Agan vK was born in the Province Luxembourg in Belgium

As a foal he was absolutely cute (as are most foals of course) but despite that I thought he was sweet (and the baby of the herd) when I first saw him I had no idea that I would totally fall for him a year later.

Right now, December 2009, we belong together for six and a half years.

In those years our friendship has grown and still is developing.

I would never have dreamed of my dream coming true but it did!

I have now a horsy friend who sees me as his best buddy, who whinnies at me when he sees me, who enjoys being with me and will ignore the entire herd of horses he’s in just for the pleasure of being in my company.

Of course he “disagrees” with me too now and then and makes that very clear but we always have managed to solve our ‘problems’ and to remain best friends. Learning Non-Verbal Communication has helped me a lot to solve our problems peacefully and effectively.

Our greatest problem in all those years was caused by an injury of Agan’s hindquarters, he had broken something while being in the meadow with the herd. As a result of the months of solitary confinement to his stable at the age of 2 he was traumatized and frustrated.

The result was an Agan who was biting everyone but me, who was challenging everyone and winning from them with exception from me and I had to work very hard to not let him win from me too and experienced some frightening moments myself too.

To mentally cure him I send him off for half a year to the herd of young stallions at his breeder’s farm, so back to his birth grounds. This did him tremendously good. After half a year he was back to being calm and easy to handle.

For the safety of other people though (to prevent his old behavior from coming back) I decided to have him gelded.

His training by the non-verbal communication method, which followed a few months later, erased the last traces of the behavioral problems caused by the accident.

Next came our search for a fitting saddle, this took us months! Every saddle that was supposed to fit him was disapproved by Agan who showed his disapproval very clearly, shaking his head when putting the new saddle on, biting towards the saddle, shaking his entire body when starting to walk or trot with it, doing the same thing when you sat on it. He made me desperate sometimes because there he was all trained and there I was not daring to injure his back by riding in a saddle that he had disapproved (he must have had very good reasons to do so). So basically the next half year we haven’t been riding much, only when we tried out a new saddle.

But now we finally have found the saddle that was approved by Agan as well!

The first time I put it on, he was just looking at what I was doing with interest.

Walking him around was like walking him around without saddle and when finally I tried to sit on him, he had his ears up and started to walk towards the lanes as if he said: “Finally, now we can do something!!”

So Agan is now the proud owner of a treeless Startrekk Comfort saddle.

At the first March 2007 he moved to his present stable at Stal de Braamhof.

He has the luxury of a huge stable box, lots of hay, a big paddock all for himself, a big round pen (he loves it!) and soon (if it ever gets dry) big meadows to run in together with all his new friends. In November 2009 he moved from his big stable to a walk/in/walk/out stable with paddock at the same location. He clearly loves the freedom and the constant company of his neighbours in similar stables he has and he has a lot of entertainment there too with the riding ring right in front of him.