Re: Re: uh-oh, Insulted Farrier

["Tracey" <tracey@tbt.co.za>]

But isn't it irritating when the horse has just stood on your toe when he
barged into you because he was being a brat, and you've wasted those
valuable three seconds leaping around on one foot, telling him his parents
were never married, while he gazes at you in disbelief, and you then can't
hit him, even though you REALLY REALLY want to, so you have to kick the
stall instead, to vent your spleen.  It's the only time I wish horses had
longer memories.


Tracey.
-----Original Message-----
From: CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com <CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com>
To: mmieske@netonecom.net <mmieske@netonecom.net>; michrowe@frontier.net
<michrowe@frontier.net>; ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 3:17 AM
Subject: RC: Re: uh-oh, Insulted Farrier


>In a message dated 7/18/00 5:18:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>mmieske@netonecom.net writes:
>
><< Excellent point about WHEN to discipline.  I can't believe how many
people
> will object to Nelson smacking their horse AT THE EXACT MOMENT the bad
> behavior has occurred but then ask him to step aside while they proceed to
> inflict THEIR version of jerking around and smacking the horse themselves!
> The horse learns nothing. >>
>
>Amen to that!  Punishment must be immediate, appropriate, and ONLY ONCE, or
>it makes no impression at all in terms of the misbehavior--merely
reinforces
>in the horse's mind that the inflicter is a jerk!
>
>Heidi
>
>
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