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Do you
have kids? It's sort of the same idea. I just assume that whatever I want is
what will be done...because I'm the mom. My kids, my dogs and my horses
all get treated the same way. They are all well-behaved. I don't have to hit
them, just look at them. Maybe I was born with boss mare ears...I dunno. But
part of it is an attitude, I think. Also, I'm too old to go around fighting over
things. I pick my horses to get along with me and each
other.
Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
Cairo,
Egypt
maryanne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.ratbusters.net
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.
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