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"John Lyons tying methods work great as a training method
with horses that have not learned to give to pressure. There is a world of
difference between them, and a spoiled horse, that ONCE knew what to do, but due
to clueless people learned it could pull back-rear-buck-kick etc, when it
did not want to do something"
25 years ago I learned, accidentally, about spoiled
horses. I had been converted to "natural horsemanship". My son's
mare started avoiding the bit. I spent many hours doing the head drop etc.
with no positive results. One day I lost my temper and hit her
smartly on the nose. She immediately droped her head and opened her
mouth! In that case she:
1. Knew what she was supposed to do.
2. Was not scared.
3. Just didn't want to do it, until things were explained
in a different manner.
The problem is in figuring out why the problem is
happening. Once that is done the solution is sometimes easy.
Ed
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