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I just traded my 15 yo QH gelding for an 8 yo Appy mare. She's gorgeous and she has a great temperment.. And up until yesterday... she was the perfect horse for me... but her and my sisters QH/Morgan mare have gotten farrrr too attached. I wouldn't even say attached because when they're in the field together they don't seem to want to be near each other but if you take one away from the other to ride they both go balistic and neigh their heads off. Yesterday while I was riding she started acting up. I would ask her to walk on and she would throw her head and trot or if I asked her to stop she would turn in the direction of my sisters horse and ignore my requests. I have never seen her buck until yesterday. After I got done riding I took off her tack and let her out into the field and she ran the fence line bucking and screaming the entire way. My sisters horse would neigh back but with no where near the same intensity as my horse. I got thrown from a horse at the beginning of June and fractured my pelvis and have been a little wary of high strung horses. I know that me being scared causes her to become more frantic but I don't know what to do. If she doesn't get over this I'm going to have to trade her back or something. Sorry this is so long but I was just wondering if anyone has dealt with a horse that had separation anxiety issues and was uncontrollable if left alone or away from another horse. How did you deal with it and what would be some things I could try?Could it just be that she's about to go into heat? I have never owned a mare before and don't really know what to expect. I've only owned geldings. My sisters mare is not your typical mare, if she's in heat you don't know because she's so laid back all the time and she doesn't have a mean bone in her body[plus she's about 14.2 H and has some slight arthritis so she has never even tried to buck]My mare is about 15.3-16H and shes pretty big. I've never ridden a horse this tall before so that might have something to do with why she intimidates me so. On the ground she listens like an angel and yesterday was the first time she wasn't PERFECT for me under saddle.Thanks so much in advance!!BTW up until I got this mare she had never been in a pasture with another horse. She was always by herself unless she was being trail ridden. I'm going to try to ride her in the same pasture/area as my sisters mare today and see how she behaves.
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