HC behaviour update! Dentist's been!

[HairyCob]

Hi all.

For those of you who have helped with advice and suggestions following my recent threads about HC's steering, bolting and general 'behaviour' problems........ an update.

The dentist came out today........ and we think we may have identified the difficulty.

Although HC saw the dentist not so long ago and therefore didn't really need much of a rasp/float, the dentist noticed something we hadn't previously noticed.

One of HC's front teeth hasn't ever developed properly, and the tooth below it had 'overgrown', causing all his lower front teeth to be kind of lopsdied which meant that he couldn't 'cross' his jaw properly- it would move sideways one way, but the over grown teeth were preventing it 'sliding' the other way.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, the dentist got his power tools out and with HC standing very still and being as good as gold, he ground the affected lower teeth down, levelling his lower teeth off so that he can move his jaw naturally again.

The proof of the pudding will be in the riding- have to give him a couple of days off for his mouth to recover- so should be able to 'test ride' (!) him at the weekend!

Will update then if anyone is interested!!

Thanks again for all your suggestions, and rest assured I will still be going back to basics and doing some groundwork with him!:D

[Ipsa]

Well, that's comforting to get that sorted out. Hopefully it will be the end of the 'hairy cob I want to go there sessions'.
Good luck with your ride.

[nat17]

Good news, hopefully your test ride will go well and do post to tell us how it went. ;)

[Lovecat]

That's good to know - hopefully this will be the start of a beautiful new relationship for the 2 of you!

Let us know how you get on!

Cathy:D

[Kerry's Partner]

HC,

Are they related, your horse and mine?? Kerry had problems last year if you remember.............."new" dentisit + vet (attending togehter) wouldn't touch her teeth as a result. SC and I btw already knew Kerry had a problem. Anyway it was ????????'d as abscess at the time - and this caused me no end of problems with the insurance compancy.

This visit same (not so new dentist + vet) declare Kerry (at about 13) has a tooth which hasn't erupted yet.

As you know I am developing a growing cynicism (not quite so healthy as being a sceptic). SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I hope for the four of us this we have "ace" dentists and vets but I do worry that we are the victims of a neat new "diagnosis". I'm sorry and I hope I am wrong!!

[tubby]

Talk about misunderstanding ! here's me thinking hairy cob was so called because she was hirsute ,but from this thread it seems that I've got it wrong & it's because she's excitng :D:D:D

[HairyCob]

Tubby- are you talking about me or my horse??!!:D ;) I'm assuming you're talking about the naglet... my confusion arises from the fact that 'she' is a 'he'!!;)

Anyway....... I took the beast out for a short hack today, in the company of my friend on her spotted pony and my other friend leading her (recovering from laminitis) Normandy Cob..... and he was as good as gold.

Will take him out again tomorrow on his own and see how he goes then.... fingers remain crossed!;)

[tubby]

:D:D Whoops done it again , if I ever met him he'd probably bite me , & I hope you are'nt hairy (am I digging a deeper hole here ? )Anyway have a good ride , hope all goes well :):)

[HairyCob]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh..........'scuse me while I descend from my cloud...

No, HC didn't finally decapitate me and turn me into an angel, I am on a cloud ['cause today I went for a short hack after work in glorious winter sunshine on a horse who was remarkably simmilar to the HC I knew and loved previously!:D :D

No napping, no spontaneous turns for wherever the fancy took him, responsive to leg and seat and generally a pleasure to ride!

Only slight problem involved a fairly narrow residential street.... man up ahead washing car, OK thinks me, this could be interesting- HC doesn't like getting his feathers wet, especially not if it involves scary soapy water across the road..... I gently but firmly push him forward in an attempt to cross this 'river' (OK, trickle) of foamy water, when, delicatley, from behind, the ice cream van sets off his bloody match of the day jingle!!!

No harm done! HC froze in terror, I hopped off and we BOTH got our feet wet as we navigated 'Somerset falls'!!:D :o

Naglets, who'd have 'em?!!

Anyway, generally speaking , the dentist filing off half his front teeth seems to have done the trick!:D

[Horsey Bird]

Hey....fantastic news. So no more blurred visions of you & said Naglet zooming past me on the roads then eh? :D Awww...I was going to challenge you two to a race.....

Flipping icecream vans....its not enough that we have to worry about fireworks, motorbikes, coach drivers who think they're on the set of the movie "Speed", oil tankers, dumper trucks and the ever-present boy-racer menace....but an ICE CREAM VAN IN OCTOBER??? Who is he kidding?

On a more serious note.....I'm still beating myself up over ML napping today and my response being "thou shalt do it". Do you think we could teach horses to speak English so we'd know what to do in these situations?

Something like; "paw the ground once if you're uncomfortable and twice if you're just being a stubborn mule". :o

As you say.....who'd have em?

[tasha]

Yay! Glad to hear he is all OK again!

And I second the pawing the ground idea, although farriery bills might go up...