ridecamp@endurance.net: More details on Free Horse

More details on Free Horse

Trishmare (Trishmare@aol.com)
Wed, 24 Dec 1997 10:52:47 EST

In a message dated 97-12-23 15:16:35 EST, you write:

<< I think Trish is going far beyond the call of duty to have even suffered
such a dangerous horse at her place, let alone try to find a new owner
for her. It's a hard job and not a pleasant one and the odds are
against finding someone who really does know how to get past this kind
of behavior. Trish deserves applause and support for even trying, not
assumptions that she doesn't know a dangerous horse when she sees one.

Trish, best of luck to you, you have an uphill battle. I hope
everything works out for the filly. >>

Thanks Sue, I needed that. You would not believe some of the posts I've
gotten which went along the lines of "what are you doing to this horse which
has made her so mean?" That is insulting. I love horses, and would never
abuse one. I don't hate this filly--I just value human life more! And though
I'm no professional trainer, and never claimed I was, I do know a dangerous
horse when I see one.
I feel sorry for the filly's owner. Leslie truly loves this horse,
doesn't want anything bad to happen to her--and is scared to death of her at
the same time! And I don't blame her! I am now scared of this filly. In the
barn the other night when she suddenly attacked me for a moment I truly
thought I was dead meat. I was swatting her in the face with the halter
trying to get her to back off, and she just kept coming, rearing, striking and
trying to bite me, ears pinned FLAT back. As I said, all I'd tried to do was
put the halter on to put her in her stall to be fed. She'd decided to teach
me a lesson in dominance, and if it were not for the fact that my good old
gelding Tash was also loose in the barn, and he is the dominant horse on the
farm, and I bumped into him as I was stumbling backwards trying to save
myself, and he swung on the filly himself when she invaded his "space" (the
romantic side of me wants to believe he was protecting me!<g>) I really don't
know what would have happened.
But it won't happen again--not to me. That is for sure. I feed "angel"
from the other side of her paddock fence now!

Trish & "pretty David" (who is scared of filly too!)

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