> > I have had Scooter over a year, and we are just now > starting to really bond. I think he likes me. :)
I will have had Hunter three years in May. He's 12 years old and I don't know his history. I suspect he had lots of moves. He was an anxious, reactive, edgy, frightened horse. For weeks after I got him home, I went around muttering "I have made a HUGE mistake." I felt that buying him had made me responsible to him, so I just kept consistantly working with him. And working with him. And working with him. And trying to learn to like him. He's a very nice riding horse now, 400 times better on the ground and every now and then I get the very real pleasure of seeing his eyes soften and his body relax when he sees me. Somehow there is more joy in that for me than if he had been an easier horse. Nancy
