#horses - #Not sure about you, but correcting a horses' behavior when they're rude is not considered "mean"

Not sure about you, but correcting a horses' behavior when they're rude is not considered "mean"

Let me start out by saying this is a rescue, not a normal boarding facility or a riding barn. I get it, we get people who don't have much horse experience. I started out that way. This woman was leading a horse out and he tried to eat the hay. He can't chew the hay because he barely has teeth, but he literally just pulled away, hard, to get to it. I pushed his head (not hard) so he was facing forward again. The woman snaps at me and says "BE GENTLE." Me pushing a horse's head away from the hay (that he can't chew anyway) is considered "mean"? Then she was telling me to be careful around this one horse. "I heard she's mean. Be careful. But she hasn't done it to me yet." Ok, then what was that about her pushing you around to eat the grass?

Submitted June 08, 2019 at 09:05PM by mjk996
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