Don’t let your past define you!
I was recently thinking about one of the special horses we had at Blazin’ Saddles. Some of you may remember the big-headed buckskin horse, Cowboy. He was a favorite of many campers as well as my own kids. He was special! When I think about Cowboy and how much we loved him, I also think about the horse he was when we got him. A spoiled brat that I regretted buying!
I purchased Cowboy because he was cheap and all I could afford for a camp and lesson horse that year. I knew he was buddy sour when I got him, but I didn’t realize what a train wreck he actually was at 18 years old.
A day or so after we got him, I went to catch him so I could ride him and it took forever. He had gotten away with not being caught too many times in the past. My kids will tell you, if we pick the battle to catch a horse, we keep on until the horse is caught so they don’t think they got away with it or it becomes a bad habit very quickly. It took about 20 minutes to catch him on that particular day and I was not happy.
After I finally caught him, I took him out and tied him to the hitching rail. Within a few seconds of tying him, I found out he was a master at pulling. He would pull back and break the rope he was tied with. He would pull so hard that many times when the rope or halter broke, he would flip over backward. I ended up having to saddle him in a stall in the barn to keep him from pulling and breaking halters and ropes and hurting himself in the process.
He wasn’t only awful on the ground because of his pulling, he was also horrible to ride. He was so buddy sour, that when I would ride him down the driveway, he would immediately head for the ditch. He would try and run me into the ditch, thinking he would scare me so I would let him go home to his buddies. He had gotten away with being a turd in the past and getting to go home because he made his rider nervous.
Little did Cowboy know…he had met his match. There would b
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