Re: RC: Re: Re: The Horse/Cow Thing

[owens <owensall@sierranet.net>]

Dear Lynne;
Like you, I welcome all big, bad, bugaboos that can help train my horses
to not be afraid of new things.  When I moved here I noticed, with
delight, that the two next-door neighbors had large tractor equipment,
with a trail going in-between it all.  I always start my training rides
going through this property.  My horses coudn't care less about any
piece of large machinery.
Katee
> 
> >Hah! I've got you all.  Check out water buffalo and CAMELS.  Those will
> >scare the living daylights out of anything but a farm bred Arab....and
> >that's mostly because they get a chance to see them.
> >
> >Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
> >Cairo, Egypt
> >gabbani@starnet.com.eg
> 
> Now that hikers are starting to use llamas for packing in our area of
> National Forest I jumped at the chance to get a couple llamas from friends
> who were moving back East and looking for good homes for their extra
> animals.  It took a week or two before the horses stopped acting like
> they'd encountered aliens,  but now they even chase the llamas away from
> their hay rations and tolerate the llamas coming up and sniffing them all
> over.  They now might be startled if they suddenly encounter a llama on the
> trail, but I don't expect they'll be totally stupid about it.
> 
> Lynn Kinsky (Santa Ynez, CA)
> http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky
> 
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