Re: RC: Re: Re: Re: head carriage and split reins

[Bette Lamore <woa@stormnet.com>]

Hey Anna and Keith
Can't we give our feedback a little nicer here? If someone is asking a
question in order to get help, at least they know that they know not, as
opposed to those who know not and know not that they know not. Get my
gist? Perhaps you never intended your reply negatively; please let's
just look at our posts as "is this something I'd like to have written
back to me?"
Bette
Bette Lamore
Whispering Oaks Arabians, Home of TLA Halynov
http://www.stormnet.com/~woa
I've learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper, the closer it
gets to the end, the faster it goes. Smell the roses!


Keith and Anna wrote:
> 
> > A long term solution involves a lot of training......training the horse to
> > give to the bit and to drop its head on cue. The reason the horse flings
> its
> > head up and hits us on the lip is because they're trying to escape the
> > discomfort of us pulling on the bit. Horses don't like the continuous
> > pressure of being held even if there isn't pain involved, and usually pain
> > is a factor as well. So it boils down to the question: do we want to take
> > the time to train our horses to respond to the cues or do we want to use
> > head restraints and muscle 'em? Both ways work. Seems to me it's just a
> > matter of choice.
> 
>  Yep training is the key word here, but if you are not spending your time
> training the horse, then what business do you have taking that horse to an
> endurance ridd in the first place? that type of training should be some of
> the first things a horse learns, so if that horse is ready for an endurance
> ride then you didnt do your training right.
> 
> Anna and Keith and all our critters in New Mexico
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> 
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> of the species domesticated.  The sorrows of horse-flesh are the fruits of
> civilization." W.E. Webb(1872)
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