Does Your Horse React or Respond?

Posted on April 20, 2009 by admin

“Does Your Horse React or Respond?”

Kenny Scott, one of our featured professional
trainers, has some great insight into horses
and discussed the difference between
Reaction vs. Responding when it comes to
handling your horse.

It’s weird.

The “possibility” of something happening to you
vs. it actually happening seems scarier.

Not sure why that is.

Perhaps it’s because our imaginations
run wild with the “what ifs”.

But did you know, horses are a lot
like this too?

Horses have a BIG imagination.

To see it, all you have to do is watch their
reaction when they see a plastic bag rolling
across the ground in front of them.

Years ago I was riding my horse behind
my house and she stopped.

She wouldn’t go forward either – not for all
the hay in the world.

Funny thing is, I couldn’t figure out
what was spookin’ her.

I knew something was but I couldn’t
see or hear a thing.  Pretty typical.  After
all, horses have way better hearing than we do.
Plus, their sight is designed like
radar.  It’ll pick up little blips we miss.

Anyway, after I unsuccessfully tried
talkin’ my horse into going forward, I got off.

I couldn’t even get her to walk a
big circle around it.

And she wasn’t about to go forward
or anywhere near the direction we “were” going.

So I climbed off and walked her forward with me.

There’s something magical about that at times.

You can walk in front of your horse toward a spooky
object and they’ll often go with you – albeit still scared.

Anyway, as we got closer I could hear
a sound but couldn’t quite make it out.

We got a little closer and then I
could hear what sounded like wind – sort of.

Even closer, I discovered the headgate
was open the field was being irrigated.

The water rushing out from the canal to the
headgate was making a gushing sound.

That’s what seized my horse’s brain – the sound
of rushing water.

Funny thing is, I had to get a 100 feet closer to
it to even hear a faint sound from it.

She heard it WAY before I did.

And here’s the thing.

You and I know it was just water.  We
were able to reason that.

She didn’t know what it was.
All she did was react.

Her imagination went wild because, in
her mind, “Who knows what that sound was.”
She was mostly concerned it was coming
to get her.

Now one reason I told you this is to
demonstrate how in-tune horses are to noise.

They are also sensitive to movement – but that’s
not my discussion today.

It’s the noise thing I wanna hit for a
minute.

When we filmed Kenny Scott, he was showing a very
green horse at the beginning of the DVD.

Kenny said there are times the horse stops and
when he does, you have to urge him forward.

http://HorseTrainingResources.com/dvd-kennyscott.html

And here’s the kicker.

If we have to urge him forward, we can create
a swat to the horse.

No,…we’re not hitting him.

Rather, we’re making a noise.

Remember my story about the headgate and the
canal and how horses are sensitive to noise?

You can use that as a tool to help work
with your horse.

As I said, horses respond to noise.

BUT!……

They “react” to pain.

We want our horse to respond…not react.

A broke horse is a response.

A scared horse is a reaction.

Make sense?

It’s one of those tricks you learn as you
keep working with horses and learn from others.

This particular one came from Kenny Scott as
I said earlier.

I urge you to read more about Kenny and his
methods if you haven’t already.

Go to:

http://HorseTrainingResources.com/dvd-kennyscott.html

Be careful when urging your horse forward with noise.

If he’s not used to it, you could get into a wreck.

So follow the rule of doing as little as you
need to…but as much as it takes.

http://HorseTrainingResources.com/dvd-kennyscott.html

Have a great week….. but do it safely.

Sincerely,

Charlie

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Horses and Cockroaches? (Are you kidding?)

Posted on April 18, 2009 by admin

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2. Horses and Cockroaches?  (Are you kidding?)

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2. Horses and Cockroaches?!!

I thought it was crazy when I read it.

But it said…

“Crushed cockroaches, when
applied to a stinging wound,
are said to ease the pain.”

I know, I know.

Hard to believe.

But I wonder…

What took place when this discovery happened?

Was some guy (it wouldn’t have been a girl,
they’re too smart for that) standing around
just after being bitten and suddenly it occurs
to him…

“Hey!…I wonder what
would happen if….?”

As funny as that is, that’s often how new things
are discovered by asking yourself,
“I wonder what would happen if…”

Take horse training for example.

The techniques used today are the
result of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds
of years of trial and error.

They were discovered by people trying
things that came to mind and if successful, then
it stuck  – albeit, some of the techniques
aren’t as promising as others.

A technique that IS promising is lungeing.

When we filmed Sue Robertson for her ground
work DVD, one of the things she showed was lungeing.

Sue demands respect from her horses
and she says lungeing is the basis of it.

She says it doesn’t matter if it’s a
weanling, a 10 year old, a yearling,…
whatever…she starts them back at ground work.

Of course, any trainer worth their
salt knows that and does that.

So this is nothing new.

But when Sue lunges the horse, the first
thing she does is push him out.

Sue says people seem to have a problem
with it thinking it’s hard on the horse but you
can’t push on the horse and hurt them.

