{"id":16,"date":"2008-02-21T08:08:58","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T14:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2008-02-21T09:08:13","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T15:08:13","slug":"horse-training-what-to-do-with-your-horse-when-you-have-little-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/general\/horse-training-what-to-do-with-your-horse-when-you-have-little-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse Training: What To Do With Your Horse When You Have Little Time"},"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>Charlie from HorseTrainingResources.com here&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>In This Magazine Issue:<\/p>\n<p>******************************************************************<\/p>\n<p>1. What to do with a horse when you have little time<\/p>\n<p>2. A Few Legacy Horse Books on CD Remaining<\/p>\n<p>******************************************************************<\/p>\n<p>1. What to do with a horse when you have little time<\/p>\n<p>Andy Curry talks about making the best use of time with your horse&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Can you answer these two questions?<\/p>\n<p>Question one.<\/p>\n<p>What grows down while it grows up?<\/p>\n<p>Question two.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have much time to work with your horse during the week, is there anything you can do that would help?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll answer question one in a minute.<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s start with question two.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what your schedule is like, but if you&#8217;re like most people, you&#8217;re very busy.<\/p>\n<p>That creates a bit of a dilemma when you&#8217;re a horse owner.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because you should spend some time with your horse.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t want them becoming lawn ornaments.<\/p>\n<p>But what if you don&#8217;t have much time?<\/p>\n<p>Is there anything you can do that is effective?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are lots of things you can do that matter.<\/p>\n<p>But I won&#8217;t lie to you.<\/p>\n<p>There are also lots of times you need anywhere from 20 minutes to a few hours to be effective with a horse.<\/p>\n<p>However, those are the times we&#8217;re not interested in at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>So what kinds of things can you do with a horse if you only have just minutes a day?<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few ideas for you.<\/p>\n<p>Go out and catch your horse.<\/p>\n<p>Put the halter on him.<\/p>\n<p>Once you do, then start brushing him.<\/p>\n<p>Talk to him when you brush him.<\/p>\n<p>Build that trust factor and create a stronger familiarity between yourselves.<\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re done, take off the halter.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure not to let him take off when you remove the halter.<\/p>\n<p>If he wants to leave as the halter is almost off, keep it around his neck and just keep a hold of him.<\/p>\n<p>When he&#8217;s quiet for a few moments, then remove the halter.<\/p>\n<p>Now you may be thinking that this sounds far too simple to be effective for anything.<\/p>\n<p>Truth is, there&#8217;s more going on behind the scenes than the average Joe knows.<\/p>\n<p>First, when you catch your horse with the halter and start brushing him, he starts an important association.<\/p>\n<p>Of what?<\/p>\n<p>That when you come at him with the halter he may get brushed.<\/p>\n<p>So what?<\/p>\n<p>Well, most of the time a horse sees a halter and knows he&#8217;s gonna have to work, possibly be kicked on, pulled on, etc.<\/p>\n<p>If that was you,&#8230;wouldn&#8217;t you be hard to catch?<\/p>\n<p>But if you started thinking you&#8217;re gonna get a nice brushing when you saw that halter, you&#8217;d have no reason to leave.<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re situation is such that you don&#8217;t have much time, you can certainly approach your horse with a halter, brush him, pet him, and get him used to thinking the halter is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, your horse won&#8217;t take off as you approach him with the halter.<\/p>\n<p>Next, as you&#8217;re talking to him, you&#8217;re building a trust that your horse needs to have from you.<\/p>\n<p>As he gets more familiar with your voice, he gets more trusting of you &#8211; as long as you don&#8217;t bother him.<\/p>\n<p>And by bother him I mean hitting his fear button or his &#8220;you&#8217;re makin&#8217; me mad&#8221; button.<\/p>\n<p>But know this.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s okay to hit his fear button a little because you can help your horse get over stuff that scares him.<\/p>\n<p>After all, a horse has to be scared of something to not fear it later.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing is this.<\/p>\n<p>It can often take more than just a few minutes to get a horse over the fear of something &#8211; so be careful what you choose to do.<\/p>\n<p>Next, when you take off that halter and you get him staying with you, then there&#8217;s no reason for him to take off.<\/p>\n<p>Why do you want him staying with you when take off the halter?<\/p>\n<p>Because you want to keep a good association with you.<\/p>\n<p>I find people who take off the halter then smack the horse in the butt with it to get &#8217;em to run off.<\/p>\n<p>They think it&#8217;s funny.<\/p>\n<p>But they&#8217;re making it harder for the horse to be with them.  They destroy that trust and confidence factor.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, keeping your horse with you teaches him that YOU say when he can leave instead of him dictating what he can do.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a respect thing you gotta have.  Plus, you always, always, always want your horse looking to you for permission.<\/p>\n<p>See?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s actually some good stuff you can do if you only have a few minutes a day.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to know more things you can do, I urge you to check out the following:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.horsetrainingresources.com\/dvdnotime.html<\/p>\n<p>You should know that doing these quickie things are no substitute for spending good quality training and riding time with your horse.<\/p>\n<p>But the fact is, you should do something with your horse every day if you can &#8211; and this&#8217;ll give you other ideas you can do that matter.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, did you figure out the answer to the first question:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What grows down while it grows up?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The answer is:  A Goose<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.horsetrainingresources.com\/dvdnotime.html<\/p>\n<p>***************************************************************************<\/p>\n<p>2. 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