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Have you ever owned a buddy sour horse? A buddy sour horse can make doing anything without his buddy difficult. Luckily, buddy sour behavior can be cured, and you can enjoy peaceful rides with your horse again.

Start Separation at Home

The first thing to do when dealing with a buddy sour horse is to start by breaking the behavior at home. Make an effort to separate the buddies by keeping them in stalls where they cannot see each other by installing stall partitions. Depending on the size of your property, try to turn the buddies out on separate sides of the barn from each other. The more that you can initiate separation, the easier the process under saddle and off of the farm will become.

Put Your Horse to Work

When it comes time to ride your buddy sour horse, the key to success is in putting your horse to work. The basic idea of your training should be to make your horse go to work whenever he frets for his buddy. When he settles down and focuses, then allow him to return to a more relaxed walk. But if he starts to misbehave and call for his buddy, demand a fast trot or lope or canter – anything to change your horse’s focus and make him really move.

This training approach will establish the fact that when he focuses on you, things are easy for your horse. But when he starts to focus on his buddy’s absence, then he has to go to work. Repetition is key in training the buddy sour horse, so be patient and expect that it will take at least a few sessions before you can see real results.

Do an Off-Property Trial Run

Once you’ve established a good training program and work ethic in your buddy sour horse at home, it will be time to test the results off of the farm. Your horse might seem content without his buddy during on-farm riding sessions, but that can drastically change when you get him to a trail ride destination or to the show grounds.

Take your horse off of the farm for a test run before you need to attend an event like a horse show. Be sure to bring along an experienced friend to help you. If your horse is attached to one buddy in particular, then bringing along another horse can help to reassure your horse. Spend some time working with your horse off of the property.

Dealing with a buddy sour horse takes time and determination. Some horses may be more difficult to train than others, so don’t be afraid to enlist the help of a horse trainer.

Original Source:  Dealing with a Buddy Sour Horse

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