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4H Horse Project

Luke had been to 4/ 4H horse project meetings with Ace. Some nights Jayden went along and brought a horse to ride after the meeting. Some nights Ace was a sweet puppy, docile, calm and easy going. He moved out like a pleasure horse, slow and relaxed. Other times he was a monster and lost his mind. Jayden describes it as he acts like a "fire breathing dragon". At home during feeding time, he will attack any horse in the pen with him as soon as he sees you walking toward his pen with feed. He charges, butts, kicks, bites, and chases Tex who has been in his pen for a few years. He also charges the fence, teeth barred at horses across his fence. He is aggressive and crazy. He also acts awful when he is hauled with our other horses. He tries to get at them over the top of the trailer slants. At horse project when we take two horses, he paws and stomps at the trailer, he swings back and forth and hops his front feet off the ground over and over.  He is also nutty when you load him in the trailer to go home. He loads and once in, turns himself around faster than you can stop him. It makes for a bad and dangerous situation. He seems to take the fun out of the ride.  Luke ended up having to ride Joker  because Ace was out of his mind.   He also got really out of sorts when he saw a burro nearby. Most of the horses at the 4h meeting could care less. Ace on the other hand couldn't go near it without trying to attack it. He would prance around and want to be near it and then would try to attack or kick it, I even had Jayden get on him and she could barely control him. Our horses seem to create so much extra work or  trouble for us. I always wished we had the good ol gentle kid horse. Is there really such thing?

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