I am training one of my minis to drive and I'm questioning if I should. She is sweet, an older mare and has a cute trot but she is spooky and high strung by nature. She spooks at rain on her shelter roof, the fence clicking, a feedbag. He response is to spook first. She's smart, sensitive and has a lot of energy. Why walk when you can trot?
I can work with her just fine- she leads, is good with the farrier and loves kids and we enjoy her a lot.
Is it worth putting the work into training her? I have her taking the bit and ground driving. She is good in the round pen- knows voice commands but needs a lot of time yet. She stands for harnessing now, though she bucked everything off at first.
She can go off in fear and spook and run at so many things...it is her personality. My vet called her a drama queen. I have two other horses and I can set a feed bag on their heads and they don't care. But she spooks and runs at the feedbag, even after we did a lot of desensitizing to plastic bags and the feedbag in fall.
Do I keep her as a pet (I will keep her) or train her and hope that she can calm down? She is 16 and kind of set in her ways.
I can work with her just fine- she leads, is good with the farrier and loves kids and we enjoy her a lot.
Is it worth putting the work into training her? I have her taking the bit and ground driving. She is good in the round pen- knows voice commands but needs a lot of time yet. She stands for harnessing now, though she bucked everything off at first.
She can go off in fear and spook and run at so many things...it is her personality. My vet called her a drama queen. I have two other horses and I can set a feed bag on their heads and they don't care. But she spooks and runs at the feedbag, even after we did a lot of desensitizing to plastic bags and the feedbag in fall.
Do I keep her as a pet (I will keep her) or train her and hope that she can calm down? She is 16 and kind of set in her ways.