Re: Question - Keeping on a Horse

Babypink wrote:
If you had a horse for a couple of years, and gradually lost confidence and
ended up not riding it, the horse was still relatively young, would you keep
it. Even after spending time taking up Parelli then not using it (think it
was an excuse for not riding) then basically finding a field and dumping
said horse in it and only visitng it to throw hay over the fence? After all
that would you keep it for the sake of it or would you be practical about it
and think that its best place is with someone else who can do something with
it (not that there is a problem with the horse at all)





I keep my youngster with people who are just doing exactly this, just
not including the Parelli bit!


If I had lost my nerve with my horse I would do the following:



Either, I would probably get someone I trust and had the same mentality
(just more bottle than me) to ride my horse and pay half as a sharer, I
would move the horse back to a yard setting so that there was more going
on for the horse and a little bit of positive pressure for me to
interact with him. Just initially do what I felt comfortable with,
helping his sharer with turnout and mucking out etc. to get my hand back
in .

That might just be the support I needed to get back on and do things. It
can sap your confidence if you have ridden your horse and he has been
silly, Parelli would be an option to carry on with especially with a
like minded sharer, but in my opinion some peeps DO in fact start doing
NH to get around riding horses that they have 'lost the connection with'
riding wise.

Nothing wrong in that, just you can convince yourself that you are so
much safer on the ground and not re-initialize the ridden work with your
ned. If the horse was young, and I had no interaction with it other than
to feed it then I would sell him on to someone who could give him a more
suitable home.

For example, I might do is sell the horse if I really wasn't keen on
riding that particular horse. Then, I would get myself some lessons to
build up my trust in horses again for a while and then eventually get a
horse that I clicked with.

That's just me though,

Nik & The Boys xxx

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