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Being new to horses (only hung out with my first
one back in late 98, and didn't get started till spring 99 when my wife (then
girlfriend) went to some event for a week (Pan Am in Canada?, She's asleep so I
can't ask her) and I got stuck grooming and feeding for a week) I have been
doing a lot of reading to "catch up" in my knowledge
deficiency.
Everyone agrees that it's important your
horse sees you as "boss" or "alpha" or "leader" or whatever (so long it's
#1). This seems to be across the board whether it's an old book, or a
recent book.
My question is: How did you establish this
with your horse? What has worked? Do you use the 7 games of Pat
Parelli? Do you use a roundpen and run the horse around for a long
time? Do you use "passive leadership" as championed by Mark Rashid?
Do you try to do it by presenting a "good feel" to the horse like Bill Dorrance
and Leslie Desmond write about? Or do you use some
combination or change as needed depending on the horse?
How did you become your horses "#1"?
Charles
PS: Personally, I found a lot of grooming
worked for my mare Keepers, but then she's vain. Jon on the other
hand isn't vain and that hasn't worked for him.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 5:49
PM
Subject: Re: [RC] Making Dog Food!
Karen, I can tell you what Pat would say about this situation: You'e
right this is not a scared horse. This is a respect issue. A horse
that has learned a behavior and simply refuses to do it is challenging your
leadership. They are hard wired to do this constantly. Its your
job to be a good leader, EVERY DAY. Simply.
Sullivan <greymare@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Kathy,
You will notice several omissions from that
article. Parelli does NOT adress the horse that once HAD been
trained to tie, but now uses it to get out of situations it plain does not
want to do ( having mouth touched, etc). And, at the end of the
article, he makes no mention that this horse, with all this
training....should be trained to be tied to a solid object!! I am not
talking about a truly panicked horse, but a spoiled one.
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