You have a thousand pounds of bone and
muscle…you won’t hurt ’em.

Yes you can hurt them with a knife or
a whip but you can’t hurt them pushing on them.

So to begin, push the head away and smooch her
out…meaning: Kiss to the horse
to motivate them to move.

When the horse goes left, you have the
coil in your left hand and the hand is pointed
to the left.

Be sure the coil in your hand is situated that
the rope won’t catch your hand should the horse
take off.

The right hand is behind the horse to
give it space for forward motion.

Sue goes onto to say if the horse tries
to stop because they’re anticipating, then you
need to push them through it.

Anticipating is a great tool to use
while training your horse but it can also be
a pain in the butt and eventually backfire.

Anticipation, in horse training, is
known as the “Friend and Foe.”

If your horse gets to anticipating too
much they can start doing things on their own.

Eventually, that leads to them not listening to
you  – so you wanna change it up
enough to get them listening to you.

But on a horse that’s green and doesn’t
know what you want, anticipation is good.

Why?

Because they’re easily confused and you
want them to have confidence.

So if they anticipate what’s going to
happen and they do it and it’s correct…that’s
the start of building confidence and willingness
in your horse.

This is one of the horse training techniques Sue shows on her DVD.
And if you wanna know more about groundwork
from a true Pro, take a closer look at Sue’s info.
click on the following:

http://www.horsetrainingresources.com/dvd-robertson.html

In her DVD, Sue says this is the basis
for getting the horse to change.
Pretty soon, you can have them changing on their back ends.

Remember to train both directions because
they’re only half broke if you do only one direction.

Once your horse has done what you want
(provided it’s not beyond his ability), then
you should quit him for the lesson and give him
something everyone enjoys…even horses.

And that is…

“An Atta Boy”

Yep.

Even horses appreciate a pat on the back.

http://www.horsetrainingresources.com/dvd-robertson.html

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That’s it for this session….thanks for your business.

Work with your horses…keep up the effort…but do it ALL safely.

Sincerely,

Charlie

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Airplane Bomb Threat and Communicating With Our Horses!

Posted on April 17, 2009 by admin

Charlie from www.HorseTrainingResources.com here….

  “Airplane Bomb Threat and
Communicating With Our Horses!”

On January 4, 1993, a Trans Air
flight was forced to return to Fort
Lauderdale, Florida.

Why?

Because a German passenger said to
the flight attendant:

‘The roof will fly if I sit down’

Think about that for a minute.  Put
yourself in the attendants shoes.  Whaddya
suppose the German passenger was saying?

The attendant thought the passenger
was saying the roof of the plane would somehow explode.

So…the passenger was arrested and
took to trial.  It was at trial that translators
discovered the saying ‘The roof will fly’ is slang for…

‘My bladder is about to burst!’

Imagine!  The industry was ready to
hang this man because of a miscommunication.

So that got me thinking about
mis-communication with horses.

One type of ‘mis-communication’ is
naming a horse that sounds much like a command.

For instance, if you call your horse
‘Joe’ (and I’ve known some horses named that)
it’s so similar to ‘whoa’.   Every time the
horse’s name is said, he will be ‘whoa-ing’.

Imagine the rider out on the trail and
he’s feelin’ good about his horse and he
pets him and says ‘Good boy Joe’.

The horse hears the ‘ O ‘ sound and
assumes ‘whoa’ – so he stops.  Little
wonder the horse was confused.

Commands can confuse too.  Every
verbal command should sound different
from the other.

For instance, if you’re riding and you
want your horse to slow down, I wouldn’t
choose the word ‘slow’ because it sounds
so much like ‘whoa’.

Choose a different one like ‘easy’.

Miscommunication happens between horse
and rider with the reins too…it’s not just verbal.

I know of horses who’s mouths were punished
while being ridden…and when the horse stopped
his mouth wasn’t being punished.

Thus, the horse knew that to move meant pain in
the mouth.  So being in the horse’s shoes why
would you move if you’re being hurt?  It’s better
and more pleasant to stay put.

So the lesson of the day is this:
We are like the passenger on the plane.
We must communicate clearly and intently
so we don’t get in trouble.

The horse is like the airline attendant –
she interpreted the passenger’s comment as
she understood it.

Likewise, horses interpret in the way
they know how.  So it’s up to us, the rider
and trainer, to make sure communication is clear –
or just like the passenger…we can get into
unnecessary trouble.

The best example of communication I can think of
is what Linda Braddy reveals.

You can read more about it at:

http://www.horsetrainingresources.com/dvd-brady.html

There are mountains of ways to communicate with horses.

Often, people are shocked to discover that what they
think they’re communicating to their horse creates t
he exact opposite reaction they want from their horse.

If you’re not getting what you want from your horse,
it could be because you’re not communicating the
right thing to your horse.

Be sure to communicate the “right answer”
to your horse so he knows EXACTLY what you want.

http://www.horsetrainingresources.com/dvd-brady.html

That’s it for this issue….  stay safe out there.

Charlie

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Linda”

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