Re: unwilling trot out

[Tara Wheeler <harpy@io.com>]

I'm afraid I used a crop.

My mare wouldn't trot right out, but one swat with a crop showed her I was
serious about her moving *right now*.

She hasn't needed another swat.  Just needed to get the communication
straigtened out.

Now I lift my reins, shift my weight forward, give a little squeeze and
cluck and we're off.

As long as I'm not giving her the stick like a jockey, I don't see the harm
in an occasional tap.  We're talking about a 1000 pound animal who slamms
into other 1000 pound animals for fun.

I was always taught that as long as you swatted a horse above the knees and
behind the head, you wouldn't be doing serious harm.

Tara Wheeler
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"She is the virgin harlot. She is vulgar, witty, knowlegable to a depth
that terrifies, cruel when she is most kind, unthinking while she thinks,
and when she seeks to build, she is as destructive as the corriolis storm."
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