[RC] training horses to calm down - Laura Hayes
Jim, your post was very good. You are right, you can teach a horse to calm
down - MOST horses. You know my Music - he will be 15 this year. You could
load him in the back of your pickup truck, or maybe in the back seat. He
would stand and let you blow out his feet with your compressor - you most
likely could weld bars on his shoes- while they were on!!<g> He would stand
tied to anything for any length of time. You could throw bags of cans at him
and he wouldn't miss a bite of hay. At one ride he had just done his CRI
trot out and the vet was just putting the stethescope on him to take the
second heart rate, and a parade of three wheelers came roaring into the
clearing and right through the vet check. His HR was 4 beats lower than the
initial.
BUT, I'll be cantering along at mile 48, in the top five of a tough ride,
having worked him pretty hard for several hours in a row, and come around a
corner with a orange plastic snow fence well off to one side of the trail
(just like he sees along the trail at home at times) and have him stop dead.
He did it in Canada last spring. He acted like that snow fence was going to
eat him. Or it maybe a rock he takes a disliking to, or a sign just like
some he had just seen. I'll tell you, he is not spoiled- he gets his fanny
paddled at times for being so silly - but it has never ended in all these
miles - so go figure. One thing I will never do is put him in an electric
fence and think that if horses ran through and that fence hit him, that he
would not freak out and cause a disaster.
Laura Hayes
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