Awwww....that's so sad! I remember a horse stepping on my foot when I was about 4. But I had enough experiences with horses by that time that it didn't scare me off of them. Other than that, I never had any really bad experiences with the animals. My brother took the brunt because my dad was determined to make him a big strong ranch man, and he put him situations that were probably not appropriate. Like...he had this horse that he bought, knowing it was not a very friendly horse. He was ok for my dad to ride, but even my mom didn't particularly like this horse. My dad wanted to break him of the bad habits, so he put my brother on him, and he bucked him right off into a barbed wire fence. And this was AFTER my brother had been bucked off his horse when it spooked and he landed flat on his back...knocked the wind out of him and it took him a few hours before he was back to breathing normally, so he was already a little skittish around horses. (not the same day. Just my brother was a bit afraid after that, but dad insisted he HAD to get back on a horse, and he picked a horse that hated kids and didn't really like people in general) And when he was 3, he sat in an ant pile and had bites ALL over that made him sick. No wonder my brother had no desire to take over the ranch...