{"id":53,"date":"2008-06-30T10:19:50","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T16:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2008-06-30T10:19:50","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T16:19:50","slug":"is-your-horse-like-a-thick-skinned-hippopotamus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/general\/is-your-horse-like-a-thick-skinned-hippopotamus\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Horse Like A Thick-Skinned Hippopotamus?"},"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> Is Your Horse Like A Thick-Skinned Hippopotamus?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Andy Curry with another great message:<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite programs on TV is 60 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>But one time, a journalist named Mike<br \/>\nWallace got himself in a pickle.<\/p>\n<p>He was interviewing the Soviet President Boris Yeltsin.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace asked the former president if<br \/>\nhe was &#8220;thin-skinned&#8221; about the press.<\/p>\n<p>But the translator mis-translated the<br \/>\nquestion.<\/p>\n<p>When Yeltsin heard the question, it<br \/>\nwas translated to him as:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is Boris Yeltsin a<br \/>\nthick-skinned Hippopotamus?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yeltsin responded by saying that Wallace should express<br \/>\nhimself in a more civilized manner.<\/p>\n<p>Funny how things can get mis-communicated.<\/p>\n<p>And when it comes to horses, it happens all the time.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it.<\/p>\n<p>Your horse doesn&#8217;t know what you mean<br \/>\nwhen you ask him to do something unless he&#8217;s done<br \/>\nit enough to know what you want.<\/p>\n<p>When you first ask a horse to do something, he&#8217;s more<br \/>\nor less &#8220;guessing&#8221; what you want.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s actually searching for a way out<br \/>\nof the pressure you&#8217;re putting on him.<\/p>\n<p>And when the pressure&#8217;s off he kind of<br \/>\ngoes &#8220;whew!&#8221; and realizes when you do &#8220;X&#8221; then he&#8217;s<br \/>\nsupposed to do &#8220;Y&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The wrong thing to do would be to quit<br \/>\nthe pressure when he&#8217;s not doing what you want.<br \/>\nThat would teach him to do something you didn&#8217;t ask.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d be surprised how often that happens.<\/p>\n<p>An example is riding a horse and you ask him to go left.<\/p>\n<p>But he goes right.<\/p>\n<p>If you let him when you were asking him go left, then you<br \/>\njust taught him to either do what he wants and\/or to go<br \/>\nright when you want to go left.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, you might ask yourself if you&#8217;re having trouble<br \/>\ngetting your horse to do something.<\/p>\n<p>Is it because you&#8217;re not &#8220;translating&#8221; it correctly?<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not the whole picture.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also the part that it takes<br \/>\nabout 30 days for a horse to learn a verbal cue.<\/p>\n<p>So just because a horse just learned what &#8220;trot&#8221; meant<br \/>\ndoesn&#8217;t mean that from here on out he&#8217;s going to trot<br \/>\nwhen you say trot.<\/p>\n<p>It has to be reinforced constantly.<\/p>\n<p>Not reinforcing it is not translating to his language.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best ways you can translate to your horse is<br \/>\nto have a good foundation on him.<\/p>\n<p>The foundation starts from day one of<br \/>\nany horse&#8217;s training.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, most trainers I know will fix<br \/>\na horse problem by starting them over as if they<br \/>\ndidn&#8217;t know anything.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because they need to see what he knows<br \/>\nand what he doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>And what he doesn&#8217;t know will have to<br \/>\nbe taught to the horse.<\/p>\n<p>Or, maybe he learned the wrong thing due to a mis-translation.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, if your horse has behavioral problems and you can&#8217;t<br \/>\nseem to fix it, then I would urge you to restart him and<br \/>\ngo through the motions and fix it.<\/p>\n<p>Diana Quintana has a great 30 Day program she puts her<br \/>\nhorses through and I would encourage you to follow it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a for instance from her program.<\/p>\n<p>When you work a horse in the round pen<br \/>\nand you&#8217;re getting him going from one gait to the next,<br \/>\nit should be smooth.<\/p>\n<p>Not just &#8220;JERK!&#8221; into the next gait.<\/p>\n<p>No.<\/p>\n<p>It should be more of a smooth transition.<\/p>\n<p>That means from going slow to going faster and from going<br \/>\nfast and going back down to slower.<\/p>\n<p>A horse needs to know he can go from fast to slower and do<br \/>\nso without being excited and out of sorts.<\/p>\n<p>You must &#8220;translate&#8221; to him that that&#8217;s what he must do.<\/p>\n<p>As I said, Diana&#8217;s system is tried, tested, and very thorough.<\/p>\n<p>To see more about it, click on the following:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsetrainingresources.com\/dvd-dianaq.html\" title=\"Get Your Diana Quitana Training DVD\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Get Your Diana Quitana Training DVD<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember.<\/p>\n<p>A horse may not be doing something right because it&#8217;s what<br \/>\nhe understood to be right.<\/p>\n<p>Boris Yeltsin understood Mike Wallace said he was a<br \/>\nthick-skinned Hippopotamus.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not what Wallace said.<\/p>\n<p>It got lost in translation.<\/p>\n<p>Is your horse not doing something right because it<br \/>\ngets lost in translation?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsetrainingresources.com\/dvd-dianaq.html\" title=\"Get Your Diana Quitana Training DVD\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Get Your Diana Quitana Training DVD<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ok.. enough for today.\u00a0 Stay safe with your horses!<\/p>\n<p>Charlie<\/p>\n<p>P.S.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve made the 10% coupon active for anyone for this week.<br \/>\nSimply use the coupon code:<\/p>\n<p>CHARLIEHORSE<\/p>\n<p>on the final checkout page and you&#8217;ll get 10% off anything<br \/>\nyou put in the shopping<br \/>\ncart.<\/p>\n<p>Lord bless,<\/p>\n<p>Charlie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Your Horse Like A Thick-Skinned Hippopotamus? 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