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[RC] Reprimanding somebody else's horse - k s swigart

Katrina said:


But, yes, you are right about the reprimand. The
owner should have smacked the holy c**p out
of that mare...and if she didn't, then the OP should
have.


Under no circumstances can I think of any time at an endurance ride
wehre it would be appropriate for anybody to "smack the hole c**P out
of" somebody else's horse.

Smacking the holy crap out of a horse is not always the most effective
way of teaching a horse not to bite.  Doing so to a horse that you don't
even know is taking your life in your hands...and possibly a lot of
other people's too.

You already have evidence that this is an agressive horse that is
willing to lunge and use its teeth at, apparently, the slightest
provocation and apprarently rather indescrimininatly.  Smacking it when
it bites you is likely to generate further aggression from the horse.

And trust me on this one, if the horse decides to actually attack you
rather than just take a chunk out of you.  It will probably be YOU that
ends up dead.  The person isn't born who it a match for a truely angry
horse.

Just last week I heard (from my vet) the story of a guy that was going
to "teach that horse" not to be aggressive...with a baseball bat.  It
wasn't the horse that ended up in the hospital.

Do NOT, under any circumstances, EVER, EVER, EVER attempt to correct the
behaviour of a strange horse that belongs to some else with aggression.
And especially not the aggressive behaviour of a strange horse.

It would be wrong to assume that all horses respond in the same way to
being attacked by strangers, or are willing to back off in the face of
such an attack.

kat
Orange County, Calif.



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