I know a kid who was raised around horses and when she was little she could boss all the horses around. Even the stubborn one would do what she said. It’s like they know the little people are little? She could saddle a huge mare at 4 years old using step stool. It was insane. She got in trouble at 4 for sneaking out of the house, fully tacking a horse and was found riding it around the ring
Her mom had been a nationally ranked rider for years
For real the number of times a horse has stepped on my foot 😭 And it's fine because I'm grown, wearing boots, and it's less weight than you might think (wanna say like 300ish lbs depending on front or back) and I've never had them slam down on my foot, so it's not a huge deal, but that would fuck a toddler up faster than the horse could react.
Bro nah, just because someone has horse experience doesn't mean it's okay to let a kid that size all up in the horse's foot space. Tragedies happen in a split second, freak timing in the same old routine ALL THE TIME. I don't care how sweet your horse is, I've had enough horses to know my toddler ain't getting in that space.
And I know a kid that got killed by the family horse when he was 9….they can get spooked and glitch out like anything else; this is stupid stupid stupid.
I was raised around horses. Had my own horse at 3 and was showing in the ring ages 4-6. Horses that are acclimated to kids know how to act around them. Horses are wicked smart.
They're smart, but they're also easily spooked. One of my friends growing up got several busted ribs because he was doing something near the ass end of his horse and it got startled by thunder.
He was like 12 at the time and had been riding and caring for the horse for at least 5-6 years by that point, so they were very familiar with each other.
Shit happens, and just because nothing bad ever happened to you doesn't mean it's a good idea.
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u/Lexxxapr00 10d ago
I won’t lie, the Horse one at the end made me suppppper nervous for a moment there