Kim P
Well-Known Member
Just wondering about my horse. I have had him 10 months. He is so skittish. I thought it would go away but it hasn't. When you put a lead rope on him he acts like he has had a lot of training. He minds so well. I have to walk up to him real slow, he will usually start moving away and I tell him to stop and move in real slow. He is so jumpy if I hit or bang something by him. He stands watching me from a distance. I always groom him last bc he knows it is his turn bc he watched me with the others. He is not mean at all. I have had him gelded. He is in his twenties. When I pet him and hold him he is so nervous at first. Do you think that he was beat or something before I got him or are some horses just naturally untrusting. He is the best one when it comes to manners, as long as you have a lead on him. You can lift his feet, brush him, whatever. I have had to take him to the vet several times to correct an abscess that ruptured from a tooth. He came here like that. Don't know how long it had been that way. I had to flush the hole and put antibiotics in for quite a while even after we got the tooth out. It has finally healed. Mine are just pets. We don't drive or show or any of that. Why do you think he acts this way?