Telling from experience?

This. Basic stuff that anyone who works with horses should know. Pushing a half ton animal to the side is futile.

well duh, it's like with any muscle. you hit the connection you flex. same with any animal muscle. try it with an unexpecting friend, it's funny how reflexes always work

Are you not paying any attention to the original post, or what? It was clearly an accident. OP's relationship with the horse had nothing to do with it. I get that you're trying to help, but maybe try using some common sense first, next time.

I'm sure OP does know that, but they can hardly help an immediate reaction to pain.

No one "deserves" to have a half-ton animal crush their foot, dude. Get over yourself.

I was thinking the same thing! What kind of shoes was she wearing?

I agree, every horse owner should already be conditioned not to yell. Especially since OP apparently has multiple horses.

Oh, so you don't yell out in pain when a 1200 pound animal steps on your foot? You just look down and think "oh, look at that, I'm being stepped on." Yeah, no. It's not OP's fault she got stepped on, it was an accident and shit like that happens at the barn all the time. No one deserves for their foot to be stepped on and crushed.

not really... it isnt that hard to grit your teeth and push the animal off. it shouldn't be that bad especially if you have the correct footwear.

Oh yeah, cuz a boot is reeaalllyy going to cushion 1200 pounds. Right. Should feel like a pillow on your foot. I'm guessing you've never been stepped on badly enough to break multiple bones in your foot WHILE wearing proper boots. I have. There's no way I would have been able to "grit my teeth and bare it."

Um, that's exactly what you 59. I've had horses of all sizes and weights step on my foot, and even when I was just wearing sneakers, and I just take a breath, put some pressure on the back of the horse's leg, and continue on with my day. No screaming and nonsense needed. And yes, if you own a dangerous animal, let alone multiple, and don't now the basics of how to act in order to maintain a safe environment, you kind of deserve it when you get injured. Yelling and panicking at a skittish thousand pound animal is stupid.

Have you read the FML? She yelled because she got stepped on not she got stepped on because she yelled. Yelling out in extreme pain is a knee jerk reaction. But please, tell everyone what it's like to be such a perfect equestrian and how it is to be so perfectly in control of your natural reflexes.

I think everyone knows that someone is going to react to pain lmao, the point is she should have known what to do to get the horse to move instead of yelling and shoving at it.

In a rush to get out to my lesson, not my barn boots. (So I was in my tall boots.) bad decision on my part.

Okay well I've known this horse for many years. I know how she reacts to certain things. She weighs over 1200 pounds and I'm a petite girl, so this was an agonizing experience. I did not deserve this. I was not standing in the wrong place. She didn't want her girth put on so she stepped on me. She is not skittish AT ALL. I know how to work with horses. I'm not an idiot like you seem to think I am. Thanks.

#22 what kind of retarded logic is that?

I think anyone who has been around horses enough could tell from your FML that that was a very deliberate dick move on the horse's part. What a twat! Sorry for your foot, OP.

Okay seriously?