Horse Talk

[ChickenLover200]

Excuse the spelling errors. Working with a slow computer here. *sigh*

 

[chicknmania]

OK, I'm in love with this horse. Just curious if anyone thinks 9500 is a fair price for a ten year old 15.3hh Quarter/ draft cross gelding who can: Do arena work, (WTC), do any trail class or obstacle course you can throw at him; jump at least 2.0, do training level 1 dressage, leg yield, load himself into a trailer, do beginner lessons, trail ride, & pull. WE want him for a lesson horse and also for a mounted patrol horse. Should I try to talk the owner down on the price??

 

[ShrekDawg]

oh y gosh. gorgous horses!

Right!? And they look so happy haha

 

[ShrekDawg]

Seems a little high to me unless it was like a show horse BUT he can do a lot of stuff and might be perfect for your needs

 

[Kusanar]

OK, I'm in love with this horse. Just curious if anyone thinks 9500 is a fair price for a ten year old 15.3hh Quarter/ draft cross gelding who can: Do arena work, (WTC), do any trail class or obstacle course you can throw at him; jump at least 2.0, do training level 1 dressage, leg yield, load himself into a trailer, do beginner lessons, trail ride, & pull. WE want him for a lesson horse and also for a mounted patrol horse. Should I try to talk the owner down on the price??

Sounds reasonable to me. He sounds pretty solid. Just make sure you test ride him and make sure he's pretty bombproof.

 

[chicknmania]

yes, we will. I thought it was a little high but he does seem perfect, there's tons of videos of him, and of course, we'll ride him first. And hopefully our trainer will go with us. Thanks

 

[ShrekDawg]

yes, we will. I thought it was a little high but he does seem perfect, there's tons of videos of him, and of course, we'll ride him first. And hopefully our trainer will go with us. Thanks

Good luck with him! He does seem like a great horse

And maybe you could talk them down a little on the price, even if it's only by a little bit, but then again he does seem worth it

 

[Kusanar]

yes, we will. I thought it was a little high but he does seem perfect, there's tons of videos of him, and of course, we'll ride him first. And hopefully our trainer will go with us. Thanks

Have you looked at the mounted patrol requirements yet? I know there are certain things they need to know and be ok with dealing with. If you have access to small children or dogs that aren't used to horses, it would be good to take those with you. Small kids are scary things and you can usually get them to scream bloody murder and make unexpected and sudden movements. Dogs that aren't used to horses will usually bark and sometimes even growl at them which will give you a good idea as to how the horse will react. Kids and dogs are also something he would see daily in the police force.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Have you looked at the mounted patrol requirements yet? I know there are certain things they need to know and be ok with dealing with. If you have access to small children or dogs that aren't used to horses, it would be good to take those with you. Small kids are scary things and you can usually get them to scream bloody murder and make unexpected and sudden movements. Dogs that aren't used to horses will usually bark and sometimes even growl at them which will give you a good idea as to how the horse will react. Kids and dogs are also something he would see daily in the police force.

Good idea.

I wasn't with him at the time but I know one time my brother and his girlfriend took the dog to the beach and he saw some horses or ponies or something riding on the beach and went ballistic. He had never seen them before. And he is a very large dog (130 pounds, half black Lab and half Great Pyrenees) so his bark is very deep and loud, especially his "alarm" bark as I call it. "There is something scary and dangerous out there!" Which I imagine is the bark he was doing at the horses. And probably lunging. He was tied to the truck of course and/or being held by my brother but he still looks very scary. Even to people who know he's a dog. Let alone a prey animal like a horse who might think it's a wolf or something.

So anyway, my point is kind of agreeing, dogs can be very scary, but also it might be good to expose him to completely crazy dogs. Well, probably not on the first meeting, and I'm not saying to overwhelm and traumatize him or anything, and most dogs probably won't be as crazy as my boy or if they are will be way smaller dogs, but still. Not every dog will just bark. Some will lunge or try to get to the horse

 

[Kusanar]

Good idea.

I wasn't with him at the time but I know one time my brother and his girlfriend took the dog to the beach and he saw some horses or ponies or something riding on the beach and went ballistic. He had never seen them before. And he is a very large dog (130 pounds, half black Lab and half Great Pyrenees) so his bark is very deep and loud, especially his "alarm" bark as I call it. "There is something scary and dangerous out there!" Which I imagine is the bark he was doing at the horses. And probably lunging. He was tied to the truck of course and/or being held by my brother but he still looks very scary. Even to people who know he's a dog. Let alone a prey animal like a horse who might think it's a wolf or something.

So anyway, my point is kind of agreeing, dogs can be very scary, but also it might be good to expose him to completely crazy dogs. Well, probably not on the first meeting, and I'm not saying to overwhelm and traumatize him or anything, and most dogs probably won't be as crazy as my boy or if they are will be way smaller dogs, but still. Not every dog will just bark. Some will lunge or try to get to the horse

Good point. My horses are used to dogs and will actually chase a dog if allowed to but a lot of horses will get nervous.
I have been riding out on the roads before and had loose dogs come up on the road to bark at the horses and had to call the owners to come grab them before my horse turned them into a pancake.

As long as the dog stays out from UNDER the horse and doesn't bite, I can control the horses and keep them from hurting the dog, but that dog decides to nip at a leg and all bets are off. I'm not even going to TRY to stop the horse. A friend of mine even watched my herd chase coyotes out of the field where they had tried to cut through.