Jim writes:
> Thing about horses is, that if you never get them
> excited, you can never teach them to calm down...
> If you go through the "get excited" "calm down"
> sequence enough, the level of excitement becomes
> less and less and the horse learns that "Hey, if I
> say it's OK, then don't worry about it...trust me".
> Basic training concept. Works for me.
Jim? Can you explain, step-by-step, how you would go about
winding the horse up and then teaching it to calm down?
Jennifer:
> You want to teach your horse primarily to yield to
> pressure not lean into it.
And this is another interesting one. I've got a horse
who is light as a feather when it comes to yielding to
pressure. She'll yield very cheerfully at the slightest
pressure on the lead rope... ..,until she doesn't yield.
Occasionally she'll decide to pull back when tied -
not often, but enough times that I carefully consider
any tying spot before tying her, to make sure she won't
get loose/uproot the thing she's tied to.
How to teach her not to do this? If she yields beautifully
under some circumstances, but not others?
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Lucy Chaplin Trumbull
elsie AT foothill DOT net
Repotted english person in Sierra Foothills, California
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