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Kathy,
You will notice several omissions from that
article. Parelli does NOT adress the horse that once HAD been
trained to tie, but now uses it to get out of situations it plain does not want
to do ( having mouth touched, etc). And, at the end of the article, he
makes no mention that this horse, with all this training....should be trained to
be tied to a solid object!! I am not talking about a truly panicked horse,
but a spoiled one.
As an example...I trained my baby to tie,
using methods similiar to Lyons. In a very gentle, and progressive
way/
She was handled a lot, and went a lot of places,
also. There came a day, however, when she decided she did not want to
tie. Period. Pull back, etc. One session with a be-nice-halter
(which, by the way, is designed FOR THIS, and releases pressure when they come
forward), was all it took to convince her that being tied meant being
tied. No matter what the other horses were doing, etc.
Even with the young horses....no matter how
"natural", ,kind, progressive, savvy or whatever you want to call a gentle
approach....there WILL be a point there is something they DON'T want to
do. You WILL have to make them do it!!
Or they start learing bad habits. Will they
pull back, buck, rear? Hopefully, if you have instilled compliance,
through
repitition and reward......the obeidience will come
with nobody getting hurt.
Karen
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Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 1:17
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Subject: [RC] Making Dog Food!
Personally, I do not believe, no
matter what anyone says, that a horse would go to the lengths of
comitting suicide because it's 'spoiled' or because it's so conniving that it
wants to annoy it's owner.
To think that a horse is THAT manipulative
seems to me to be anthropomorphic to the nth degree. My understanding of
horses is that they are hard wired to be scared to death. Period.
By
tieing them and letting them thrash it out, it seems to me that you're just
aiding and abetting them to that end. Literally scaring them to
death. Sure the horse may come through it and live to understand that
it's 'ok' to be tied. But why take that kind of risk?? What on
earth is the point except to save time?
The link below is to The horse.com
and offers some explanations and solutions for the horse that won't tie.
I
don't presume to be a pet psychic so I will never assume to KNOW beyond a
shadow of a doubt that my horse is trying to pull a fast one on me, no matter
what she does.
I will always allow whatever time it takes to approach any
problems as safely as possible for all concerned. I hope for our horse's
sakes as well as for our own that most of us horse owners feel the same
way.
Cheers,
Kathy
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