In a message dated 1/15/2005 3:08:33 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,
katswig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
You are
not a horse, and your horse doesn't think you are a horse, and it never
will. :)
I agree with you Kat (hope THAT doesn't affix anything negative
to the veracity of your statement :^)).
INFLUENCING a horse certainly doesn't make a horse
believe you're a horse.
Even "bad weather" comin' "influences" a horse.
So, if folks find a way (that works for them) which
"influences" a horse to do what it is that person wants them to do, and if it
makes them feel good to call themselves a "herd leader," well, I guess, that's
good for them.
But, IMO, they're not...no more than an approaching
storm, or knee deep grass....."horse influencer"...yeah.
Cause even the so-called herd leaders are only those who exert
the most "influence" in the herd...if leadership is based on influence, IMO,
it's what happens because of that influence that truly defines the type of
(so-called) leadership.
And, if what happens because of the influence we
exert on the horse is what WE want to happen, I guess we call ourselves,
"communicators", "trainers", and NOW, EVEN "horses".
I can see the book already, "Bad Weather Comin' Is
a Horse."
