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Re: [RC] Rearing - Barbara McCraryOver 40 years ago, when we bought our eldest daughter her first horse, the horse quickly pulled the trick of not wanting to leave the yard and our other horse. He started rearing. Fortunately, our daughter was not thrown nor hurt. Our farrier at the time rode him for us, tried to get him out of the yard and the horse reared. The man bopped the horse on the head with his fist. After repeating this a couple of times, the horse went down the road, as he should. Our daughter did the same thing a few more times and the horse finally got the message. He tried it with me, too, and I bopped him on the head. End of rearing. He finally got the word and stopped this habit all together. I'm sure there must be less punishing methods of stopping a horse from rearing, but Bruce's method comes fairly close to ours, only kinder. It's a frightening habit.Barbara ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Weary DC" <bweary@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Ridecamp (E-mail)" <Ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 9:54 AM Subject: [RC] Rearing I learned something valuable here on RC a few years ago, and I don't remember who it was that mentioned it. When a horse rears dangerously, you can mash down on their withers, neck or head with your hand and they will reflexly tuck their head to get away from the pressure, thus bringing their front feet back to the ground. It really works, as I have done it several times. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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