Faster horses
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I've pretty much stayed out of what to do with this horse, because I think he really has issues that can't be solved unless a knowledgeable 'problem solver' is with the horse. It is easy to make matters worse.
It seems simple, when in reality horses like this one are complicated and the solution is or can be just as complicated.
In my first reply on this thread, I mentioned horses that are cinchy are 'claustrophobic' and they will usually pull back as well. Now Chuckie tells us this horse does pull back. And he broke the snap the last time he pulled back. This is not a good thing. Much more of that happening and he will get really bad about pulling back. When horses pull back, the axis, up by their poll, gets out of whack and a chiropractor is needed to put it back in again. I am not a believer of horse chiropractors except for certain situations and this is one of those situations.
Pat Parelli deals with horses that pull back in an entirely different manner than has been talked about here. There are many ways to 'skin a cat' and I've been around the 'tie the horses down, cover them with a tarp', etc. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. I am in no ways minimizing what has been told to Chuckie here. It is just that when no one here has actually been in the presence of the horse reacting like he does, (except Chuckie) something important could be missed in the telling of the problem. And she could miss something in telling of the solution; such as not having the horse on level ground to do this. There are so many variables that you can't cover them all unless you are right there at the time.
I know there are many skeptics out there about Pat Parelli, but I have observed him at clinics (I never took a clinic myself, only observed) and I saw him help horses that were fearful of being tied, be comfortable being tied up. Pat says how LET THE HORSE UP, is very, very important. Probably more important than how you laid him down.
And Chuckie, if the horse is struggling to get up, just step on the saddle horn (on the backside of the horse; dont' do that standing anywhere except behind his back). He cannot rise when you do that. He can try, but he generally cannot get up.
Good luck to you. I hope this method works. But I agree with kola, he could be really screwed up by now. I hope not...but I think you need some professional help with him and a professional whose 'heart is right'.
He doesn't need a fight, that obviously is what has happened to him in the past to have caused the situation in the first place.
FWIW and good luck.
It seems simple, when in reality horses like this one are complicated and the solution is or can be just as complicated.
In my first reply on this thread, I mentioned horses that are cinchy are 'claustrophobic' and they will usually pull back as well. Now Chuckie tells us this horse does pull back. And he broke the snap the last time he pulled back. This is not a good thing. Much more of that happening and he will get really bad about pulling back. When horses pull back, the axis, up by their poll, gets out of whack and a chiropractor is needed to put it back in again. I am not a believer of horse chiropractors except for certain situations and this is one of those situations.
Pat Parelli deals with horses that pull back in an entirely different manner than has been talked about here. There are many ways to 'skin a cat' and I've been around the 'tie the horses down, cover them with a tarp', etc. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. I am in no ways minimizing what has been told to Chuckie here. It is just that when no one here has actually been in the presence of the horse reacting like he does, (except Chuckie) something important could be missed in the telling of the problem. And she could miss something in telling of the solution; such as not having the horse on level ground to do this. There are so many variables that you can't cover them all unless you are right there at the time.
I know there are many skeptics out there about Pat Parelli, but I have observed him at clinics (I never took a clinic myself, only observed) and I saw him help horses that were fearful of being tied, be comfortable being tied up. Pat says how LET THE HORSE UP, is very, very important. Probably more important than how you laid him down.
And Chuckie, if the horse is struggling to get up, just step on the saddle horn (on the backside of the horse; dont' do that standing anywhere except behind his back). He cannot rise when you do that. He can try, but he generally cannot get up.
Good luck to you. I hope this method works. But I agree with kola, he could be really screwed up by now. I hope not...but I think you need some professional help with him and a professional whose 'heart is right'.
He doesn't need a fight, that obviously is what has happened to him in the past to have caused the situation in the first place.
FWIW and good luck.
