I’m
So
Confused 
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Who is the OP?
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Wait. What?
People are talking about the OP’s horse, not yours.
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@Mustang_Levi joined in 2019 but posted only a few times. Nothing crazy, normal stuff. If @J-Lu is the same person, just own it. Maybe they forgot they had two logins and swapped browsers, who knows. But being a clown about it is ridiculous.
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I agree with others say look at teeth, ulcers, etc.
But on the original question, I have had great luck with DePaolo Tranquility calming supplement. When my appendix mare was on extended stall rest, we had her on oral reserpine and I would also Ace her prior to handwalking and she would still blow through if anything triggered her. Swapped her over to the loading dose of Tranquility while weaning off the reserpine and was able to live through the under saddle part of her rehab process without death and destruction. She got injured this summer so I immediately ordered another bucket, and within a few days on the loading dose (she was on stall rest) the barn staff were remarking at how mellow she was. I was able to walk her up and down the canal bank and she stayed very quiet. Others at my barn have tried it and not seen as good of results but a) I don’t think they committed to the full loading dosage, and b) both were geldings, which may be coincidence, but thought I’d mention it.
Huh. Interesting.
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It appears I’ve been hacked. I’m not @J-Lu-but the “real” Mustang Levi! I am thinking of deleting my account and opening under a new name to stop the hack. Has anyone else been hacked on this sight? Too bad because the posts on my horse issue have been great and I’ve been enjoying all the comments and trying some on Buddy. Sorry this internet “glitch” happened and have no idea why!
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Definitely try ear plugs and/or those soundless bonnets.
I find blinders to make horses more spooky because things move in and out of their line of vision unnaturally fast as opposed to their natural wider view.
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Weezer-I walked Buddy a lot when I first got him, for the same reasons you say here. It does help-a lot! He is so much better now, so the big spook last week really surprised me. I guess he will always have that “go to” reaction when he is tense. I should have gotten off him about 15 minutes before when he started “jigging.” I have a hard time getting back on these days because of hip and back issues, so I tend to not want to dismount unless there’s a rock or a place I can get a “boost” to get on again! But thanks for your comments. I do like having walks with my horse and he loves it too!
I found something called Redmans Gold at my local feed store. If the “testimonials” on the bag are true, it should work wonders on him after only a few days feeding. Synchill sounds good too. It is way more expensive, but if it works…it says it has 5-HTP and L-theanine. I’ll keep those ingreditents in mind looking at calming supplements. Thanks
Interesting that someone called J-Lu responed as if me-and it wasn’t! My horse does stand quietly, he has no back issues, but I am calling the Vet this week about his teeth. It’s been a few years. He does’t start out tense. It’s always an external factor-like seeing goats in a field, or another horse in a pasture, and his tension starts to go up, almost palpable. He just seems to be a “worryer”. Worried about all kinds of things. He is so much better when I ride with my friend and there’s another horse. I am trying a supplement now for calming,
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DJ JONES-thanks for researching my profile. I am not J-Lu, and I don’t know who is or why this person has entered our otherwise very interesting discussion on anxious horses and spooking. I am owning that I am Mustand Levi (so named because I had a mustang once named Levi-the most awesome horse I have ever owned!). I do not have two logins, so I’m just as confused as everyone else on who is J-Lu. Maybe THEY need to “own up to it”!!!
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I have my mare on Tribute Kalm N Easy. Works for her.
Every so often this site has a glitch that when someone posts it list another poster’s name.
Letting @Moderator_1 know helps, they can fix it from their side.
We had plenty of horses that thru all that has been mentioned and time and more training quit being so overreactive.
Then we bought a sweet and nice 6 year old palomino gelding.
We kept him 24/7 out to pasture with other geldings.
From the first day here, he was spooky and got worse.
When riding thankfully his spooks were more of a startle and grab himself and shake.
In the pasture, when eating under the barn overhang with the others, if something set him off, he would sell out, then turn around and stand high headed, shaking.
After a scare, you could feel his sides heaving when riding or see his heart racing when out in the pasture.
After vet checks and months of trying to settle him, we tried changing total management, sent him to a riding club in town, where he was ridden in the arena, hauled to other arenas and group trail rides and he was a saint there.
We decided that maybe living in the wide open prairies on a ranch with all kinds of critters and smells and scary things on the horizon just was not for him and his comfort was more important than trying to change him.
I don’t think OP’s horse is like that, since it has good moments, but someone else may have a horse that just don’t fit their environment and can learn from our sweet but wimpy horse’s story.
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I’m trying to make sense of @J-Lu posting as you. My apologies. Contact @Moderator_1 and they’ll sort it.
I think @J-Lu responded thinking this was a different thread. It’s not like the response lines up at all with @Mustang_Levi’s situation. Weird that J-Lu wouldn’t just … scroll up, realize the mistake, and say “whoops, my bad” but 
It doesn’t look like anything has been hacked. No one is claiming to be anyone they’re not. J-Lu just seems confused about where she is and that this thread isn’t about her and her horse.
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@Mustang_Levi I want to hear about your mustang. I have one and so.in.love with this guy. And so fun to reflect back on our journey together. I marvel that he was in the wild until age 6.
So tell us your story and don’t leave anything out!
And on your current horse…CAN you put him on the buckle off the mounting block? I’m curious where his anxiety starts.
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I think JLu is on another similar thread about spooky horses. I find that sometimes when I’m writing a response, I inadvertently change the thread on my screen and then then COTH asks me which thread I want to reply to, the one open now or the one where I originally started to respond to.
So far I think I’ve always caught myself and chosen the correct thread but if the choice was between two very similar threads it would be easy to make the wrong choice.
Right now I am looking at my screen and replying and behind my reply I am seeing the “suggested topics” list, and if I fumbled and touched one of those for instance scrolling back up to read the OP or just carrying my phone into the kitchen or answering a text message in a different app, I would now be open in a different thread like “Dumped Dog Please Reassure me” and would get a “choose your thread” message when I went to do final Reply
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Yep, I agree, and have had that same thing happen. The doubling down is pretty weird though
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Really?
I think doubling down is very much in character.
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Lol! I guess that’s a very good point!
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