Heavy Horse Intimidates his owner! How can I help??

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This is a lovely well set and kind natured cob, there is however a snowballing problem where he will not allow anyone to lunge him on his left side and the more you try the more he will shoulder barge you out of the way! This behaviour has lead to a total disrespect of space and his owner is understandably becoming more intimidated.
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49 thoughts on “Heavy Horse Intimidates his owner! How can I help??”

  6. PLEASE get a mic on your coat – if you turn away, we can't hear you. The camera woman is pointing the camera to a horse who is getting ready to urinate while you are in the frame. And during editing – make the loud woman's voice softer it about blew my eardrums out. Thanks for reading.

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  7. He’s a lovely horse! I wonder why this had happened? I love Steve’s touch “to let them know they’re good they are”. I’m doing that with my dogs now & they LOVE it 😂

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  16. Beautiful horse both in looks and personality.
    Dee you did so well when Steve asked you to take over. There was alot to remember and put into action all in one go and you cracked it.
    Steve thank you for sharing your knowledge with us, as always, wonderful to watch.

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  22. I loved when Steve became the horse. It was a great teaching method for the owner to learn the correct technique, without committing mistakes with the horse . Brilliant.

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  24. Hi Steve and Tanya, thank you so much for sharing your groundwork principles! I have used your techniques on my 2yo colt Frankie, who can extremely pushy with me. We have a bit of history to work through, but he is slowly starting to see me as his leader. Frankie is very much like Bentley with his left shoulder coming into me especially when I am trying to get him to move around me. 💙🤠

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  25. I have an Andalusian that does the same as this guy. I finally went to using the flag because she didn't care about me at all. I got her out and I am only trying to get her to walk about me. But oh no!! I forgot my flag. I was able to keep her off me with the rope but she gets going in such a small circle I get dizzy so I stopped and put her away. I tried at first with a lunge whip but that made her crazy, so flag it was. She does not like to disengage and gets mad at me. Looks at trying to bite me, or when she is jumping around she will try and kick at me with a hind leg. The flag has made a big difference. I am still waiting for your flags.

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  29. When you’re the horse and explaining how and what to the owner, I have to laugh, but it is also REALLY helpful and I would probably need a couple of months of that human to “human horse” training before I would begin to feel ready to work with a horse.

    It gives me hope that maybe with such, I could overcome my fears… and that is with having occasionally ridden horses before ten years ago and helped groom and handle them a little here and there.

    I never understood. I begin to understand theoretically. I hope one day or lifetime to understand deeply and handle myself harmoniously and effectively.

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  35. Timing is everything. Immediately you get compliance, reward. Dogs are my thing. I'm only little, but have owned giant dogs. Herd mentality/pack mentality are very similar. I may only be 5 feet tall, but both my ponies respect me.If I want to go where they currently are, I go and they move because it all belongs to me. When I got into the stables to bring the haylage, I stand and wait and look at the mare's feet (she's in charge of the gelding). I say nothing, I don't look at *her*, I simply look at her feet and only move forward, when she has moved back away from the gate. If she moves half a step toward me, I move back. She knows that I don't open the gate, and she won't get her grub, until she and the gelding have moved away from the gate to give me space to get in. I wouldn't accept my giant dogs being disrespectful and impolite and I won't accept it from ponies either. That being said, I do occasionally have gingernuts in my pockets lol.

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  38. ….as it’s said, the way to harmony does not always look harmonious. But just a few assertive gestures and this stunning horse is like – I got it. This is nothing compared to continuous discussions in the stable over years where the risk of injury or worse is always present. This horse was like a locomotive coming towards you or moving opposite. Amazing work Steve – you make it look so easy and watching the video, all makes perfect sense and then one stands in the dirt field and the horse is like, really – what do you want now…. but then just small changes are happening, and one just realizes that your decades of training and experience make it look so effortless but with repeating exercises changes are possible. As always, respect for the owner to seek help and I am so happy to hear she makes progress with this beautiful boy – I think I have a new favourite colouring in horses.

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  39. Such a beautiful horse. So happy to see both horse and owner learning how to work together. Glad neither Steve or Tanya were hurt at the start of this session. Thanks very much for sharing your time and talents. Best wishes to you all.

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