I’m 14 years of age, and my life was just perfect last July before the worst happened… I have a lovely home with a good 7 acres of land, which 5 acres we rent out, but i have a nice garden with 3 big 10f by 10ft run for my 2 rabbits and 2 guinea pigs also i have 4 lovely dogs, A tanned German Shepard and a white German Shepard and Grey (Blue) border collie and a chihuahua, i have 3 lovely friendly hamsters, a Ginger cat which has a bad back(but she better now) and one lovely 16.2 hands Dun and White Spotted Draft horse called dazzle. I look tiny on him 
And the best thing my little white fluffy Shetland i rode her everyday when i was younger but when i got to 6 i got dazzle but we still kept her. I could ride my dazzle everywhere i would ride him down the lane every day to see the horses on the other fields, I would ride her down the lanes with my chihuahua on my lap and as i got to the main rode i would put my chihuahua called Tiny on the floor on a stretchy lead and ride down the main rode with tiny next to me on the lead, dazzle was not scare of anything we went down lanes, main rodes, past dogs, past people and even past horses riding and he didn’t blink a eyelid. He was basically a perfect pony because he placed 1st in 24 shows, 2nd in 26 shows, 3rd in 10 shows and best in show 6 times also i won the horse of the year for his looks. But then the people we rented our land to, was shooting tins and we didn’t mind because it was fenced of but he missed the tin and shot my dazzle, i had just bathed, groomed and tacked him up i tied him to the fence while i went to get my dog and when i came out he was on the floor and ran over and see him i could tell something had happened, he was not just lying down because there was blood everywhere, he was alive and still breathing i ran to my mum and told her we payed a lot of money and got him back to health but now he is scared of bangs, traffic, dogs and runs of bucking when i go towards him with his tack. i have been to my local stable and they said he is scared of tack because i had just tacked him up, scared of bangs because the gun and traffic because they are busy but they can’t understand why he hates the dog? So i cant ride him, he is to hard for me to handle as he is a big horse and im small. I do have a new welsh section c but she is 14 hh and is not the same as dazzle, i would like to know how i could teach him to be the same old dazzle, which likes dogs, traffic, TACK and basically me… Please note im only 14 and i have LOADS of confidence around horses but nothing too hard please and also if there is any good websites and also note that the reason i want to be able to ride him again because since i was 6 and i was 13 then, i had rode him every day since… down lanes, main roads with my dog and i have tacked a horse for like all my life. PLEASE HELP! I MISS HIM AND WANT HIM BACK.
also im not pushing him because my vet told me to teach him again plus if you cant be bothered to read it then please just read this my horse was shot he is alive but basically scared of everything
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