RC: Fwd: RC: Stallion behavior

[Nancy DuPont <Htrails@Earthlink.net>]

This was well said and I agree totally.  Too bad so many people are 
addicted to the John Lyons seminars and methods.  He charges $18,000 for 
his full course. Hmmmmm.


At 11:01 AM 1/17/00 -0500, SandyDSA@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 1/16/00 9:48:43 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>fasterhorses@gilanet.com writes:
>
><< Call me an ass, call me a weenie for not believeing in using pain as an
>  educational method for any being, but don't call me anything other than one
>  who cares.  Lif >>
>I am with you, Lif. We would never dream of treating our horses with such
>disrespect and humiliation, not to mention the mental anguish. In 23 years,
>we have never had to raise a whip to a horse for compliance. Funny, too, a
>lot of people think "John Lyons = humane, gentle, "NATURAL" horsemanship".
>Hmmm. While there are a number of good things about it - we have been doing
>"natural Horse manship for 23 years - now it has a name, a book, etc. - it is
>not inherently good or true just because he said it or espouses it.
>s