Fw: green horse turning yellow!

["steven" <trails@jps.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: steven <trails@jps.net>
To: <guest@endurance.net>; <:ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 1999 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: green horse turning yellow!


> Hi: you may have to take both of your shy critters some place other than
> home for a day or two to get over this problem. It sounds as if it maybe a
> learned i/e copycat trait learned from the older "dominant critter". good
> luck. steven
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <guest@endurance.net>
> To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 1999 9:14 AM
> Subject: RC: green horse turning yellow!
>
>
> > Michelle Kurtz kurtz@pa.net
> > Hi!  I am hoping for some advice.  I have a green horse who I have
> > started doing LSD with.  He is wonderful and listens (most of the time)
> > and I just love him... Only problem is, he won't pee away from home (we
> > trailer out at least once a week)!  It wasn't a big deal at first, and
> > I figured when he really had to go he'd go... BUT, two weeks ago we
> > trailered out for an all day trip and by mid afternoon he REALLY had to
> go.
> > He started kicking at himself and got really grumpy (lower lip starts a
> flappin').
> > We didn't get home for another three or four hours and he held it until
> > he was in his own pasture.  He dropped and was going before I even
> > had the gate closed (and there was a river by the time he was done).
> > Then I saw him go again about five minutes later.  He did the same thing
> > yesterday.
> >
> > Can he hurt himself by holding it that long?  Any advice on how to get
him
> > to go?  I ride with another person who's horse has NO problems going and
I
> had
> > hoped this would entice him to go (no luck)...
> >
> > The worst part is, my older gelding (who is now retired) hates to go in
> public
> > also and will put his head in the trailer to avoid anyone seeing him
when
> he
> > goes (okay, so he can't see anyone)!  So I thought I wouldn't have to
> worry
> > about this anymore when I retired the old boy!
> >
> > Any advice would be appreciated!
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >      Michelle and Scirachis ("but MOM, everyone is LOOKING!")
> >       and Fyre (" I'm telling you kid, don't do it!  They're all
> looking!")
> >
> >
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> >
>


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