I have worked at a scout camp for three summers, and every time I worked with the horses. Over those three summers, I have learned a lot about horses, their behaviors, and their reactions to various riders. To sum up what I have learned, when you show your horse that you care for it, they will pay you back several times over.
My first excperience with this was late in my first summer. I was assigned a horse named Stumpy. Stumpy had been in an accident that left his tail short and seeded in him a mistrust in humans. When I first started riding him, I would attemtp to force him to obey me. It did not work very well, as Stumpy would fight me with every turn I made, and disliked being forced to speed up or slow down. He also was easily spooked, which made for a jumpy and uncomfortable ride. When I learned of his accident, I started anew with a different approach. I took extra time out …show more content…
In particular there was a thick, muscular horse named Uncle that I was given my second year after he bucked a coworker of mine off. He never tried to buck me off, but he and I never had a bond like I had had with Stumpy.
It is also possible to treat a horse badly, and recieve negative results back. My first year, before I was assigned Stumpy, I was riding a horse named Scadoodle. She was an amazing horse to ride at first, but over the few weeks that I rode her, she continually got worse and harder to handle. At the time, I was unsure why she was getting so bad, but I later learned that I was riding Scadoodle wrong, so I was continually giving her reasons to hate me.
You get back from your horse what you put into it. If you treat your horse like a tool or a piece of machinery, you should probably prepare to get bucked off. All of my experience in this is why I believe that horses ae a cowboy’s best friend, but only if you treat them
My first excperience with this was late in my first summer. I was assigned a horse named Stumpy. Stumpy had been in an accident that left his tail short and seeded in him a mistrust in humans. When I first started riding him, I would attemtp to force him to obey me. It did not work very well, as Stumpy would fight me with every turn I made, and disliked being forced to speed up or slow down. He also was easily spooked, which made for a jumpy and uncomfortable ride. When I learned of his accident, I started anew with a different approach. I took extra time out …show more content…
In particular there was a thick, muscular horse named Uncle that I was given my second year after he bucked a coworker of mine off. He never tried to buck me off, but he and I never had a bond like I had had with Stumpy.
It is also possible to treat a horse badly, and recieve negative results back. My first year, before I was assigned Stumpy, I was riding a horse named Scadoodle. She was an amazing horse to ride at first, but over the few weeks that I rode her, she continually got worse and harder to handle. At the time, I was unsure why she was getting so bad, but I later learned that I was riding Scadoodle wrong, so I was continually giving her reasons to hate me.
You get back from your horse what you put into it. If you treat your horse like a tool or a piece of machinery, you should probably prepare to get bucked off. All of my experience in this is why I believe that horses ae a cowboy’s best friend, but only if you treat them