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RE: [RC] [RC] Yearling mouthiness - Laurie Durgin

Now Jim, that usually works--but not with Scout. He looovvves me to rub his mouth, even roughly, I think it goes back to nursing his ma.....She was around till lhe was 18 months old. He just turned 4, and is just an Oral horse I think. He learned to open gates from Honey, and to play with sticks and buckets from Rascal, eat trees from Champ, and he and EEyore the donkey, bite each others necks. In his leading lessons , he will occasionally grab the butt of my driving whip, I use for the "go forward" cue, and he just holds it.>sigh< I have to wiggle it out of his mouth, actually I put the finger in the mouth trick,and he will open up. He also likes to "hold" part of the extra lead line if I let it hang down too far, while I am 'teaching him" to lead. I think he is amusing himself at my expense. Nothing nasty, not biting, just likes to use his mouth as fingers. Gave him an extra tub to play with with a crdboard box in it the other day. He and Rascal played with it all day, then he tore the box apart and put it, in pieces, in his stall for 'safekeeping'.

From: "Jim Holland" <lanconn@xxxxxxx>
To: "'Jonni'" <jonnij@xxxxxxxx>, "'Ridecamp'" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [RC]   Yearling mouthiness
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 18:29:18 -0400

When he comes over and starts "noodling" on you, grab his head, "baby talk"
him softly and rub his head, especially his nose, all over fairly roughly
till he backs off on his own. If he comes back, repeat. He'll get the
message pretty soon! :)

If he actually bites, the old John Lyons procedure has ALWAYS fixed that for
me on the first try. Instantly hit him for 3 seconds as hard as you can with
whatever you have in your hand...and be MAD! You're gonna rip his hide off
and feed him to the crows! After 3 seconds, go back to whatever you were
doing as though nothing had happened. Two rules: Don't hit him above the
withers and don't hit him with anything sharp. (Feed buckets work really
well)


Jim, Sun of Dimanche, and Mahada Magic (The ultimate mouthy little guy who
got that message on his first day here)



-----Original Message-----
From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jonni
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 4:11 PM
To: Ridecamp
Subject: [RC] Yearling mouthiness

>>>and what else can I do to get him to keep his mouth to himself? <<<

Whack him. <gasp!>  If he were to bite another horse, they would "bite
back". Let him know this is NOT acceptable behavior. He'll get bored with
the bit soon enough, and go back to placing his mouth elsewhere...probably
on you.

Jonni
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