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Re: [RC] [RC] re: You should (was agressive kicker) - Dawn Carrie<Both horses and children can quickly learn that discipline ends in public
view. It is behavior that must be discouraged.>
Likewise, they can also learn that they can get away with things in the P&R box, because riders don't want to discipline them and risk raising the HR. My horse Bear still has a bad habit of occasionally fussing, figiting about, and tossing his head when he doesn't want to stand still, usually early in a ride. After I get after him (usually a verbal scolding will do, sometimes it takes a swat on the neck), he'll stand nicely. But after getting away with a couple of mild incidents of this in the P&R box, he figured that was a "free" zone. <G> Next time he tried it, I gave him a verbal warning, he kept it up, and I smacked him. The P&R person said, "don't so that, you'll raise his pulse." My answer was, "I don't care, he needs to behave." He's behaved in the P&R box since then. <EG>
Dawn Carrie, Texas
and Bear (better listen to mom, she means what she says!)
On 12/26/07, Sisu West Ranch <ranch@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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