ridecamp@endurance.net: [endurance] meanies....

[endurance] meanies....

KENNETH PLOUGH (PLOUGH1@ix.netcom.com)
Thu, 25 Apr 1996 17:04:30 -0700

Mystery does the same thing but it is a precursor to a kick. I try
distracting him, pushing him to the side or tugging at his ears (this
doesn't make him headshy...he KNOWS I don't like him doing this and
looks at me out of the corner of his eye as if to say SO?). He is
improving slightly but I can't let up on him at all about it.

All I can do is keep working at it, it helps when walking side to side
if I have one horse or the other a little back where the head of one is
at the shoulder of the other..this seems to give one the perception
he/she is a head of the other and they accept this..

Just guessing...it does help Mystery. He has to be "equal status or
close to it in the herd" to accept being completely side by side.

Just watch out for a possible turn and kick!

Kimberly (&Mystery the Morab)

Not a red tail ribbon wearer yet..we ARE working improvement!