I
guess I was addressing the horse that spooks cause he is sincerely
"afraid"
of stuff. Not the "playful" spooking, but the serious "I think I
saw
something in the woods" spooking. Goofing around spooking is a
completely
different matter altogether. I would not talk nice to a horse
doing
that.
Dog training and horse training are two separate things
altogether. Some
things are similiar but one is a predator, one is prey.
They act different
cause they are different. Dogs are driven by food/and/or
love stimulus.
Horses are driven by safety and comfort stimulus. Adult herd
horses
discipline naughty babies by banishing them from herd (take away
safety of
herd). Dog herd members discipline by
biting/pain/submission.
I did not mean to flame you by that slapping
thing, just wanted to point out
that a scared, spooking horse usually does
not like to be slapped and will
generally be happier being calmed down
instead of slapped.
I am here on ridecamp as a newbie, like yourself,
to learn and grow.
Opinions differ as much as riders differ. All my
theories of herd/training
come from John Lyons, Parelli, Monty Roberts,
Mark Rashid (love him). They
have some very good new methods about training
horses that have to do with
herd/prey behavior which is quite different
than dog/predator behavior. The
methods work amazingly great and have to do
with getting inside the head of
your horse and why they do stuff. They are
quite different than dog training
books. They most certainly will change
the way in which riders train/treat
their horses.
Karla
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