Carly Rae
Well-Known Member
Hi,
A while ago I posted about my 2yo Colt Toby, and his attitude and disobedience. I have had so many helpful comments that I really appreciate. Today Toby was in one of his moods, didn't want to cooperate, so I did one of the suggestions- Post Tying.
I tried to do easy stuff with him this morning, just had him tied to a post, I touched him all over, lifted his feet, brushed him and he was... Horrible. He swung around, reared up, kicked his back legs when I had a hold of them. So I tied him to a post for about 30 minutes, he was still pawing at the ground. So I have taken him into the house yard tied to a tree away from the others, I will be working on the float in that area so I can keep an eye out on him.
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He has been tied to the tree for about 5-10 minutes now and I'm not exaggerating here as soon as I went to tie him to that tree he was rearing up making it so hard for me to tie him.
So a few questions:
-How long should I tie him for?
-Should I repeat this every day? If so what if he is not misbehaving, do I still tie?
-What if he doesn't stop at all and has been tied all day? Let him go, keep him tied?
I ended up getting photos as I had my camera with me at the time. These are more so I can look back to see any improvement. I state this as "Day one" I have never had this much problem with a horse in my life. He is nearly worse than when I was working with the 4 un handled giveaways....
Please let me know if I should do anything else or if i'm doing something wrong. Also I have just altered the knot so its not dangling so he cant get his legs caught. And he has a little more lead now, not much though.
A while ago I posted about my 2yo Colt Toby, and his attitude and disobedience. I have had so many helpful comments that I really appreciate. Today Toby was in one of his moods, didn't want to cooperate, so I did one of the suggestions- Post Tying.
I tried to do easy stuff with him this morning, just had him tied to a post, I touched him all over, lifted his feet, brushed him and he was... Horrible. He swung around, reared up, kicked his back legs when I had a hold of them. So I tied him to a post for about 30 minutes, he was still pawing at the ground. So I have taken him into the house yard tied to a tree away from the others, I will be working on the float in that area so I can keep an eye out on him.
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He has been tied to the tree for about 5-10 minutes now and I'm not exaggerating here as soon as I went to tie him to that tree he was rearing up making it so hard for me to tie him.
So a few questions:
-How long should I tie him for?
-Should I repeat this every day? If so what if he is not misbehaving, do I still tie?
-What if he doesn't stop at all and has been tied all day? Let him go, keep him tied?
I ended up getting photos as I had my camera with me at the time. These are more so I can look back to see any improvement. I state this as "Day one" I have never had this much problem with a horse in my life. He is nearly worse than when I was working with the 4 un handled giveaways....
Please let me know if I should do anything else or if i'm doing something wrong. Also I have just altered the knot so its not dangling so he cant get his legs caught. And he has a little more lead now, not much though.