I have a crazy idea.
Saturday, I hatched a random hare of an idea. It will likely never be more than an idea, but I'm wasting time chewing on it anyway.
I wonder if the therapy barn would sell me Nova?
Nova is a Morgan x Arabian gelding. He used to be a show jumper, and is now rather infamous for being a stall agressive, leader-nipping horse. Few volunteers want to handle him and he's lightly used at the moment. So why the hell do I want him?
I think that he needs, more than anything, a new job. I think that if he had only one or two people who worked with him who took the time to learn his particular needs/wants (and he is a very particular guy), who gave him an active and more interesting life, that he might not BE such an angry horse anymore. I mean, look at this face:
What part of that face says "I'm a dick for no good reason" to you? I just think that he's not a good fit for a therapy horse. Besides, to all reports he's not bad under saddle...just a complete prick to everyone on the ground. He's never actually bitten me, just threatened to...a lot. Since even Shiloh, the worlds sweetest horse ever, has bitten me when uncomfortable, I'm not ready to write him off as mean just yet.
I don't know-it's just a thought. I mean first they'd have agree, and then he'd have to check out sound to still jump...