rosesr4evr wrote:
Am LOL at the buckets! I, too, have launched a few buckets at an arse. It ALWAYS seems to do the trick. The new mare I have has been acting spooky, who am I kiddin'? She IS spooky. She always acts like a cat's gonna come flying out of her butt. So my trainer lunged her with some empty buckets on each side of the saddle. Whoo hoo! First couple of laps were a bit wild, but then she calmed right down and got back to business, he then mounted up and started working the lateral. So apparently, there are several uses for buckets!! LOL!

I still wanna see PDJ make the bucket video.

I had to retrain a mustang where a farrier hung tires over the saddle to "sack her out" and it scared her so bad she ran herself into the ground and got pinned under a panel of the roundpen and the panels had to be taken down to get her out. The experience left her more untrusting than she was before she was gentled. I don't know if she rides yet. Again it just depends on the sensitivity of the horse. What happens if a person throws a bucket and the horse in question double barrel kicks the bucket, what did he learn then? That people are still picking on him? These horses do need some thoughts and a plan by someone who can read them well and make sure that good feel and timing and clarity is involved to sort out the unwanted behavior.

"It's really quite amazing what a horse will do for you, if he only understands what you want. 
And it it's also quite amazing what a horse will do to you if he doesn't." ~ Bill Dorrance