is not a nasty horse, he just needed direction in a firm but fair way and we're now there )

We both love him very much, he is such a character and a real pleasure to care for and ride!

 

[Chavhorse]

Sorry it's a happy post (not something you see much of on here!) but I just want to say how very very proud my best friend and I are of our shire x this lunchtime.

He's just had his first clip since we've owned him and he was as good as gold even though he was worried about it. He is incredibly sensitive for such a big lad but because he now trusts us, he listens rather than just panicking.

When we got him he barged, dragged, bit and planted his feet but he is not a nasty horse, he just needed direction in a firm but fair way and we're now there )

We both love him very much, he is such a character and a real pleasure to care for and ride!

Congratulations!

Its a great feeling isn't it, I remember 18 months ago when I was just relieved that my Bargy 4 year old wasn't dragging me around any more, my trainer then gave me a lesson with his QH and it was like leading a feather, I think at the time I said "yeah but no way will he ever be like this" I now have a wonderful cool, calm hulking WB x who you have no idea is on the end of the lead rope.

It takes a lot of work but it is so worth it when you start to get the changes in behaviour, well done.