Re: RC: Re: Re: Spooking and other problems you have asked me about....

[DVeritas@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/21/00 7:58:27 AM Mountain Daylight Time, 
bolinger@bigsky.net writes:

<< Some people need that time in the round corral/arena in order
 to build THEIR confidence...seems to me a large amount of what Parrelli does
 is aimed at building the humans' confidence...hours and hours of asking the
 horse to do different things helps the person to figure out how a horse
 reacts to various stimuli...there are allot of people out there who have an
 extremely difficult time interacting with horses because of a deep seated
 fear...the success of the natural horsemanship techniques has as much to do
 with gaining the owners confidence as it does the horses'.
  >>

    THAT aspect is of extreme importance, as is getting out on the trail and 
applying the newfound understandings.

   Frank.