VoyForums
[ Show ]
Support VoyForums
[ Shrink ]
VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, [2], 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 12:34:28 01/15/08 Tue
Author: Denise
Subject: Walking in Hand Update

Thanks everyone for the advice and I do have someone to go to for advice who is a very good trainer. I also have my husband who is not as intimidated by my horse as much as I am. I will have to just have more confidence and not baby him so much. Just a note to all the readers. You know how they say a Friesian is very stoic and will not show you he is not feeling very well like another breed might? Well let me tell you that I believe it now. Last week we took Jasper for a walk in one of the fields outside his comfort zone after I had lunged him just lightly. It was already getting dark and my husband walked him further than he had ever tried to walk him in this field and not one problem. No bucking excitement or anything. We thought now this is the way he should act all the time. The next evening we took him for another walk in a different field (the one where all the monsters live) and I hadn't even lunged him at all and guess what he behaved like he had been in that field a million times. We even took him into wooded trails where he had never been before. My husband and I were very happy that he was being so good but I was suspicious. I told my husband maybe he is sick. So just because this was not his normal behavior I took his temp. and he had 104 temp. Needless to say I called my vet and we gave him Bute for the fever and put him on antibiotics for a week. He is doing fine now but I tell you there was no other sign that he was sick other than he was being such a good boy. It will be interesting to see if he remembers that nothing lives in those fields that will hurt him or if he will revert back to acting up again when he is feeling better. Just wanted to let everyone know that a change in their horses behavior may or may not mean that they are coming down with something even if everything else seems normal.

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]
[ Contact Forum Admin ]

Forum timezone: GMT-8
VF Version: 3.00b, ConfDB:
Before posting please read our privacy policy.
VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
Copyright © 1998-2019 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.