My mare used to be terrible about biting me when I would bend over to grab the straps for her blanket. She had great timing, and perfect aim. I would slap her every time, and make a huge noise, then go back to doing what I was doing. It really didn't phase her. She's a 1200lb monster, and I'm human. Someone suggested taking the bristle brush we use to clean the BBQ, and when she bit me, smack her on the nose with it. I thought, OMG that's awful!!! I am not going to do that. One day she nailed me friggen good. I had a huge lump, green, black, blue, purple, yellow, icky bruise. The next night I used the bristle brush, drew 3 pin pricks of blood, and she hasn't tried it again. I still feel bad about it, but it worked.


Sounds cruel, but we really can't hurt them by smacking them.

She's also food aggressive sometimes. I have learned to just feed her through the panels. She gets in trouble still for being a bully about it, but it's easier for both of us to just feed her and let her be.

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*feels special being the object of Selle's obsession *
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goflippr wrote:
I seriously want to kiss NG.