BannerBrat
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[SIZE=12pt]Hello guys![/SIZE]
It's been a while since I've posted, & I've even changed my name, thanks to Marylou,
I used to be minidonkeyny with my Mom, but now I'm just me yay! lol.
Anyway lately I seem to be going backwards with the training of my gelding Banner. He hasn't been very responsive and seems to be in just a bad mood overall. He will sometimes throw tantrums over minor corrections, which we work through, but this all is really unlike him. He has always been a horse that keeps me thinking, but these tantrums are kind of mean, usually he's just being a goof when he throws his little tantrums, but lately they've been more violent. Also he seems to go from bratty & obnoxious to when I correct him he freaks out & looks & acts like I've corrected him unjustly. Which I'm pretty sure I'm not. So that has me puzzled unless he's more sensitive due to not feeling good. [he has had some loose poop, and seems a little less Bannerlike, haha. OH! Which I'm thinking is due to slightly different hay & the heat.]
This leads to the fact he really doesn't like the extreme heat, [who does? yuck!] which it is now gross out here. I was sick for about a week and didn't do anything with him, & now that I'm better it's nasty here, so I'm wondering if the heat is magnifying problems.
I'm considering going back to the very basics with him, as in leading, & 'you will stand there when I tell you to, I don't care how green the grass is' type of thing and basically do a whole review with him (over a week or so, however long it takes.) & then working up from there to where we currently are, longlining, and he has been hitched a few times & has done awesome, it's just too hot for that though. Up until this point we had been improving more & more.
I would like to know your thoughts though on what you would do, if you would go back to the very beginning & be a perfectionist on that his listens to what you ask of him, (which I usually am anyway, I don't let him push me around, he knows respect.) Or if you would just keep working him lightly when the weather permits.
Thank you guys for any imput.
If anything's not clear just ask.
Ash
It's been a while since I've posted, & I've even changed my name, thanks to Marylou,
Anyway lately I seem to be going backwards with the training of my gelding Banner. He hasn't been very responsive and seems to be in just a bad mood overall. He will sometimes throw tantrums over minor corrections, which we work through, but this all is really unlike him. He has always been a horse that keeps me thinking, but these tantrums are kind of mean, usually he's just being a goof when he throws his little tantrums, but lately they've been more violent. Also he seems to go from bratty & obnoxious to when I correct him he freaks out & looks & acts like I've corrected him unjustly. Which I'm pretty sure I'm not. So that has me puzzled unless he's more sensitive due to not feeling good. [he has had some loose poop, and seems a little less Bannerlike, haha. OH! Which I'm thinking is due to slightly different hay & the heat.]
This leads to the fact he really doesn't like the extreme heat, [who does? yuck!] which it is now gross out here. I was sick for about a week and didn't do anything with him, & now that I'm better it's nasty here, so I'm wondering if the heat is magnifying problems.
I'm considering going back to the very basics with him, as in leading, & 'you will stand there when I tell you to, I don't care how green the grass is' type of thing and basically do a whole review with him (over a week or so, however long it takes.) & then working up from there to where we currently are, longlining, and he has been hitched a few times & has done awesome, it's just too hot for that though. Up until this point we had been improving more & more.
I would like to know your thoughts though on what you would do, if you would go back to the very beginning & be a perfectionist on that his listens to what you ask of him, (which I usually am anyway, I don't let him push me around, he knows respect.) Or if you would just keep working him lightly when the weather permits.
Thank you guys for any imput.
If anything's not clear just ask.
Ash