Subject: [RC] [RC] Stall rest and things
to do with your horse
Since
Jack has several more months of stall rest, I am looking for something to do
in his stall with him. Any suggestions? I have thought of
teaching him to bow. I am racking what little brains I have
left, Help!
Mary
You should
get hold of the book on clicker training - the lady who wrote the book had
a horse on stall rest and had to doctor the horse's feet daily, so she
worked on clicker training. She was getting tired holding the horse's
feet up, so she taught him to hold them up for her.
Clicker
training is fun for you and fun for the horse - particularly a stall-bound
bored one.
My horse is on her second suspensory pull in two
years <grrr> so we're back on the rehab plan. First time around,
we worked on "moving off my hand" (this really paid off and translated well
into "moving off my leg" when I was able to ride her again).
And
one of the most useful things I ever taught my horses was to sidle up to
[insert mounting block of choice - fence/fender/rock/tree stump/bucket].
To get them to line up perfectly, close to you, with the saddle in
front of you saves tons of time and energy at rides. So maybe that's
something you could play with - teach him to get into position, even though
you're not actually getting on him?
If you research clicker training
on the web, you'll find tons of pages, with lots of good ideas of fun
things to work on.
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