He thinks he is a puppy.What can I do to prevent my yearling from chewing the on the leadrope when I walk him?

Question

My yearling thinks he is a puppy. Everytime we go for a walk my mini bites and chews at the leadrope. He shakes it back and forth and it makes it very difficult to walk with him. His head is constantly down trying to get a hold of the lead rope. I tried to shake the lead rope, but he is starting to jump or rear at the sound and I get real scarried. Did I train him to rear or is he just scarried too? I quit doing it because I don't want him to jump up and now he is back to chewing and playing with the leadrope again in his mouth. I'm not getting no where. He also bites at my hand, legs and nothing works, it only gets worse. I already thought about selling him because I can't handle him. I only had him for 4 weeks. Please help. Thanks for reading.

Answer 1

You should not have bought him if you can't handle him....
Anyways- if he is freaking out with the rope jingling what you need to do is go to the next step. First- say NO or make a loud airhorn/buzzer noise and give him an evil haughty look directly into his eyes (shows you are dominant and that he is annoying you). With most horses, this works unless they consider you way under them in the pecking order.
Then you may have to move up to step 2: whack him on the nose (don't just push) and say NO or make that sound again . Just once and then walk on like nothing happened. You may have to do it a lot in the begining, but he should stop after a couple times. If he walks for a bit without doing anything praise him and give him some scratches.

Something else you did not mention: does he get any social time outside with other horses? A bored young horse that is kept alone can become more naughty because there are no adults to keep them in line and no one to play with.

Answer 2

You and your dog could go to an obedience class together and you could both get beyond this. It is not nearly as hopeless as it seems! You just need to learn to be assertive with your dog and things will be a lot better. If you get another dog, you will likely have the same problems or worse ones.
There are some reasonable basic training classes available at large pet stores and it's a good place to start if finances are limited. GL with your dog. You will be fine, ya just need a little help.

Answer 3

for the reason that puppy Rocks are literally not authentic. i can't answer this question honestly. besides the undeniable fact that, I do have many puppy Rocks. My famous one is formed like some type of tremendous detention middle shank. no longer that i bypass round making shanks for human beings in detention middle. yet when the celebration arose and the cost became ideal i'm really positive i might want to finagle it. I actually have little tiny puppy Rocks. those are type of lovable, yet my youthful babies thieve them from me and paint them. This certainly makes me mad. no longer that i'd shank them for it, yet when it became an fantastically fantastic rock, one which I actually have bonded with over a lengthy era of time, i'm positive i might want to finagle that too.

Answer 4

Wait, are you talking about a horse?