For all you with lazier horses..found the cure!

[JackSprats Mom]

For all of you with slightly lazier horses (energy conservationists ;)) I think I've found the cure!

Apparently loose llamas running flat out down the street and then into the barn livens them up and then BOY! do you have a horse thats in front of your legs.

I have decided to give up my current job to now set up a business renting wild llamas out, included in the fee is a video of your horse in his spectacular new found forwardness for you to show all your friends so they can wow at his energy and bounce.

Please Call 1-800 Llamas to make you appointment!

The little encounter made for a great ride :D

[quietann]

For all of you with slightly lazier horses (energy conservationists ;)) I think I've found the cure!

Apparently loose llamas running flat out down the street and then into the barn livens them up and then BOY! do you have a horse thats in front of your legs.

Oh. dear.

Unfortunately, while maresy is scared of goats, her reaction is to go backwards -- and up, if pressed hard enough -- rather than forward, sigh.

But I have to say, working her in the indoor at the new place, at night (eeep!!! shadows!!!!!) with no other horses (and the indoor is not attached to the barn) had a similar effect to the llamas. We had forward, oh yes we did...

[whicker]

I live next to llamas and alpacas. The llamas are the guard animals for the alpacas. They spit at you like a camel. Then there are the maremma livestock dogs that guard the herd. At least they look like dogs and they bark. LLamas make weird noises, too.

Some horses get quite forward and good at pirouettes when coached by llamas. They do even more spectacular moves with coaching from emus at speed...

[mickeydoodle]

I have found a similar effect from running mini donkeys. Exceptional piaffe and an explosive passage with suspensioin of extrordinary height occur when and escapee from the depraved mini donky farm runs up behind ones dressage steed. Maybe Edward Gal has a secret stash of llamas or donkeys or emus and he gives Totilas a peek at them before they go into the ring.

[Bobblehead]

. . . depraved mini donky . . . Yes, chasing my mare in the arena during a ride . . . trying to mount her . . . doesn't seem to notice he was gelded a year ago and her 14.3 self towers over him. She was righteously pissed. Cutting horse, donkey-fighting horse, forward horse, she had it all right then. :lol:

[Reiter]

Should you have a horse that doesn't mind the lamas, try austriches! Years ago, when the austrich craze was going on several of my neighbors raised them and going trail-riding in the area was always exiting! The austriches would see the horses and come running up with their wings puffed out and I have to admit they did look scary and I couldn't blame the horses for never quite getting used to the crazy critters. Then one day, mysteriously, they were all gone!

[piccolopony]

Our neighbor used to have Bison on the property RIGHT next to us. Our horses quickly got used to them and their effects on forward motion were lessened. However it was always fun when new horses would come to the property and we got to see the effects all over again:lol::lol:
We also discovered that they were great for luring tourists down our driveway :mad: :eek::lol:(we live right alongside a very busy state park)