{"id":45,"date":"2008-05-30T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2008-05-30T09:00:59","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T15:00:59","slug":"does-your-horse-come-with-a-warning-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/general\/does-your-horse-come-with-a-warning-label\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Your Horse Come With A Warning Label?"},"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>Does Your Horse Come With A Warning Label?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trainer Andy Curry is discussing warning labels and horses:<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be neat if horses came<br \/>\nwith warning labels?<\/p>\n<p>After all, things us consumers buy<br \/>\nalways have warning labels.<\/p>\n<p>Some warning labels are downright<br \/>\noutrageous.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, on a bottle of hair<br \/>\ncoloring there was a warning that said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do not use as an<br \/>\nice cream topping.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No,&#8230;I&#8217;m not joking.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one that&#8217;ll cause you to<br \/>\npuzzle.<\/p>\n<p>It was a warning from a laser pointer.<br \/>\nIt said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do not look into<br \/>\nlaser with remaining eye.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Remaining eye????!!<\/p>\n<p>But again, wouldn&#8217;t it be neat if<br \/>\nhorses came with warning labels?<\/p>\n<p>If they did, would it reduce the<br \/>\nnumber of accidents?<\/p>\n<p>After all, if you&#8217;re getting a horse<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s been ridden or trained by someone else,<br \/>\nyou don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re getting &#8211; unless<br \/>\nyou know who trained and rode.<\/p>\n<p>The only other way I know of is to<br \/>\nevaluate the horse.<\/p>\n<p>But to evaluate, you really need to<br \/>\nknow what to look for.<\/p>\n<p>In Doug and Danie Hewlett&#8217;s Reining<br \/>\nDVD set, they show some good evaluation techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Sure they&#8217;re doing it from a Reining<br \/>\nstandpoint, but it just so happens that<br \/>\nit is pertinent to horses no matter the discipline.<\/p>\n<p>For example, how would you like to<br \/>\nknow if your horse is in agreement with you?<\/p>\n<p>In other words, if you ask your horse<br \/>\nto do something&#8230;does he do it willingly<br \/>\nor is he not happy about it.<\/p>\n<p>If he does it willingly then that is<br \/>\ncertainly a good sign.<\/p>\n<p>You have just evaluated that his mind-<br \/>\nset is that of willingness.\u00a0 Another quick<br \/>\ntest or two would be advised to confirm it.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s good.<\/p>\n<p>But if he&#8217;s not happy about doing some- thing<br \/>\nyou ask of him, then that&#8217;s a sign that he may<br \/>\ndo what HE wants and he doesn&#8217;t care about<br \/>\nwhat you want.<\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re on his back, that&#8217;s NOT<br \/>\nwhat you want.<\/p>\n<p>One way to tell if your horse is<br \/>\nwilling or not is to ask him to lope in<br \/>\neither the round pen or while lungeing.<\/p>\n<p>When he lopes he may do it freely<br \/>\nor&#8230;he may want to kick at you.<\/p>\n<p>If he kicks at you then you know he&#8217;s<br \/>\nnot in real agreement with what you want.<\/p>\n<p>Would you want to get on a horse that&#8217;s<br \/>\nnot in agreement with you?<\/p>\n<p>No!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re an experienced rider and trainer you may.<\/p>\n<p>But you may not either.<\/p>\n<p>I know trainers who refuse to get on<br \/>\nother people&#8217;s horses because they don&#8217;t<br \/>\nknow the horse.<\/p>\n<p>Does that mean they&#8217;re not worth their<br \/>\nsalt?<\/p>\n<p>No.<\/p>\n<p>It means they&#8217;re thinking about their<br \/>\nsafety and they&#8217;ve been hurt enough times that<br \/>\nthey aren&#8217;t going to risk injury un-necessarily.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, it&#8217;d be neat if horses came with<br \/>\nwarning labels.<\/p>\n<p>But since they don&#8217;t, you should really know<br \/>\nsome evaluation techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Doug and Danie Hewlett show some<br \/>\nvaluable evaluation techniques in their Reining DVD.<\/p>\n<p>If you feel you need to bone up on your safety by<br \/>\nknowing more about evaluating horses, just click<br \/>\nthe following to know more:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/dvd-daniedoughewlett.html\" title=\"Get Your Hewlett Reining DVD\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Get Your Hewlett Reining DVD<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one more warning label I thought<br \/>\nyou&#8217;d get a kick out of.<\/p>\n<p>Once you read it, you&#8217;ll know exactly<br \/>\nwhy it was put on the product.<\/p>\n<p>On a Batman costume the warning label said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Warning: Cape does not<br \/>\nenable user to fly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/dvd-daniedoughewlett.html\" title=\"Get Your Hewlett Reining DVD\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Get Your Hewlett Reining DVD<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does Your Horse Come With A Warning Label? 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