It has recently become known that a fair percentage of rearing, kicking, head tossing, tail swishing, and refusal to go forward may be because the horse is in pain....go check out some of the videos and info about that before you decide the horse is just misbehaving. 🐎💔
Well done! I’m enjoying your videos! In your experience is there a trigger that creates this type of behavior or is it just a personality thing with certain horses? I currently have a horse that will get this way on occasion.
I'm not a pro, but have been riding all my life and do tame horses for people in my village area (Gredos mountain range in Spain). We are in well known "horse and cattle country" . I say all this to set the scene. I can't know exactly why he is like this, but I have seen this before, of course. Any horse can just get frustrated, fed up, bored, sick and tired of the stuff, stressed, plus all the physical problems created from all this. Happens more in dressage than our "monta a la vaquera", simply cos dressage stems from military riding, drills and drills and more drills, while "vaquera" from the need to handle cattle in the countryside, so necessary work, a mission. It can happen to yours or anybody's really, so what can you do? In my opinion/experience, the solution is giving the horse "freedom" before this stage. Walk him cross country on the lead rope, like a dog, tack him up and combine doing very little with "usual work", make sure you vary the surroundings of the rides as much as you can, or obviously ride off and come back from different directions as a rule, give him exercises to do on your rides...out of the blue....back up, walk sideways, trot a circle, walk between trees or bushes, etc. Just make life as interesting as possible for him, as you like for yourself. There is nothing like having to do the same thing over and over again for years, with no possibility of ever choosing, think about it. When this sets in, I don't think the answer is to work him in the same way/place till he comes back. This is where I would have dismounted, taken the tack off and just worked him walking through exercises. Yielding hind end, sideways, backwards, bending, massages,.....things he probably stopped doing long ago. I would have left it there and the next day started doing what I was saying at first. To go straight up against this is to pick a fight, it might get really bad and not everyone has the skill and confidence this guy has to simply ride through it all. The moment he got on, he accepted the situation and just KNEW he was going to solve it with smooth work.......but not everyone has that in their DNA, nor can everyone get close to that level through practice. This is what I do to try not to let the stress get to my horses. Still, you must remember that , just like us, the surroundings can make all the difference. Is it the same to get up in the morning surrounded by beautiful mountains, wildlife and work to get done in natural surroundins, as to work there? It can't be, so we need to make it interesting and exciting for our horses. I hope you make some sense out of this. I don't have all the answers, I can only tell you what I believe and what works for me. Success to you, more than good luck.
But humans can feel flies and are ok with being patted in the back or shoulder, in a jovial friendly way ? I would think it would be creepy for someone to rub me in the back or shoulders! I rather a good pat in the back
Vigorous patting, more gentle at first, combined with jovial, loving and positive speech and attitude, can be a form of desensitization. I do this with my horses and it works!
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Quite calm equine conversation. Just wonderful to watch.
I’d check for kissing spine or another source of pain.
It has recently become known that a fair percentage of rearing, kicking, head tossing, tail swishing, and refusal to go forward may be because the horse is in pain....go check out some of the videos and info about that before you decide the horse is just misbehaving. 🐎💔
Nicely done!!! 👍
Horses learn to hate the ring, the drudgery of work. I see an unhappy horse.
Excellent !
Love your approach Kind understanding and always trying a path to partnership through understand
Good Job 🤗
Well done! I’m enjoying your videos! In your experience is there a trigger that creates this type of behavior or is it just a personality thing with certain horses? I currently have a horse that will get this way on occasion.
I'm not a pro, but have been riding all my life and do tame horses for people in my village area (Gredos mountain range in Spain). We are in well known "horse and cattle country" . I say all this to set the scene. I can't know exactly why he is like this, but I have seen this before, of course. Any horse can just get frustrated, fed up, bored, sick and tired of the stuff, stressed, plus all the physical problems created from all this. Happens more in dressage than our "monta a la vaquera", simply cos dressage stems from military riding, drills and drills and more drills, while "vaquera" from the need to handle cattle in the countryside, so necessary work, a mission. It can happen to yours or anybody's really, so what can you do? In my opinion/experience, the solution is giving the horse "freedom" before this stage. Walk him cross country on the lead rope, like a dog, tack him up and combine doing very little with "usual work", make sure you vary the surroundings of the rides as much as you can, or obviously ride off and come back from different directions as a rule, give him exercises to do on your rides...out of the blue....back up, walk sideways, trot a circle, walk between trees or bushes, etc. Just make life as interesting as possible for him, as you like for yourself. There is nothing like having to do the same thing over and over again for years, with no possibility of ever choosing, think about it. When this sets in, I don't think the answer is to work him in the same way/place till he comes back. This is where I would have dismounted, taken the tack off and just worked him walking through exercises. Yielding hind end, sideways, backwards, bending, massages,.....things he probably stopped doing long ago. I would have left it there and the next day started doing what I was saying at first. To go straight up against this is to pick a fight, it might get really bad and not everyone has the skill and confidence this guy has to simply ride through it all. The moment he got on, he accepted the situation and just KNEW he was going to solve it with smooth work.......but not everyone has that in their DNA, nor can everyone get close to that level through practice. This is what I do to try not to let the stress get to my horses. Still, you must remember that , just like us, the surroundings can make all the difference. Is it the same to get up in the morning surrounded by beautiful mountains, wildlife and work to get done in natural surroundins, as to work there? It can't be, so we need to make it interesting and exciting for our horses. I hope you make some sense out of this. I don't have all the answers, I can only tell you what I believe and what works for me. Success to you, more than good luck.
Is it his bit? Seems to fuss with the mouth and stretch his neck outward some…
Good riding but you may want to find this horse a job that he likes.
Not all rearing is separation anxiety.
Why do you get on like that P.S your amazing ❤
Quit smacking that poor horse!!! How about rubs, pets and scratches? Geeze if a fly makes them twitch, a smack???
But humans can feel flies and are ok with being patted in the back or shoulder, in a jovial friendly way ? I would think it would be creepy for someone to rub me in the back or shoulders! I rather a good pat in the back
Vigorous patting, more gentle at first, combined with jovial, loving and positive speech and attitude, can be a form of desensitization. I do this with my horses and it works!