Where to start on a thread where nobody knows you, but you do have a history. :) Maybe this will be the dumbest thing you ever read....
I guess I will just start with last night when I went out to tend to my 4 year old Mustang Oliver and a swollen sheath. His winky wanker wasn't even coming out for him to pee... I was concerned, the area was warm... I tried a few things unsuccessfully and I let him be. Thought about it some more... "how can I get close enough to him to touch it and clean it out for him, or at least run water on it" He is lifting his back leg to hit it.... so I don't want to get too close... not me, the sheath... like kicking at his stomach area. I generally don't tie him down because of a lot of reasons that you don't have the history on, and we do everything at liberty and I've touched and cleaned him many times before. He is very gentle and sweet with me...
I thought. I'll put him in this first stall.... he'll be between me and the wall and I will feed him. :) and just do my usual thing of cleaning him with the excalibur.
More history... during another recent episode when he was scared or mad he came into a person with his hip, aggressively.... I've seen it.... he does get riled up over people he does not know, like... etc.... and if he has pain he's a baby....
last night with me though, he swung his hip away from me, the stuff, my hand, the entire thing..... then he pushed me with his head.... like, no, please don't..... I tried again, and he pushed me away again.... I could tell he was trying to hold it together and not be mean to me..... he has never bit or kicked... ever.
The relationship with the horse is so intriguing to me..... and this horse I've mothered since he was 8 weeks old. That is just how I say it because he had no mother... he was orphaned. Another part of a long history. I've worked on touching him a zillion times before, everywhere.... he and I have come to trust one another and eventhough he trusted me last night, I had to let him go before it got to anything more escalated because in his sweet Oliver way, he was saying no.... and I listened to him..... why piss him off when he's already bugged by something in his winker wanker area... where he has to pee.... it is such a helpless feeling though to want to help and that they won't always let you..... they are stubborn in that way aren't they? They don't always know what is possibly best for them....
anyway, didn't mean to start out with a story about sheath cleaning, but I don't usually have too much drama with my horse, he's never really been injured.... I just guess my point is that he wouldn't have responded as nicely to anyone else as he did to me.... he went out of his way to not be aggressive, to gently let me know what I was doing was not okay with him....
I'm so glad this morning he's better and the swelling is down.... today I think I'll get him a little more used to the hose and maybe I can run it on him and see if he likes that. :)
I'm almost wondering if he got bit or stung.
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