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Post by horseguy on May 12, 2016 16:37:00 GMT
The trainer still gets the stupidity award for posting anything like he did in this world of do-gooders.
Teaching a young horse to get used to being sprayed with water is one of the easiest things there is to do. I get a long lead rope, spray the horse and get him going in a circle around me. (You need a good heavy hose that a horse can step poon for this) The point is to get the horse into flight not fight. As long as the horse is "fleeing" the water by moving forward in the circle, he feels he is responding and protecting himself. That's all you need. After that the horse will eventually get bored by the water splashing on him. I have done this probably near a thousand times with young horses and only a few required letting the rope out far enough so the horse could reach me with a kick. Once the "flee" they don't "fight".
If the guy does not know this technique or one like it, I don't think he should be calling himself a horse trainer.
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Post by jimmy on May 12, 2016 17:16:24 GMT
The trainer still gets the stupidity award for posting anything like he did in this world of do-gooders. Teaching a young horse to get used to being sprayed with water is one of the easiest things there is to do. I get a long lead rope, spray the horse and get him going in a circle around me. (You need a good heavy hose that a horse can step poon for this) The point is to get the horse into flight not fight. As long as the horse is "fleeing" the water by moving forward in the circle, he feels he is responding and protecting himself. That's all you need. After that the horse will eventually get bored by the water splashing on him. I have done this probably near a thousand times with young horses and only a few required letting the rope out far enough so the horse could reach me with a kick. Once the "flee" they don't "fight". If the guy does not know this technique or one like it, I don't think he should be calling himself a horse trainer. Yes. And how easy is that to do? This is what I tried explain to this guy. I couldn't find the right words. He labeled the horse rank. But I have seen so many times that people bring up the fight in a horse first. They escalate the horse when the didn't need to. Some stud colts have a lot of fight, so instead of taking that out, like you say, you have to teach them to flee. But if you are too direct, you get in that fight. You make it a contest. True enough, if you enter that contest, you better be prepared to take to the end, and that is often too ugly to contemplate. So why go there? Why teach the horse to loose? I've had stallions attack me, from the track, of course. You couldn't keep him off of you. He put a couple grooms in the hospital. Of course, he was raised like a hot house plant. There was one a man helped me with him, just to find a way to work with him. He was a clever guy. He wanted to work the horse at liberty in a pen. So he picked up the lid to a metal trash can and used it as a shield, like a gladiator! It was cool. he used a flag to move the horse around. The horse would charge him, he just stuck that trash can lid up in his face. It was risky. You couldn't let your guard down. But the horse did change a little, and gave up attacking him. Problem was, he went right back to the same environment. Ronnie was this fellows name. He wouldn't work with the horse again, because the farm wouldn't change the environment. The damage was too deep anyway in this horse. Ronnie felt he would simply leave what the horse had left in him, because it kept people away from him, and it was people who caused the problem. They gelded him finally.
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