> "flash backs"
 > JP :>of her abuse .
 > I know the feeling.  I don't think I'd ever have
 > another horse that I didn't raise myself, or didn't at
 > least know the person who trained it.  I've found
 > things with Shiloh that I just don't get...little
 > quirks that are obvious left-overs from some training
 > trauma, but I don't know what they were, and thus it's
 > hard to help her overcome them.  Now Fiddle on the
 > other hand...her little quirks are so familiar to me
 > that I don't even think about them...and I KNOW where
 > they came from (g).
    I know what you mean ......
 > JP :>    Well ........ don't know 'bout the "miracle"
 > part ...
 > JP :>just a lot of TLC and patience .
 > Well, that too!
    And, she pulled another one of her "tricks" (unruly behavior) AGAIN last 
week  ...... I thought we were doing so good together.  I took her in 
the round pen to work her ..... I had her saddled up but only had her halter 
on with the lunge line and I started to lunge her.
    She made it 1/4 way 'round in the pen (at a walk no less) and all of a 
sudden she started to buck .... I want to tell you she would have made a good 
rodeo horse look bad the way she was bucking  ...... Meg, I have no 
idea what set her off ..... and, she bucked 2 1/2 times around in the round 
pen ..... she pulled so hard against me that she pulled the lunge rope out of 
my hands.
    Here she was bucking - lunge line trailing behind her. When I finally got 
her to stop, she was quivering and shaking all over.  I did manage to get to 
her and slowly pull the lunge line together.  Her actions were such that I 
didn't know if she was going to stand still or go off any minute.  As it was, 
she did stand still and calm to my voice cooing to her.  After she was 
totally calm, we started around the pen again on the lunge line and she was 
good as gold.
    She's dangerous, Meg ...... I know it and I'm really very careful with  
her.  I don't think I'm going to ride her.  I'll work her on the lunge line 
and that's it.
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