An open letter to the Crappy Stallion Owners of America
Oct 19 2009
Dear Crappy Stallion Owners of America,
Yesterday someone visited my trainer’s barn and stopped by the VLC’s stall to admire him. She asked if she could pet him and was told to go ahead. While they were petting and admiring, the lady showing her the barn observed that he was currently the only stud there.
Petting lady jumped back like she had been touching fire, convinced she was in imminent danger of having her arm eaten off. She was quickly assured that she was in no peril and could resume worshiping him in the manner he thinks he rightfully deserves. 
I was told this story last night and asked myself, yet again, why stallions have such a bad P.R. problem. Well, the answer is that it’s because of you. You crappy stallion owners. You morons that permit biting, screaming, striking, kicking, and dragging. Or who dole out such inconsistent and/or crazy discipline that you make your nice horse completely crackerpuppies. Then you spend the rest of his life leading him with a chain and an aluminum baseball bat (or actually, he leads YOU) and screaming out “STALLION COMING!” like you are Britney Spears’ bodyguard clearing a path through the paparazzi.
I am sick of you! I am sick of your incompetence ruining it for everybody else. You take nice horses and create socially inept lunatics out of them, locking a herd animal away from all others of his kind and allowing him to make contact with them only for breeding. Oh, and then you try to show him, when that’s the only time he comes near others of his kind, and you wonder why you’re being dragged around the arena like a kite on a string. If you would just keep your colt running with the geldings, you’d be amazed at how much better he’d be in a crowded arena full of horses. Or turn him out with the already pregnant broodmares. That’ll knock some manners into his teenage head.
It is not an excuse that your stallion is a ‘hot’ breed. I can name stallions of every ‘hot’ breed all day who are not freaking idiots. Go talk to the endurance people. They ride their stallions 50 to 100 miles. Do you think they ride down the trail screaming “STALLION COMING!!!”? Uh, no. I’m pretty sure the other endurance people would kick your ass for that. Sheila Varian has been trail riding and chasing cows on her Arabian stallions forever and I’m pretty sure she accomplished it all without needing a baseball bat to lead them to the hitching rail.
In short, your stallion’s rank, idiotic behavior is probably your fault (and if it’s not, he needs to be gelded). It’s human-created, and it has created a P.R. nightmare for all of the well behaved and well trained stallions on the planet. And in these days of horse overpopulation, we do not need for anything that is not well behaved and well trained to BE a stallion.
So call your vet, and have it turned into a badly behaved gelding – because that’s exactly what you are going to get. Removing testicles does not fix training problems. You will now have a rank, snarly gelding, and instead of getting the training help you need, you will run around telling everybody that horses don’t settle down even after you geld them, and perpetuating the cycle of misinformation.
Yes, stallions need boundaries, but so do all horses. I’ve been hurt the worst in my life by geldings.
Here’s the kind of behavior and control you should be aspiring to reach with your stallion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S06HMxA0iKI
Do you think Lynn ever had to yell “STALLION COMING!!!”? I’m thinking not.
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First of all this is all to common, just because he has his balls, does NOT mean he has some right to be a idiot. I mean really, are men who have had a vasectomy suppost to act diffrently? No, but those men are married and therefore trained byt heir wife to act as they should. (HeeHee, sorry!) But personally I have had to deal with way too many stallions that are kept away from all other horses besides for to breed. Don’t we all know that horses are herd animals at this point, and that your asking for trouble if you isolate them? If not, you do not need to own a stallion. But then again I am one of those if he’s not perfect and has done something with his life he should be cut, people. Way to many stallions is a big part of this problem. A friend of mine bought a really nice AQHA stallion from a some of the idiots who needed to yell “STALLION COMING”, who kept him isolated. Too bad for him she had a few pregnant broodmares who where all to happy to teach manners, so she promptly let him run right into the herd. We’ll just say all of them got in a lesson or two before he could stop, turn, and get out of there. For the next few days she turned him out all day with them in the feild (so no one got cornered) and before he got to eat each evening in his stall he had to behave for ground work lessons. Guess what, he has manners now! She showed him in cutting, with mares; she ties him at the rail, with mares; he lives in a barn, with mares! And he will not bat a eyelash at them if he is in a halter, under saddle, or otherwise in the pressence of a human. Now as any stallion he likes to talk in the spring, but you step in the barn, and he’s more interested in if your going to give him hay then anything else. He’s 28 now, and had his last foal on the ground this year, now the old guy gets to be spoiled (in a GOOD way, there is a diffrence) for the rest of his days.
And as you say so much on here, because he is old is NOT a reason for him to be skinny.
As is, because he’s a stallion. How many times do I hear “it’s because he’s a stud” when I see a underweight horse…..and it’s winter? Really, yes breeding season takes a fair amount of energy for them, but if you deserve to own a stallion you make up for that, maybe he’s trim during that time but not underweight, and not year-round!
And amen, to the gal who says this goes for mares too! I’m so tired of, she’s grumpy because she’s a mare…. Ummmm… So she can kick, bite, rear, be basically a B****, just because she’s female? Okay…..
Your horses behavior is YOUR doing, not theirs. Granted there is a grace period for that if the horse had problems before you got it, but put the time in, or pay the trainer to put the time in, I don’t care! I just want to ride my nicely behaved horse and not have to watch you the whole time to make sure I’m not going to be killed by your idiot horse who you are equally a idiot to.
How dumb the horse acts=How dumb the owner is……there are trainers who work with these types of horses, put to effort in and find one!
By the way I’m new here and love your blog, it is amazing!
-Becky
http://topeka.craigslist.org/grd/1401787937.html
Here you are. A horse that nnnnneeeeeedddddssss to be gelded.
There are crappy stallion owners out there, and there are good stallions because of good stallion owners.
I am posting a video of mine, showing his first day ever over jumps, which also shows his sweet nature and his camera savy, always shows his best side, physically and mentally, and also being ridden by a 14 year old girl. I have owned 7 stallions, they have all been just like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CvgkR1zHiI.
sorry, I accidently put a . at the end of my good stallion video. Here it is again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CvgkR1zHiI
and my website
http://www.bashcurlfarm- 2.com
Nah, she doesn’t yell “STALLION COMING THROUGH”… She just whips the shit out of them back behind the stalls. It’s a sad fact that I’ve witness myself.