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Possibility to get a horse, please help!!!!!?
I work at a lesson barn that is owned by the Forest Preserve, so it is not a boarding barn or a sale barn. We adopt Mustangs from the BLM and train them; when I started there, we had just gotten four to start training. Somehow I enden up training one of them; the cutest, little paint. We are perfect for each other and everyone knows that he is basically my horse.
My delemma is, I been looking into getting my own horse, but everytime I go see a horse, I get this feeling. The other horses are just not Scout (my Mustang). I want him so badly and most everyone at the barn knows that. The barn doesn't allow you to buy horses however, but they do allow them to be adopted out if they don't work out. This will be Scout's first year in lesson and if he doesn't fit into the program, I will get to adopt him. The thing is, a lot of people like him, so they are going to try as hard as they can to make him work even if it means not doing what is best for him. This really upsets me because, though I trained him very well, with the help of instructors of course, but he is still better suited as a one owner type of horse. He puts his trust in one person, but with new people he gets anxious and tense.
I really want to keep him; I am even willing to buy them a much better quality school horse, but they won't give him up unless he gets injured or throws off most of his riders. I just don't know what to do. I would do anything for this horse, but I can't seem to find a way to get him out of that situation right now.
Do you have any ideas?
Thank you MarieAlyse, I totally agree with you; I just really hope I end up with him. I know that they will for sure give him to me when he is retired; the thing with that is, he is 5...
it is Danada Equestrian Center in Wheaton, IL. It is really weird that they do this, but we work really hard to put the right training into these horses and I think that the students to benefit from it just because they learn how to stay on and calm a horse down in difficult situation. I don't know about your barn, but the other barn I work at and the other barns I have ridden at did not.
thanks Anna, but it is a little more difficult than that. He is owned by the Forest Preserve and they will not let him go unless he cannot be used for some reason or he cost them too much money. He has arthritis in his knees and stiffness in his neck (I want him to be my horse because I love him and if that means that i cannot do the disipline of my choice, I do not mind), so i might have a chance there.
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
That is a tough situation, I definitely know what it feels like to share that kind of bond with a horse. You seem to know what is in the horse's best interest, perhaps you should speak to whoever is in charge and explain to them that after the time you've spent with this animal, you've gotten to know and understand its behaviors and you feel that it is in the best interest of the horse to have a single rider. Then propose your offer to buy them a better quality school horse. They need to be reminded that the most important thing is what is in the best interest of the animal.
Other than that, there is really nothing you can do - they aren't breaking any laws and if it is against their policy for you to adopt him then that is just how it is.
The other thing you need to remember is that you've developed a bond with this horse because you've spent so much time with him. When you are looking at other horses you need to keep in mind that just because you haven't had the opportunity to make that bond yet, doesn't mean you won't with time.
I am curious about this barn, generally mustangs are not used as lesson horses...
- Anonymous5 years ago
No, your gelding does not have HYPP, no longer if each his mother and father are HYPP N/N. The HYPP gene is a recessive gene, this means that that the one approach a horse can expand the ailment is that if she or he inherits one reproduction of the gene from every mother or father at notion. Since your horse handiest has one reproduction of the gene on the so much, there is not any approach he will get ill. But do not take my phrase for it- have your vet pull a few blood and scan the pony the following time she or he is out for a talk over with. ANY vet can do the scan, and it may be performed at any lab that strategies assessments for animals like horses. UC Davis does no longer have the lock available on the market for this type of scan. And incidentally, for Lydia: HYPP CAN BE bred out of the Quarter Horse breed, and this has already been performed in a few situations. There are tons of traces this present day which can be HYPP unfastened. My possess mare comes from a kind of- she's flawlessly healthful and typical, and despite the fact that she is from the Poco Bueno line, she does no longer have HERDA, nor does she deliver the gene for it. HERDA is an extra genetic ailment which influences the epidermis and motives it to peel off in layers, exposing the tissues beneath. Found in most cases in horses that are descended from Poco Bueno and his offspring, HERDA is incurable. It has been removed via cautious outcrossing of Poco Bueno horses with different traces and breeds. The equal tale will finally be actual for HYPP- simply provide it a while.
- acreatureofhopeLv 61 decade ago
I know what you're talking about, I feel the same way about my old lease horse.
You need to talk to the people who own the horses. Tell them about how you feel and how you feel that he's meant for you. Maybe offer to let him be used a couple times a week.
