Personally I would not us treats to bribe this horse...she seems to
be a dominate mare and needs to know that you are the one she needs
to pay attention to. I would be careful about the lunging in
circles things because as you have seen this can make her be more
hot...alittle scarey to handle. Although this could be good for
some horses not everything works for every horse. I am not totally
againest treats but if you already have a dominate horses that is
trying to push you around the treat thing will usually ad to the
dominates and control problem. IMO



--- In retraintbs@yahoogroups.com, belgianlover098@... wrote:
>
> I have a question about my mare. She is VERY mellow and making her
walk at a
> normal pace is hard at times. She's lazy is the whole deal with
that.
> Normally she's well behaved when I go to get her from the
pasture, I walk in grab
> her and walk out. It's not a problem at all. Now that it's summer
though they
> get the whole 80 acers to run. (7 geldings, my mare) They are the
pastured
> horses. She has never came to me so the other day I walked to the
BACK to get
> her, over about 5 steep hills and so on. So, I will admit I was
tired and have
> been walking for about 15-20 mins to get her. She was fine over
the first
> hill and then once we got to the gate that leads to the last 25
acers she
> started going nuts. I have my 15 ft lead so I did what I was
taught. Every time she
> whinnies for the others make her lounge at a trot 2 laps bring
her in and
> walk on. To get her thinking about me, all goes well about 5
times later. We
> did it about every 10-30 feet. Then go to start her again, like
always right
> before she whinnies. She reared up at me, (not big but her baby
rear, roughly
> 1' maybe 1.5'. Kind of like her baby bucks) I didn't let her
scare me at that
> point and made her MOVE those feet on the ground. She trotted 5
circles. She
> was relaxed again so I pet her and kept walking. maybe 5 steps
later, she did
> it again. So, I made her move her feet again till she was on ME.
She was
> relaxed I made her disengage her haunches in one full circle.
Then turned out
> with walking forward. About 3 minutes later she trotted pushing
me out of her
> way in front of me. At this point YES I was a bit scared of her.
She was not
> her self at all. She jigged behind me with me being kinda nervous
the rest of
> the way and about then is when you could see horses in the
outdoor arena.
> When all this happened we were in the middle, no horses around at
all.
>
> She is not in heat, and has no medical issues. She is not
sore she's
> gets her massages and always told she gets stiff in her ft. left
leg but no
> other issues. Is she just THAT herd bound. Once we were in the
indoor arena she
> was as quiet as a mouse.
>
> So, with my very long post sorry how can I fix this? AND how can I
make her
> come when I call. She doesn't;t run just stands there eating her
grass. As if
> to say If I can't see you, your not there.
>