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its one thing if the horse is just mean, but try to consider they are a prey animal like chickens. they do stupid things when under pressure. their ability to reason is pretty limited. if something falls over and lands behind your chickens, they all jump and try to escape the imagined predator. same with a horse, only when he jumps and your in the way it hurts...you. Horses unless shown how to do otherwise do think with the escape side of their mind. you can eventually get thru to most horses and show them that almost everything they thought was scarey or just to much to deal with really isnt. but it takes repetition after repetition. in the process bad things can happen. I dont know what caused the accident. I will say if the horse is just plain mean and bites and kicks and refuses to accept any sort of training then the world is better off if he is dog food. If the horse is in the middle of training and quite often finds the pressure to much to handle and explodes then a different approach should be considered, if no methods are working...then dog food it is. rescues are full of throw away horses and those that refuse or are unable to accept training stand in the way of a good horse that will.
I hope your friend is ok and it really was just an accident.
its one thing if the horse is just mean, but try to consider they are a prey animal like chickens. they do stupid things when under pressure. their ability to reason is pretty limited. if something falls over and lands behind your chickens, they all jump and try to escape the imagined predator. same with a horse, only when he jumps and your in the way it hurts...you. Horses unless shown how to do otherwise do think with the escape side of their mind. you can eventually get thru to most horses and show them that almost everything they thought was scarey or just to much to deal with really isnt. but it takes repetition after repetition. in the process bad things can happen. I dont know what caused the accident. I will say if the horse is just plain mean and bites and kicks and refuses to accept any sort of training then the world is better off if he is dog food. If the horse is in the middle of training and quite often finds the pressure to much to handle and explodes then a different approach should be considered, if no methods are working...then dog food it is. rescues are full of throw away horses and those that refuse or are unable to accept training stand in the way of a good horse that will.
I hope your friend is ok and it really was just an accident.
