Re: Question - Keeping on a Horse
- From: green_knight@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Catja Pafort)
- Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:28:10 +0000
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.
Has the horse a realistic chance of finding a good home?
Is it unsound? Does it need specialist feed/attention/medication?
If the answer to any of those is 'yes', then you might have to keep it
yourself, or put it up on loan on understanding that you will provide
for expensive procedures.
Is it physically capable of being worked regularly? Is it suitable for
an ambitious rider (jumping, dressage, endurance, whatever)?
If the answer is yes, then you have a good chance of finding someone to
take your horse on - *as long as you are dead honest about the problems
you have had*. Large numbers of people will look at a horse and say 'I
basically like it and think I can enjoy working with this horse and I
think I will be able to cope with <bad behaviour> better than the
current owner, *particularly* if the horse is a talented one.
If you tell them the horse is fine when it's obviously not, potential
buyers are, IME, much more likely to want to return it or pass it on
very quickly into hands you don't want a horse to go to. If you're
honest about why you've lost your courage, they can make an informed
decision.
IANAL, but that's my stance on difficult horses.
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?
If you've been _that_ discouraged, sell your horse to someone who can
have fun with it, and buy yourself a horse (or take lessons, or find a
share) where *you* can have fun.
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)
If there isn't a problem with the horse, why have you lost your courage?
Catja
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