Re: RC: Spooky Stuff

[Maureen Mathisen <blueoak@snowcrest.net>]

Kit,

One thing I have used to try to get them used to water(when I had NONE)
was letting a hose run over a tarp(after he will  walk on the dry tarp)
as it gives the "illusion" of water.  I have also left plywood pieces in
a stall or where I feed so they "stomp" over them every day--no
porblem!  If traffic bothers him, I have a pen nearest the road, where I
put them and they get used to trucks and trailers rumbling by all
day.(all these are the lazy way of getting them used to things with NO
work on your part...)  They also got used to" scarey wind-blown tarps
"because their hay in the stall is covered with them, and they now LOVE
the sound of rustling tarps because it meand FOOD is coming!

Maureen

Kit wrote:
> 
> I am going to enlist my sister's help and do the bicycle
> thing.  We have walked on plywood on the ground.  We have
> walked over logs in evil mud.  I have used the rope
> EVERYWHERE on his body -- he don't care!  Well, okay, the
> ears are off limits :)  I think it tickled him.  Never
> thought of large backpacks ... hmm ... Oh, and canteens
> were a fun one!  "What the heck is sloshing on my side?!"
> But I got a beautiful circle out of him -- his nose to the
> canteen trying to check it out ... and around and around
> ... I'm also trying to dig up a water obstical for the XP.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --- Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com> wrote:
> > You could add things to walk on.  Tarps.  Wood (think
> > plywood on a hard
> > surface works, but I made a "bridge" that's 4' x 8' out
> > of planks and is
> > 8" off the ground).  Someone stored a roll of very thick
> > wire here -
> > it's rubber covered aluminum cable.  It is now all
> > unwound and the
> > horses walk through that.  Try working with ropes on feet
> > as well - this
> > is great stuff in case you ever get tangled in wire or
> > something on the
> > trail.
> >
> > Have you worked with bicycles?  Also people walking with
> > large backpacks
> > (we were riding on a park trail once and a boy scout
> > troop came by -
> > their packs were over their heads and both horses had to
> > stop short and
> > take a good look at that one!).
> >
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