Quote of the Day

Horses teach people, and people teach horses  IN THAT ORDER

So, I will elaborate on this a bit, so people who are new to horses either need someone who is going to come out and work with them every day and teach them how to do stuff with a good horse, or you need a dead broke pony. People who go out trying to buy the best looking, most ribbon winning, fastest barrel/ropeing/keyhole/pole horse for their first horse, are just being idiots and asking for trouble. You have to learn from the horse, or you have to learn from someone else working with the horse, you can't expect to just know how to train and ride horses, it takes quite a few years before you actually get to KNOW horses.

One of the first lessons I learned with horses, is they are bigger and stronger than me. Now people think you can hit a horse hard because it was misbehaving, they are so strong and big, it won't hurt if I hit them. I think this is true to an extent. Like when I talked about the 3 second kill, if thats whats in your hand use it. But if your horse is "missbehaving" or "being disrespectful" there is no reason to hit your horse. Horses can feel a little fly on them, and twitch that part of their body to get it off, do you really think they need to be slapped or whipped? Even then most of the time it is the owners fault, and they are being stupid.

So like I said it takes a few years to get used to horses, I was around horses for 6 years before I got my first horse of my own, which was a green broke 2 year old. I did fine for a while, and I tried to make a decision, but adults (people who think they are mature I personally think are bad with horses, I always try to think like a kid when I ride but I am a mature person with other things) I knew my horse had had a good day, she was ready to get back, and be groomed and massaged and fed, but a "mature" person who thought that you had to boss the horse told me otherwise, being only 7 after getting chewed out I listined and headed back out, my horse didn't want to go back out, she was very tired, we had been out riding back by the river for a long time. She didn't want to go out, and (yes people say oh they are disrespecting me, but I was nervous from being chewed out, and didn't want to go back out, she sensed that so she was nervous too, she was just barley 3 years old, so I don't really blame her. I was 6 and rode a green broke 2 year old, but then I had had those years of riding experience, not just pony rides at the fair, or being led around. I have been on a horse from before I was even born. I rode our horses around at my 1st birthday party with my parents walking beside me bareback. I remember riding up and down steep hills with my grandparents, I eventually was able to go out with my grandma sitting with me, and me doing most of the work myself. After that I was able to ride by myself, I had even cantered before I was 7 on my grandmas horse Candy. She fell one time doing that, so I didn't canter her anymore after that. Like I said it takes a lot of time, miles and miles and hours and hours in the saddle to get to know horses, and only after the horse teaches you about themselves, can you teach another horse.