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"How To Make Horse Training Affordable," from my FREE monthly newsletter
From the Basic Horse Training Series:
"What you should do: Diagnose the problem and form a plan. Is your horse simply being a pest as you feed him? Or is he literally trying to kill you when you enter the pen? Do you know the difference? Are you looking to improve his transition into the proper lead – or does he have a bucking fit every time you mount up? To put it succinctly, if the horse is annoying, you've got time to figure things out. If the horse is dangerous, you don't. If the horse is dangerous, you don't get on him, you don't get near him. What about the gray area in between? To decide which end of the spectrum your horse falls into ("dangerous, not dangerous") I would advise listening to that little voice in your head and you may need to do so daily. If you're about to get on your horse and that little voice says something's amiss, get back off. I realize that's no "fix," but that's not what this article's about. This is about diagnosing situations, creating plans to remedy the situations, and moving forward.
So, let's break this down. Let's say that there are five different levels you can find yourself facing: 1) My horse is going to kill me today. 2) I believe my horse is going to hurt me the next time I ask for (a lope, a halt, fill in the blank). 3) My horse makes me nervous (when I'm on the trail and he sees something spooky, for instance). 4) When I try to (bathe the horse, bridle the horse, etc.) he gets really cranky. 5) I would like to improve my horse's (lead departure, spin, etc.)."
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Round Pen First Steps
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A sample from Day 3:
"Horses that don't trot off when asked need to be "re-sensitized" to our aids and spooky horses need to be "desensitized" (to our touch, to bug spray, to the saddle). But here's a very major point that you should bear in mind: You can spend your entire life desensitizing your horse to new and scary objects and never run out of material. Because of this, we treat items that might touch the horse or that he might come into contact with frequently (such as waving tarps, fly masks or saddle blankets) in a different fashion than the unknown situation that might arise on the trail or show grounds. To arm ourselves against the "unknowns," we'll cover a step-by-step description of what John Lyons calls "Spook in Place" today. While we can never tell the horse to "not be scared," we can certainly teach him what to do with his feet when he does become spooked – and that's what this exercise is all about. In tomorrow's segment (Day Four), we'll begin the sacking out process by desensitizing your horse to common objects – tack, your touch, etc."
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How to Put an Extension in a Horse's Tail
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Tail Extensions for Horses
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