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Re: [RC] Tailgaiting a kicker - Lysane Cree

Thanks everyone for the posts and the ideas. I guess it should have been obvious  to me since I have gotten after her for other things as she was growing up. The first time she backed up to try to kick the other horse, it surprised me I guess and I am still dealing with a certain amount of fear from a riding accident. I am not scared, until she gets overly excited and then my heart starts to race and I get pretty scared. On that day, she was being particularly disagreeable and hyped up and I was starting to panic a bit. All of your posts have given me confidence to go and attack the problem :)   I always try to fix a problem when it arises because I want a well mannered horse, especially since she has a strong personality, she needs discipline to keep her in line. 
Some of you mentioned punishing her as soon as she pins her ears - This totally makes sense...why wait for the actual kick, she already has the intention when she pins her ears or makes an ugly face!
Of course, now my horse hurt herself last night, needed stitches on a knee and must be in a stall with icing and limited hand walking for 10 days. Right at the Christmas holidays too, when I could have worked on her kicking problem a little each day. I am so bummed. She is definitely an accident prone "kid" because we go around and check the fields and no other horse gets hurt. That mare of mine!

Lysane
From: "Jonni" <jonnij@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: [RC]   Tailgating a kicker

You need to punish her before she kicks. In my book, the thought is as 
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bad as the action. If she pins her ears, get after her. And one swat on 
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the butt for starting to back towards another to kick is not enough. 
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would have got religion right then and there. That does not mean 
beating
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the crap out of her. Swat her forward, then put her into some kind of =
work immediately. Circles, forward, what ever so she know that was NOT 
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acceptable behavior.  If she is aggressive towards other horses on the 
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trail, and is getting away with it, then you have not establishing =
yourself as being in charge.

Don't get you, her, or someone else or their horse kicked or 
hurt....... =
nip it in the bud now..

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