Assertions and other assertions about spooking.

[Marv Walker <Marv@MarvWalker.com>]

> Before I respond to your post, let's put this discussion into context.
> 
> It started with your assertion (correct me if I'm wrong) that you could
> "spookproof" a horse via your RP technique in half an hour?  Am I right so
> far?
> 
> My assertion is not that you can't.  My assertion is that :
> 
> 1.  This will not work with all horses; and
> 2.  The horse will not remain spook-proof.

As long as it's a discussion...

Since it started with the assertion let's confine ourselves 
to that.

I know you don't like "generalizations" but the fact remains 
they are a part of everyone's life including yours. No horse 
is spook-"proof".  Horse people use that term to denote a 
tendency to spook that they can live with.

I say, and am willing to demonstrate at any time the risk of 
the demonstration is not one sided, that *I* can make a horse 
DRAMATICALLY less spook-prone, if not completely "spook-proof" 
(i.e very difficult to create an unacceptable level of anxiety 
in) in a half hour using the technique known as Marv Walker's 
bonder.  Extend the time I work with the horse to an hour I can 
exponentially produce even greater results.

Your assertion is that it will not work with all horses.  I really 
can't address whether it will work with all horses or not because 
I haven't worked all horses yet.  I am however, working on it.  So 
far, I have not found a horse it hasn't worked on and I have worked
quite a few horses.

As far as whether or not the horse will never spook again goes, I 
can't say that either because after all horses are horses and if the 
circumstances are right, pretty much anything can happen.

The procedure does NOT resolve spooking issues, it resolves fear & 
confidence issues.  In resolving the fear & confidence issues, it 
affects those things that are fear & confidence based.  THAT is how
the procedure resolves spooking.  The procedure resolves spooking
but it is not for the purpose of resolving spooking.  It is a 
connection procedure.

Once this connection is established AND the connection is maintained 
(all this is in far more depth than emails allow on my web site
http://MarvWalker.com/horse.htm ) the horse will be so less spooky 
that the owner will consider it "spook-proof".  It will also be far 
more compliant, willing, patient, you name it.  *IF* it shows signs 
of reverting (some do, some don't) it only takes a few moments to 
re-establish the connection.

Just like it works initially, it will also work to reconnect should
something happen to affect the connection.

I'm not sure how much of my available material you've read beyond 
the points in my emails that fly in the face of your beliefs, but 
the fact that you consider them any kind of s*** has no bearing on 
whether or not they work.  You say they don't from a position of 
cursory examination and your experiences.  I say they do because 
of my experiences and the experiences of others.  So far, not one 
has contacted me and said, "Marv, he's spooking as bad as ever 
again."  They have contacted me with glowing reports.

I have set up it so they do not have to fail.  Bottom line, if they 
duplicate the actions I set forth those, actions WILL produce
positive results.  The people who attend my events come from a wide
range of horse experience.  I have had people from barely know what 
a horse looks like to long time cowboys and Prix St. George riders.  
When they leave my events they are confident they can perform the 
procedure and that it will work on any horse not mentally ill or 
hormonally imbalanced.

And that isn't even taking physical causes into effect.  Spooking 
is often caused by pain.  If, for instance, you have a horse with 
a cervical subluxation or two, or dental problems or any of a number 
of discomforts, that horse may exhibit adverse reactions to the 
unexpected.  Remove the discomfort, you remove the spook.

The recipe works.  Period.  Get the ingredients together anywhere 
in NA and I'll come ready to cook.  If the dish turns out as I say, 
pay my fee.  If it doesn't, no charge, I'll pay my own costs and 
stand there until the laughter dies away and leave you (general "you"
here) with a signed statement saying you sure showed me.

All the analyzing, qualifying and rationalizing to the contrary as
to why it "shouldn't" work doesn't change the fact it does work. If 
someone can walk, chew gum and tie their own shoes I can take-it-to-
the-bank talk them through it faster and easier than any other 
"despooking"/"sacking"/"desensitizing" technique I've ever heard of 
or seen in the last half-century.

Marv "Was 'Electric Shorts Cause Fires' Now 'Man Held In Downtown 
Fire'"" Walker
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