Posted by Patrick on October 17, 2009, 4:22 pm
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This was new one. Our bungling baby Earl is in pasture with our three mares, and Arab mare, and two Arab geldings. The pasture gets along fine; Earl gets kicked a time or two weekly from the mares if he gets too aggressive during feeding. The pasture is on the ride way up to open space land. So, today, a woman rider with a dirt slow mare complained that Earl "charged" at her mare three times when she was riding through the pasture to get to the gate. Then, she had a hard time opening the gate without Earl wanting to follow. DUH. Earl is a curious baby and wanted to make friends, as usual, with any new horse or dog. Earl is the lowest horse in the pasture and even the 28 year old gelding has driven him off the hay piles. I was less than sympathetic. What the blank do you want me to do? Change 500,000 years of instinctual behavior? I l leave that to Barry. If you are that ignorant, no call it stupid, about herd behavior especially when there is no grass, don't ride in the pasture. How these people have horses and expect them to behave like well mannered children is beyond me. Take an umbrella and open it in his face when he come behind you. Earl is so happy he will even try to play with the ground squirrels and any dog. Sure, he "charged" your horse and then followed up to the gate. Babies want to play; DUH. You just have to hope they do not breed.

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