again their kid...their choice. but WOW :S

 

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again their kid...their choice. but WOW :S

Child on a horse without a helmet...a child whose skull has not completely hardened yet yet without a helmet on a horse not a pony but a full on HORSE....yup perfectly safe

 

We had a discussion on that second video a ways back, and how very dangerous that was. Yeah, not a smart thing to do.

 

Sometimes I wish I could strap myself in like that!! But I know how stupid and dangerous it is.

 

In the first vid tht horse is a saint..
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Wow! All I have to say is what a gentle horse... We have a few like that at our barn, just good ol' soul

 

That first video made me cringe in a few spots. But what a fantastic horse!!! The 2nd one spells stupidity, i mean, WOW!

 

There's nothing wrong with the horse but 'mom is a dimwit

 

Cowgirls Boots took the words right out of my mouth.

Even the horse in the second video has a lot of patience. The horse looked miserable, but could have be VERY naughty. And what do you think the mother would have done then?

 

some horses are true angels when it comes to stupidity...

 

My issue with things such as the situations in these videos is that when it DOES go wrong it is the horse that will pay the price - they will be punished for being "bad" or labeled as "dangerous" and the blame for the resulting injury to the child be placed on their head.

 

I will say at least the kid in the first video had a helmet and boots on. That being said, what on earth would posses someone to turn their kid loose in an area with playground equipment and a swimming pool? That horse is obviously a saint, but man, all it takes is one good spook to do some serious damage in that kind of environment.

 

You need a license to drive, need a license to fish, .....

 

Some parents can be incredibly stupid when it comes to their children and horses. I would not feel bad for the parent if their child got hurt in situations like those. Videos like that should definitely be grounds for some kind of intervention - CPS or Animal Welfare or SOMETHING.

 

That first horse is AWESOME!!! But boy, the trampoline ladder and the rocking horse in the background scared me. It would be so easy for a horse to put a leg through one of those things and freak out. I would expect the horse to freak out if that happened.

The little appaloosa pony in the second video had such a serious expression on his face. Like he knew his job but hated every minute of it! But to give him credit not many horses would carry a baby like that and not take advantage of the situation. A very stupid thing for humans to do, but I give the pony credit! The pony is like "grumble grumble, let's get around this ring, grumble grumble, maybe they'll take him off the next time around, grumble grumble!"

 

I'm a firm believer that you shouldn't strap a person to a horse. Even my friend with cerebral palsy (sever enough that he can't walk or stand) isn't strapped to his horse.

And on the first video... that horse almost pulled her off the trampoline just by pulling her head back a little. And, as stated before, if she had fallen off the trampoline the horse would have been blamed.

Oh well, their kids I guess. Those are some patient horses though.

 

That first horse really is a lady. That's the kind of horse you want for every kid.
As for the other one... All I can say is at least the kid was strapped on?

I am a firm believer that people, are stupid. No other way to put it.

 

I agree that it's the horse who gets blamed when the kids get hurt too.

The baby on the pony, with no helmet, EEK!

 

These type of people should not own horses if they are stupid enough to do stuff like this. I would never let anyone get on my horse without a helmet, much less a child. or a child with no helmet. The childs too young, they should be riding a wooden horse not a really life, fully breathing, fully flight or fight horse!

 

I almost agree with you. Almost any age can start riding, you just plop their little hinnys in the saddle in front of you and walk on along the yard. My baby brothers have been riding since they could sit up because of this, it's taught them some pretty nice balance too! :lol: This little girl is still small enough that's what I'd do with her personally

 

I loved the horse in the first video. And you do have to admit, the animal was in beautiful condition, clearly loved and well taken care of, AND beautifully trained.

However, the whole trampoline/hobby horse/swimming pool thing terrified me.

And the insanity of someone videoing this nonsense instead of intervening. An adult probably put the kid's helmet on and watched her do this.

And why the little girl was riding in the back yard when there was a round pen right next to the yard....

