Re: RC: Fw: LD and BC and Oakland comments

["Karen Sullivan" <greymare@jps.net>]

Hi Jeri,
Hope it didn't sound like I was picking on your comment----I took it out of
context and ran with it-to a current gripe of mine regarding cowboy trained
horses-hope that was clear at the begining of my post!
Karen
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Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: RC: Fw: LD and BC and Oakland comments


> That comment got cut in the middle due to poor hand-eye coordination.  The
> comparison was between the old "cowboy 'em--MAKE 'em do it even if it
means
> beating them half to death" breaking school of training and the newer
schools
> of horse training SUCH AS Ray Hunt (and others like him)  The comparison
was
> meant to be that one school of training might consider another training
> method abusive, but that people using such a method would not consider
> themselves abusive, and often turned out some pretty well broke horses.
Had
> nothing to do with true cowboy/ranch raising and training, which also
> probably includes a whole spectrum of methods.  It was in relation to
> statements about Dave, whether or not he was abusive, even though he was a
> nice guy who loved his horse.  jeri
>