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Angie's totally right about this one.  Any time I can get someone to 
ride one of my older seen-it-all, done-it-all horses, the issues 
vanish. There are too many farm and wild desert dogs for a dog to work 
for me, but an older horse to go past the man-eating mud puddle or 
something makes it so much easier.  That's not to say that the first 
time they encounter the puddle by themselves they are cool with 
it....wish it were that easy....but they do relax about things in the 
trail.

Maryanne
Cairo, Egypt

On Wednesday, Jul 16, 2003, at 06:30 Africa/Cairo, rides2far@xxxxxxxx 
wrote:

> She gets anxious if she
> > sees something very far away... Really seems to trouble her more
> > than> anything close up. She stops in her tracks, goes real high
> headed, > eyes> get huge.
>
> Sounds like you're riding alone. If so, she's taking full 
> responsibility
> for not getting eaten and it's probably the first time she's been in 
> that
> situation. I prefer to ride new ones with an older bored horse but
> sometimes that's not possible. I had a fairly young Arab that was like
> that. Took forever to get past his first couch tossed out on side of 
> the
> road. :-P I found that letting my dog go with me fixed it. I'm not big 
> on
> riding with dogs, but the dog would go along in front and I guess the
> horse figured if the dog wasn't alarmed it must not be important...or
> maybe that whatever it was would eat the dog first. He wasn't even
> particularly fond of the dog, but the "follow the leader" thing clicked
> in and off we'd go with no real fears.
>
> Angie
>
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