06/16/2026
This may be an unpopular opinion, but the expectation that your c**t starter can completely transform a horse into something else isn’t fair.
Hear me out.
There is a difference between your c**t starter teaching and working your horse to make a better well rounded partner. Absolutely.
Building confidence, creating boundaries, teaching better skills—that’s our job.
We cannot, however, change your horse or their personality.
Your c**t starter cannot change 6 years of naughty behavior in 30-60-90 days. You simply can’t.
Especially if the owner doesn’t have the knowledge, timing, feel or skill to continue what the trainer is teaching your horse.
Expecting a horse to change who they are at their core is a disappointment waiting to happen.
Rusty is an anxious guy at his core. I will not be able to change that. I can give him proper tools to be better, but I cannot change his personality.
Cinder is bred to be hot, quick and fast. She reacts quick because that’s what her genetic make up tells her to do. I cannot train that out of her. I can hone her skills to be used appropriately and have time and place-but at her core, she will be a hot feely mare.
Legacy is a 3yr old at heart. He’s goofy, playful, and mentally immature. I can train him, expose him, teach him what to do and how to be. He is my steady eddy in all things too. But I cannot force him to be a grown up and not wanna play all the time.
There is a time and place to teach and grow skill. And a time and place to accept.
It has taken me 6 years to accept Rusty as who he is. It can always get better, but it won’t change who they are.
C**t starters cannot perform miracles. They absolutely can create CHANGE. Which can be perceived as a miracle especially when ol Bucky learns how to do a lead change or back up softer.
But if their personality is to “be something”, you’ll either spend their whole life fighting to change it or you’ll learn acceptance and how to work with them.
That adaptability depends on you.
Your c**t starter cannot work miracles. They work c**ts.
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