Depends on who you know in the slaughter industry.
No horse no matter how well trained with good pedigree. Isn’t guaranteed it wont end up at slaughter. Slaughter is a easy way to dispose of horse’s I’ve done it before.
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I think perhaps your view of “most people in the horse industry” is preventing you from listening to some good advice. If a horse is unsafe to so many people other than your family, there’s a big red flag there. I also wonder if he is totally safe around your family. I wouldn’t be risking my children’s safety to prove it.
If you want to be taken seriously, please use punctuation and proof read your posts. It is very difficult to read what you are trying to convey. You have come on a forum to ask for advice. If you make it nearly impossible to understand what you are writing, you turn off people who may have otherwise offered some help.
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Horses are like teenagers, they can be fairly pleasant until you start asking them to do something. I have known many adult horses that are purely pets, ask those pets to do a job and all heck can break loose. As a trainer, the only way I justify a horse that occasionally is aggressive, is if they are the worlds brokest horse and great undersaddle. If he was really sent through the sale as a highly problematic horse, it’s too sad you didn’t save one that wasn’t that way. Those got shipped out too.
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Congratulations.
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Thanks for the compliment.
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The issue is, as you stated yourself (quoted below), people can not understand what you are saying so they missread your post.
Perfect grammar and punctuation is clearly not expected here (heck, they let me post). But we need to understand what you are saying and asking in order to respond.
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Yup.
No paragraphs and run on sentences and that urgent refusing to take any advice style of writing make the OP sound like she is either 14 or else just on here to vent and wants some pats on the head for her horse skills.
OP I don’t know why horsey is perfect for you and a raging loco bronc for everyone else. I don’t even know if I 100 % believe that you extensively ride him or if he’s more a pasture pet.
At any rate you have answered your own question. He is by your account perfect for you and dangerous for everyone else foolish enough to want him. So you get to keep him for life, which is why you rescued him, right?
If you can’t keep him or he turns on you then you have him.euthed humanely at home. You don’t send him back into the horror of auction and a three day drive to Mexico slaughter house.
And you don’t try to sell him to another naïve backyard owner.
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@Scribbler I believe in a situation like this, we are talking about “skillz” rather than skills :lol::lol::lol:
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OP- if you have 25 years experience and such a connection with this horse, why are you posting here?
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Perhaps we’re dealing with a rather challenged individual, hence the rather hard to read (as well as follow) posts?
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Can you explain what the other people are seeing when he is “on the rampage”?? Is he going after other people trying to handle him? Is he playing in a field? What exactly is he doing?
If he is doing a Jekyll/ Hyde thing then you are really taking a chance or you are making all this up. I hope the kids handling him is an attempt at a bad joke.
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For those folks suggesting slaughter, please remember that slaughter is no longer done in the United States. Now it involves a long truck ride to Mexico. I am sure their standards for cruelty are the lowest of the low. I am not anti-slaughter. I am a former animal cruelty investigator. Please choose to euthanize your horse if that is the route you must take. I don’t care how naughty your horse is, no horse deserves to drive for days in a filthy slaughter truck with no food or water amidst sick and dying horses. Sadly, we repeatedly saw the results of the slaughter pipeline. No horse deserves that. Euthanasia, chemical or with a gun(someone who knows what they are doing!) is frequently the kindest option for a horse that is dangerous to handle.
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I don’t see the point of this post. OP, if you really own such a horse, you’re really lucky that up to the date nobody has been injured. If it was mine I wouldm’t be able to sleep because if I fell ill, or had an accident, or had to travel or something, I couldn’t leave anyone else to take care of him. I wouldn’t send him to slaughter, though. I would put him to sleep while I can be there to ensure the vet is not harmed in the process.
I’ve met horses that were difficult for the vet or farrier, horses that are difficult to ride, horses that bite or may kick sometimes, but I’ve never met a horse that had all the bad traits at the same time. Probably if such a horse existed, it was euthanized long before I had the chance to meet him.
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Anyone else find this poster familiar?
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You know that’s what I originally typed and my phone auto corrected it and I didn’t have the energy to argue with spell check 
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I would never send a horse to slaughter but if he is dangerous euthanasia might be your kindest option. I had a couple horses like this when I was child they would attack from a mile away (aside from my mother) I was too young to know much but I was Afraid to go anywhere near that mare. She would lounge at you from a distance and bite you.
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Pretty sure that wasn’t a compliment. You might want to look up the definition.
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Sounds like the OP is not in the US?
If so, the slaughter question is not relevant to what we have here.
In the Europe I grew up in decades ago, a too ill horse was shot in place by slaughter employees and then hauled off to the plant.
Veterinarians only euthanized in extreme situations, when a horse needed to be to stop the suffering.
They did carry a stunt gun just for that and if not an immediate need, would tell you huffily to get the slaughter plant to come shoot the horse, was not their job, that was healing the horse.
If a horse was where it could humanely go to the plant, not sick or crippled where it was not humane to haul it, the horse was taken there and then shot in the main room.
Today in the US, a busy equine veterinary clinic may euthanize several horses a week.
A whole different world that.
By far not the situation we have developed in the US.
What is questionable today is that anyone, anywhere, would be harboring a truly dangerous horse.
In today’s world, we know better, have the foresight not to have around dangerous animals.
The old “an animal so dangerous only I can handle” today sounds more like a fanciful story than reality.
The OP’s story needs a little more information.
We may not all be on the same page when it comes to what is going on there.
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If this person’s not a troll, and the situation is real, spelling and punctuation notwithstanding, then the horse may need one or two cowboys who know how to handle their ropes.
When I first got my gal, I boarded her where there were real cowboys. While there, I saw a situation where a woman had two mares who had gotten so bad, that they would rebel if you tried to make them do anything, or even just walk into their pasture. The owner was at her wit’s end and was considering slaughter.
She asked my BO if he would help, and so he and his cousin took their horses to the woman’s place to catch them. One mare was so bad, she would start the battle if she just saw you carry a halter towards her. It took two cowboys on horseback with ropes to get those mares; they had to be roped down and hog-tied, but the halters went on, and they were driven to the trailer, and to the cowboy’s (my BO’s) home, where boot camp started in earnest. Compound that with the need to deal with scraped up legs from where they fought the ropes, so onto ACE they went.
Both of them were stalled next to my mare, up front where there was a lot of traffic, so I got to watch the progress. It wasn’t always pretty, but when my BO was done with those mares, their owner could saddle them herself, and ride them up the trail.
So you weigh a bit of trouble and discomfort for the horse, which leads to a lifetime of service and hay, against a short trip to sunny Mexico. That was the choice those mares were facing and a good cowboy brought them both to see the light.
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I suspect Bons needs to go back to her bon-bons,
I see no bons (good) in that horse’s future.
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