Re: Spoilt horses?

Hana's ridiculously spoilt haha, she's my pride and joy and my baby so i like treating her, lookign after her to the best i can and to what she deserves, makes me happy :) However she's not like a spoilt brat sort of spoilt lmao! she does actually appreciate it, and yes i understand she is a horse lol!!! She has endless amounts of rugs and boots and buckets and headcollars and numnahs i do have ridiculously expensive tack but my saddle was the only one that fit her well as she has a difficult shaped back to fit and as we jump alot and she bucks it has to fit her perfectly, and it just so happened a bloody prestige would. Oops :) She's shod always but only on the front as she falls over on the concrete with backs on lol and she does feel tho cold so is being rugged and slippered up at night now. She has adlib hay always pretty much and i do use alot of supplements but i can see an improvement in hana's behavoir and condition. She's clipped all through the winter, but she is in heavy work and competes. She has loads of toys and licks i spent my brithday savings on rubber matting for her, she has all the newest rugs and i think last time i counted she had 19 just to herself haha, boots wise i think i have a fetish, and we must literally have about 30 pairs haha. She's always trimmed and groomed and bathed too and i give her massages and scratches every night and oil her feet :) I do this becuase i enjoy it and hana likes being pampered, but even if i dont for a few days it doesnt affect us or our relationship so i definitly see no harm in it, not for us anyway. :)

With the coming into eachothers space thing, tbh i think both of us kind of have no spatial awarness and neither really worry haha, like this morning she was charging round the menage fly bucking and rearing and really enjoying herself, i went in coz  an over reach boot flew off and she came flat out galloping to me and stopped literally at an inch from my side and started trotting behind me and playing with my hair. She never intimmidates me or tries to dominate me and i dont either, so we kind of have an understanding that niether of us scare each other and know we'll never hurt one another and lately ive proper realised i think we trust each other too much lmao, even with all her rearing and buckign and spooking. Although tbf i can see the problems with this as shes fine with experienced people looking after her but anyone that isnt she does just take the mickey lol :)

Re: Spoilt horses?

lmao, Spags defo gettin to the spoilt stage...although behaviour wise, i take very little nonsense off him just out of habbit from when i wanted him as a stallion =) he now has a fly sheet because he was so badly bitten he was looking like he had mumps, lol. gunna get him a light weight rug for winter purely because if i wanna drive him out i'd rather he be dry n not get rubbed by the harnes, lol. feed wise, while he's still growin he's on a stud balanccer, when he's finished growin he'll prob go on the lo cal balancer, just to give him the vits n mins, hehe. x

Re: Spoilt horses?

I wouldnt say Pip was very spoilt although she does have a rather good wardrobe of rugs which is continuously growing due to my fetish with them and im a sucker for a bargain!! she is rugged more than most of the horses she lives out with due to the simple fact that i feel sorry for her! im not one of those people who will put medium/heavy on just because its raining but i do like her to be rugged in even just a lightweight if we have continuous bad weather she also et mild rain scald so there is a reason. no harm comes of it as soon as the weather cheers up - it comes off again, and tbh she prefers to be rugged - sounds strange but she is always much happier when she has a rug on - even if its just a sheet whilst shes in the lorry! strange horse!!  she doesnt get hard feed because she doesnt need it but over the winter and when we have extremes of weather she does have a feed a day - 1) to keep condition up as when i got her she had pretty awful/non existent condition 2)her hooves do suffer a bit so she does need some supliments occasionaly 3) the night before the show she has some chaff and some barley rings to help her stay awake!! she doesnt have expensive tack because shes only 2 and doesnt do anything:/ although she does have a very nice in hand bridle.  she never goes with out and shes very siple so doesnt want for anything !- when she does come in she always has a salt lick and a big hay net waiting for her. hugs and kisses are on tap!i dont have a problem feeding her trats by hand as she is very good when i say thats enough although if she really wants a treat she will do a vague imitation of a bow! and when she puts that much effort into asking for a treat how can you say no!! i love to pamper her and make her look pretty shes always got a clean shaven head so she looks smart and her mane is always pulled although you wouldnt no it as where she spends all day with her head down it all points towards her ears in a mohican style! as long as the pampering doesnt go too far and both parties enjoy it - i cant see the problem:) i love pampering my pony because she means everything + more to me :D

picture 1 - october when i got her

picture 2 - new hair cut

picture 3 - Pip and mum June2010

Re: Spoilt horses?

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