Welsummer, well said. I don't know much about horses except the basics and the caring of them...But that said I know from people I've been around, places I've worked summer jobs as a teenager, and a friend who trains and fosters abused horses, the last thing you do with a young horse training is HOLLER at them, scream, kick, whip, or ANY show of anger/aggression. The hopping your describing sounds like an unsettled horse who is showing his aggrevation, not 'trying to do what you want him to do', etc... Hoping like that and then you getting mad and tensing on him (and if your fustrated enough to scream you ARE tensing some part if not your whole body, psychology minor here ) and that tension feeds into the horse and he's going to react to it, and tense up and/or react in another way...If he tenses mid hop and comes down, he could easily damage his ankle or knees, and just the fact he's hopping like that tells me being in psychology (studying some animal psychology for fun) and knowing a general basis on horses - that he is confused and frustrated - and thus why its taking him so long to learn what you want him to learn. You make him confused and frustrated - and instead of being aggressive he shows that frustration by doing the hopping and what not.
He doesn't sound like a happy horse at all - go on a HORSE FORUM and tell them your story - see what they say if you don't trust a CHICKEN FORUM
- p.s. have a good day, and I hope the horse pulls through training fine.
He doesn't sound like a happy horse at all - go on a HORSE FORUM and tell them your story - see what they say if you don't trust a CHICKEN FORUM