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Re: [RC] [RC] [RC] Horse won't drink water when offered - Shelley Kerr

So funny how we think we're trying to teach our horses to do something, when we're teaching them just the opposite.
What's that other saying?  You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink!  So true. 
A friends horse came over for breeding one year and she told me she wouldn't drink out of buckets.  The first time I put a bucket down she drank out of it.  Maybe she just never noticed she drank out of buckets??  Maybe it was just her buckets.  Didn't think too much of it til now. 
 
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Date: Monday, March 03, 2003 01:06:20 PM
Subject: Re: [RC] [RC] Horse won't drink water when offered
 
There may be more to it than that.  I have seen people teach their horses not to drink.  They will let the horse stand by a water source for a long time if it doesn't drink.  Some horses learn not drinking on the trail means I can stand here...
 
Ed.
 
Ed and Wendy Hauser
1140 37th Street
Hudson, WI 54016
715.386.0465
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Re: [RC] [RC] Horse won't drink water when offered, Ed and Wendy Hauser