Second video, I just have no words, but that pony can come live with me and have the stall right next to the fabulous black QH in the first video.

 

How odd.
Makes ya think, remember when you were a kid and would do stuff w horses hoping ya didn't "get caught". Now-a-days, instead of a intervention and a scolding....they would encourage it so they could film it for youtube! :shock:

 

This is something that has puzzled me for some time now - every time I see someone posting a video or picture of their child doing something out of line I just can't help but wonder WHY you would pick up a camera and snap/film away instead of STOPPING THE CHILD. Talk about sending mixed messages - I mean, do they turn around and scold the child after they are done getting their "cute" footage? What about the next time the child does the same thing and it suddenly is wrong/not cute? It just seems like common sense has gone out the window.....

 

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:shock: totally nervous. especially when she brought the mare toward the trampoline ladder.

and between the trampoline and playground...eek eek eek

what in the world?

what would have happened if the horse spooked and the girl fell off the the trampoline between the springs

 

no not smart at all and to say bouncy bouncy
anything could have spooked the horse and he could have been killed

when I was that age my sister walked beside me
and I walked along with my daughter too

 

And when they get older, they still won't scold them..for anything, is my guess. I took my daughter to a horse camp thing when she was younger. While I was waiting around in the shade, there was a young girl (about -10-11 ish) w her friends in the breezeway, and she was not just being cruel to her pony whilst untacking, she was laughing! I felt hesitant b/c it wasn't my kid, but I couldn't take it anymore, so I walked over and took charge of the untacking, and told her that there was no need to mistreat any animal. The girl just shrugged and said "so what, she is mine", but let me take over - and ran off!!! Her mother, unbeknownst to me, was standing about 10 ft away, and she just smiled and was friendly to me - and told me where the tack went!!! HELLO? Was she just afraid of the horrid little brat she raised, or didn't correct her but didn't care if others did, or what? Its always amazing how irresponsible other parents are.

 

People are so freaking stupid.
First video- really???? No comment..
Second video- the horse's ears were pinned the whole time..
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There are a lot of safety issues with the first video but, the kid had a helmet on, the horse was/is a saint and was going to look after the child.
The second is plain dangerous having a child strapped into a saddle.

As for risk - your whole life is a risk. I was not wrapped in cotton wool as a child and got up to things that were as, if not more dangerous. Climbing trees, not jus a few feet but 20 feet up, often hauled up by older children.We raced down steep hills on home made go-karts, often with no brakes, certainly no helmets or knee pads.
We had injuries. Scrapes and wounds that bled. Someone would spit on a dirty handkerchief and rub the injury and you continued playing. When you returned home mothers washed the area and applied iodine - which was why you rarely ever complained about the injury which had hurt less than the cure.

At the age of six I would go stay with a cousin who had a pony. Her father had a horse. We would ride both about the field and orchard. We didn't think it fair that the pony had no hard feed so we would climb out her bedroom window, down the vines that covered the house and feed it half a bucket of oats. Cousin was eight.
That pony carried two of us bareback, mostly at a gallop because of the oats. We were unsupervised most of the time because we sneaked off to the field.

When my nieces and nephew were learning to ride they would be riding in the fields whilst I was doing some job out there. I was not instructing them I just let them charge around, they thought I wasn't watching as they rode double bareback or stood in the saddle and tried to canter.
They had fun. They learned to ride by balance, they learned what the ponies would suffer and what they would not.
Didn't do them any harm at all.

 

I agree with this. I think it is not parents "these days" that bug you so much. Just those reminiscent of old days. This reminds me of the stunts I pulled when I was young. My partner in crime was a Shetland pony, so at least I was closer to the ground. When I fell off, it was my fault ... Not his.

That being said, the second video is pretty awful, and not in the same category IMO.
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I am so guilty of cramming Ruger in between two fences to get on....LOL but that's because he really is a saint, like that mare, even at his young age. But he's done it so much it's routine for him.