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This is a great tip.  Thanks.

Here is another -- make sure you don't mix up your signals and use one  
signal for two different things - even if one wasn't supposed to be  
any signal at all.

There have been a few times when I've had trouble with Caisson doing  
something.  Only afterwards did I realize ... oh - wait, I was mixing  
up signals on him.

The last time this happened was when I was just asking him to walk /  
slow trot around me.  I was just using his halter and lead ( 10ft +  
lead line ).  Every time I would try to adjust the length of the rope,  
he would stop and face me.  Only afterwards did I realize I was  
adjusting it by "bouncing" the rope (so I only used one hand - tossed  
it up a little and caught it farther along its length), rather than  
smoothing sliding it using two hands....  and bouncing the rope when I  
lead him (hand going up and down - not a jerk, but just bumping the  
rope)  is the signal I use when he is getting too far in front of me,  
and he needs to wait...


On Dec 29, 2008, at 9:53 PM, Diane Trefethen wrote:

> * Remember that homo sapiens really can think better than equus  
> caballus.  Therefore, if part way through a session you realize that  
> YOU failed to properly prepare your horse for what you are now  
> asking... change the lesson.  Ask for something different.  When  
> your horse complies with the new request and is rewarded with your  
> voice and touch, HE won't know that you originally wanted something  
> else.

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