No more whining...

I have decided to move on to bitching. Hey why not? Do what one does best!

So one of the horses got smashed in the face yesterday when he ran into his gate. Poor old thing is mostly blind, so we are very careful not to signal to him to go until the gate is wide open. He is frightened of gates. Anyone with any brains knows to take their time with Britches. Well, this person was in a hurry and doesn't bother to read the horses and control her own body language (which gets to me as well) and she must have given him a sign to go and he bolted head first into the gate, tearing his skin open, needing stitches. The poor thing doesn't trust us now and it will be nearly impossible to get him through a gate again. I spent weeks working with him to get him to walk through gates and now it's all gone, because someone was too selfish to slow down and look after the horse. Britches doesn't have a lot of years left, and to live the rest of them in fear and pain is not fair to a good horse. These animals rely on us to protect them from harm. They may be far bigger, but they need us, and yesterday humans failed Britches. I for one am very disappointed in all of us at the barn for allowing just anyone to handle a special horse like Britches and feel terrible that he has to suffer because of our ignorance.