Hmmm. That doesn't sound great to me. Clearly something was bothering him a whole lot ( could it have been one of the 9000 kinds of highly toxic australian wildlife we all hear so much about over here? ) and although you took him through it maybe he couldn't quite handle it
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Woah - doesn't sound nice what you experienced with beejy last night...
Do you know a lot about his past? Like the way he was trained or who rode him and how they rode him? Or whatever traumas he might have had?
Obviously something is not really ok with his mind, I think.
Anyway, don't stress too much, I'm sure that he's not angry with you. If he'll do something like that again, get off of him (if you can) and put him back in his stall or in the paddock and watch him.
The whole thing sounds really weird, and I'd really like to know what's up with him...
hmmmm, weird, maybe he was just way too over stimulated by something? Wild guess as I know my two have been doing the Look of Eagles at everything this Spring. Did he maybe hear/see a snake or large lizard taking off at the side of the arena? Maybe something bit him? But still he shouldn't be this dis-united from you for that long. Very odd. Maybe go back to pretty basic stuff like flexation and basic walk-trot-canter-and-back-again work for a couple days? Let him get his brain back into gear or something. On side note, what's wrong with your Flist?
Whoa... scary. One of my mustangs used to be terrible about completely zoning out like that. She was abused and it's taken *years* to get her mostly past it, but every now and then something sets her off and she goes back to the blank state. It scares the shit out of me - when it happens, I get off, longe her, and put her away. I do not have the guts to work it out of her. :/ I know I should maybe be more assertive/authoritative about it, but right now I feel a lot more comfortable just... letting her get over it.
I'm really curious to know how Beejay reacts after this episode, and I'm hoping I can learn from you. :)
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Do you know a lot about his past? Like the way he was trained or who rode him and how they rode him? Or whatever traumas he might have had?
Obviously something is not really ok with his mind, I think.
Anyway, don't stress too much, I'm sure that he's not angry with you. If he'll do something like that again, get off of him (if you can) and put him back in his stall or in the paddock and watch him.
The whole thing sounds really weird, and I'd really like to know what's up with him...
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On side note, what's wrong with your Flist?
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I wonder if something happened to him in the past which really freaked him out and traumatised him so much that something can set it off.
poor Beej and poor you to have to deal with this behaviour, but its sounding like you are working him out and dealing with each problem as it comes
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I'm really curious to know how Beejay reacts after this episode, and I'm hoping I can learn from you. :)
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