{"id":139,"date":"2009-04-20T08:55:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T14:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/?p=139"},"modified":"2009-04-20T08:55:48","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T14:55:48","slug":"does-your-horse-react-or-respond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/general\/does-your-horse-react-or-respond\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Your Horse React or Respond?"},"content":{"rendered":"<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/css\/authover.css\" media=\"screen\" \/>\r\n\t       <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/css\/simplemodel.css\" media=\"screen\"\/>\r\n\t          <script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n\tsrc=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/js\/jquery-1.7.2.min.js\"><\/script>\r\n           <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/js\/jquery.simplemodal.js\"><\/script>\r\n           <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/js\/authover.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n\t\t\t\tvar jq = jQuery.noConflict();\r\n\t\t\t\tfunction openPopup(url,width,height,delay,useajax,iframe,exitt){\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\talert(url);\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\tauthover.configure({\r\n\t\t\t\t\tiFrameAttribute : {\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"name\" : \"autFrame\",\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"id\" : \"authFrame\",\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"src\" : \"http:\/\/wikipedia.com\",\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"height\" : \"100%\",\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"width\" : \"100%\"\r\n\t\t\t\t},\r\n\t\t\t\tmodalContent : url,\r\n\t\t\t\twidth : width,\r\n\t\t\t\theight : height,\r\n\t\t\t\tdelay : delay,\r\n\t\t\t\tpopupUseAjax: 0,\r\n\t\t\t\ttargetUseIframe: iframe,\r\n\t\t\t\tpopupIsRedirect: useajax,\r\n\t\t\t\texitAlertText: exitt\r\n\t\t\t\t});\r\n\t\t\t\tauthover.triggerModal();\r\nreturn false;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/script><p><strong>&#8220;Does Your Horse React or Respond?<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kenny Scott, one of our featured professional<br \/>\ntrainers, has some great insight into horses<br \/>\nand discussed the difference between<br \/>\nReaction vs. Responding when it comes to<br \/>\nhandling your horse.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s weird.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;possibility&#8221; of something happening to you<br \/>\nvs. it actually happening seems scarier.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure why that is.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s because our imaginations<br \/>\nrun wild with the &#8220;what ifs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But did you know, horses are a lot<br \/>\nlike this too?<\/p>\n<p>Horses have a BIG imagination.<\/p>\n<p>To see it, all you have to do is watch their<br \/>\nreaction when they see a plastic bag rolling<br \/>\nacross the ground in front of them.<\/p>\n<p>Years ago I was riding my horse behind<br \/>\nmy house and she stopped.<\/p>\n<p>She wouldn&#8217;t go forward either &#8211; not for all<br \/>\nthe hay in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Funny thing is, I couldn&#8217;t figure out<br \/>\nwhat was spookin&#8217; her.<\/p>\n<p>I knew something was but I couldn&#8217;t<br \/>\nsee or hear a thing.\u00a0 Pretty typical.\u00a0 After<br \/>\nall, horses have way better hearing than we do.<br \/>\nPlus, their sight is designed like<br \/>\nradar.\u00a0 It&#8217;ll pick up little blips we miss.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, after I unsuccessfully tried<br \/>\ntalkin&#8217; my horse into going forward, I got off.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t even get her to walk a<br \/>\nbig circle around it.<\/p>\n<p>And she wasn&#8217;t about to go forward<br \/>\nor anywhere near the direction we &#8220;were&#8221; going.<\/p>\n<p>So I climbed off and walked her forward with me.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something magical about that at times.<\/p>\n<p>You can walk in front of your horse toward a spooky<br \/>\nobject and they&#8217;ll often go with you &#8211; albeit still scared.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, as we got closer I could hear<br \/>\na sound but couldn&#8217;t quite make it out.<\/p>\n<p>We got a little closer and then I<br \/>\ncould hear what sounded like wind &#8211; sort of.<\/p>\n<p>Even closer, I discovered the headgate<br \/>\nwas open the field was being irrigated.<\/p>\n<p>The water rushing out from the canal to the<br \/>\nheadgate was making a gushing sound.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what seized my horse&#8217;s brain &#8211; the sound<br \/>\nof rushing water.<\/p>\n<p>Funny thing is, I had to get a 100 feet closer to<br \/>\nit to even hear a faint sound from it.<\/p>\n<p>She heard it WAY before I did.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the thing.<\/p>\n<p>You and I know it was just water.\u00a0 We<br \/>\nwere able to reason that.<\/p>\n<p>She didn&#8217;t know what it was.<br \/>\nAll she did was react.<\/p>\n<p>Her imagination went wild because, in<br \/>\nher mind, &#8220;Who knows what that sound was.&#8221;<br \/>\nShe was mostly concerned it was coming<br \/>\nto get her.<\/p>\n<p>Now one reason I told you this is to<br \/>\ndemonstrate how in-tune horses are to noise.<\/p>\n<p>They are also sensitive to movement &#8211; but that&#8217;s<br \/>\nnot my discussion today.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the noise thing I wanna hit for a<br \/>\nminute.<\/p>\n<p>When we filmed Kenny Scott, he was showing a very<br \/>\ngreen horse at the beginning of the DVD.<\/p>\n<p>Kenny said there are times the horse stops and<br \/>\nwhen he does, you have to urge him forward.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/HorseTrainingResources.com\/dvd-kennyscott.html<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the kicker.<\/p>\n<p>If we have to urge him forward, we can create<br \/>\na swat to the horse.<\/p>\n<p>No,&#8230;we&#8217;re not hitting him.<\/p>\n<p>Rather, we&#8217;re making a noise.<\/p>\n<p>Remember my story about the headgate and the<br \/>\ncanal and how horses are sensitive to noise?<\/p>\n<p>You can use that as a tool to help work<br \/>\nwith your horse.<\/p>\n<p>As I said, horses respond to noise.<\/p>\n<p>BUT!&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>They &#8220;react&#8221; to pain.<\/p>\n<p>We want our horse to respond&#8230;not react.<\/p>\n<p>A broke horse is a response.<\/p>\n<p>A scared horse is a reaction.<\/p>\n<p>Make sense?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of those tricks you learn as you<br \/>\nkeep working with horses and learn from others.<\/p>\n<p>This particular one came from Kenny Scott as<br \/>\nI said earlier.<\/p>\n<p>I urge you to read more about Kenny and his<br \/>\nmethods if you haven&#8217;t already.<\/p>\n<p>Go to:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/HorseTrainingResources.com\/dvd-kennyscott.html<\/p>\n<p>Be careful when urging your horse forward with noise.<\/p>\n<p>If he&#8217;s not used to it, you could get into a wreck.<\/p>\n<p>So follow the rule of doing as little as you<br \/>\nneed to&#8230;but as much as it takes.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/HorseTrainingResources.com\/dvd-kennyscott.html<\/p>\n<p>Have a great week&#8230;.. but do it safely.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Charlie<\/p>\n<p>P.S. 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