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[RC] re:teaching a horse to tie - Fay Kelley

Title: [RC] re:teaching a horse to tie
LEAHCHIRO@xxxxxxx wrote:
6 years ago, a woman I boarded with a woman who bought a TB that had many behavioral problems, including pulling back when tied. After many failed sessions with various local trainers, she sent the horse to a QH training facility east of Atlanta. This place had a couple of mules that were used to "train" horses. The TB was tied to one of these special mules, and after a few days the mule would be dragging the horse around at will...sometimes the horse would be dragged lying flat out on the ground. After a couple of weeks being tied to the mule, the TB became very docile(obviously!!). The owner of the horse was OK with this method and took the horse back for "Tune-up" sessions every 6 months or so. By the way, I did not approve of this method. 

There are a lot of ways to break a horse's spirit and teach it to never think for itself ....  this makes me ill both in my stomach and in my heart.


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Cheers,  Fay

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Fay S. Kelley    Cell  928.600.1733

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   ~ Lao Tzu ~

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