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RE: [RC] Trail Manners - Jim HollandHmmmm...I think the poster mentioned the horse "splashing" her with water. It's a pretty animated horse that can "splash you" by using his head. Obviously, she meant pawing. Training not to "paw" should be done BEFORE you attend a ride. If I know my horse is going to do that at a ride, I will wait until everyone else leaves before I allow my horse to enter the creek and drink. Common courtesy. The entire TRAINING procedure that works well for every horse I have owned is a rap on the pawing foot as low down as I can reach as soon as he picks up a foot to paw and a verbal rebuke...try to anticipate. This will result in the horse raising his head. I immediately ask for the horse to drop his head until his nose is just above the water. Repeat as necessary. If he chooses not to drink in a reasonable time, I leave. At the next opportunity, I repeat the sequence above. Soon enough he will get thirsty enough to drink WITHOUT pawing. This problem is also related to "respect" issues. You don't "fix" problems like this AT the ride. Jim, Sun of Dimanche+, and Mahada Magic Richard T. "Jim" Holland Three Creeks Farm 175 Hells Hollow Drive Blue Ridge, Ga 30513 (706) 258-2830 www.threecreeksarabians.com Callsign KI4BEN -----Original Message----- From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Diane Trefethen Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 2:50 PM To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [RC] Trail Manners First.. there are two kinds of splashing. Splashing with head as in playing with the water and pawing, which is usually called... pawing. "Splashing" doesn't muddy up anything, "pawing" does. If I had a horse that didn't drink well away from the barn and out on a conditioning ride we stopped at some water where my horse put its head down and started splashing, smacking it with a crop certainly sounds like the right approach to encourage her to drink.... not. Even on a Endurance ride, that "THWACK!!" would hardly be welcomed by riders of the other horses at a drinking spot. Even the horses that didn't actually spook would still not want to get back near that water where they thought they might get smacked with a crop. Now about the splashing.. Ahem..it is considered bad manners to allow your horse to splash in water sources. It muddies up the creeks... I suggest you take along a small riding crop and vigorously discourage your horse from splashing in the drinking water. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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