I think a lot of it depends on the horse. My gelding has a very sensitive nose,
and doesn't much appreciate the halter sliding around side to side. He takes to
the bit and bridle well. My mare refuses to be bitted. She hates it, but she's
o.k. with the halter.
**No, not having to pull harder does not always result in a gentler experience for the horse. It depends on the equipment being used. ** May I suggest that it...
I think a lot of it depends on the horse. My gelding has a very sensitive nose, and doesn't much appreciate the halter sliding around side to side. He takes...
... Your very correct and all that you want the bit to do is feel uncomfertable not make it pain full i don't use a bridle or a halter with my horse anymore...
Hi Susan, ... That makes it sound like bridle would be worse than a halter. A bridle is thinner and has a metal thing in their mouth, positioned in a sensitive...
Hi Susan, (even if I don't respond to everyone, I still appreciate your messages. Thank you.) ... It is just that she is an older horse. The vet did not say...
Brenda, using a bridle on an aggressive horse instead of having it be at liberty makes sense - you would have some control over the horse then, albeit it might...
Hi Susan, ... Well, sometimes I can see it coming.. that she gets a mad look on her face. I could cue her to move away. Of course you can cue a horse without a...
Hi wyocowboy23, ... No, because I have had her since before she was 2 years old. She has had this most of her life. She was less than 5 years old when the...
... Hi brenda your right most of it is from a bad trainer and know because of it she is acting out on it i think she has lost trust and confadence in...
Hi wyocowboy23, ... I think I have been giving the wrong impression. Inky does not run at me hardly ever. She also does not do the charging hardly ever. It is...
... Stop making excuses for the horse's bad and dangerous behavior. ... This horse sounds like it has your number. If it doesn't want to do something, then it...
... take a plastic bag put some dirt in it but just a little dirt to give the bag a little weight next time she come's at you throw it up in the air and get a...
... No offense, Brenda, but it kinda sounds here like you have inadvertently taught her that this is what she's supposed to do. The first time she charged,...
Hi SD, ... I have tried everything from ignoring her to punishing her. I was only 16 when I got her, and knew nothing about horses except what I read in books...
Brenda, you are a rarity: Someone who puts the horse first! How many people would have kept her all this time, just to make sure she was well-treated?...
Hi Brenda, ... This would not be something I would necessarily assume! Anyone in their right mind would certainly take pause when a horse is coming at them...
Hi Sharon, ... I am not assuming the trainer wasn't afraid.. that was my point. What I meant was.. the trainer went in to give Inky medicine and Inky charged...
Aggression can be a symptom of Cushing's disease. You said she can only see out of one eye. Have you had that eye checked? If she can't see you, you're...
Hi monkeymama57, ... Yes, her eye has been checked. A vet has never said that it causes her pain, but that doesn't mean it doesn't. Her eye looks white when...
Hi SD, ... I don't feel that it is from getting senile since I have had aggression problems with her since she was young. Her mind does not seem any different...
... I had a client, back in Rhode Island, who's horse was very aggressive with her. If he was on cross ties he would charge her with teeth bared. He would...
Hi Sharon, ... Inky also charged a trainer that was trained by John Lyons. I do not feel it is just me. (I do not know if she was actually nervous about it...
Hi Brenda, ... That was my only real point. :-) Even when the horse does have a Really Good Reason to be aggressive the way we behave can and does influence...
Hi Brenda, I second Sharon's idea of some photos or video of Inky. I keep trying to imagine you and her in my mind, ..but really, there are no facts in there....
Hi Sharon, ... Yes I agree that my behavior or other things wrong with what I am doing are a part of the cause. ... Yes one issue that is not a training issue...
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