Heres the thing, never let your guard down around a horse, its a horse. Never think of or treat your horse like an over sized lap dog, if you want a dog, get a dog. Ive seen more people get badly hurt with what I call "precious the family pet syndrome" A horse far more so than a dog needs to be obedience trained to a high degree.
While horses may indeed be "vegetarians" and not likely to attack out of aggression, just due to their sheer size and the forces they can exert they are not safe to handle unless they have exceptional manners, and even then don't ever let your guard down and trust to handle them on the honor system alone.
I hope that didn't sound too preachy? Its late and I'm exhausted. Just trying to help.
Karen G www.princesscarriage.com
--- On Sun, 2/7/10, hol2haf3 <geristew@jeffnet.org> wrote:
From: hol2haf3 <geristew@jeffnet.org>
Subject: [haflingerfriends] Re: broken elbow - a valuable lesson
To: haflingerfriends@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, February 7, 2010, 8:14 PM
Were you wearing gloves, I hope? And a helmet is a good idea when working with new to you horses. A kick in the head is usually a death sentence. Geri again.
--- In haflingerfriends@ yahoogroups. com, "susanna_thorne" <susanna_thorne@ ...> wrote:
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> i'll be brief because typing left handed is new to me. i took my new to me haflinger mare for a walk in the woods. we were on a well packed snow mobile trail. it was the first day of moderate weather, maine has seen all winter.
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> i asked my husband to walk with me because i didn't know how the mare would act.
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> so with a rope halter and lead we walked. my mare was doing very well. we were both enjoying the sun shine and crisp temperatures. we were on th way home i gave her some slack with the lead, she picked up speed and swung her butt around and planted her hoof smack on my right elbow. it's broken!
>
> the tragedy is that i'm 8 weeks away from graduating from nursing school. we've been working on ground manners like not pushing, crowding but obviously we were not ready to be out of the paddock.
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> and more obvious is that my mare does not recognize me as the leader.
> so, it's back to establishing who's boss in a firm, consistent manner. i did some research and this mare has a well established history of being pushy. any thoughts on how to correct the butt swing and how to set the tone that crowding, pushing and brat behavoir is not tolerated. gots to go i'm studying for a cardiac exam
>
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