I amuse myself

[maggies_lens]

in bad_riding a vid was put up of Linda Parelli (or however the hell you spell it) basically beating the living crap out of some poor horses' face with a lead rope to make it back up. Um. Natural horsemanship EPIC FAIL! I taught Desi to back in 5 mins using my hand on her chest and a loose rope flicking at her feet to get her to move them and make the connection. And that's when I was GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEN as grass with young horses and never trained one in my life. Gawd, even *I* knew back then that would work. She's meant to be a TRAINER, a world famous advocate for a kinder, gentler way. Pfft. You know, I read all the Natural Horsemanship books when I got Desi, they made sense in a lot of ways and I learnt a lot, but I didn't play 'games', I never read ANYthing about BEATING a horse, and I ended up using the advise from an old Australian horse trainer book (who's name escapes me at the moment! Aussies, help? Old guy, had a series of books, Tom something or other.....). Anyway, my responce to the entry, had some 3-minute fun with Google and then Photoshop *snigger*



t-minus 24 hours until I know about Lead Dispatcher. *quakes*

Comments

[jaanka.livejournal.com]

The Aussie author is Tom Roberts, he is brilliant.
I haven't seen the video will have to go have a look at it.

I have been having an issue with Tally invading my personal space of late, and have had to be really firm with him; but I have found that there is a thin line and if I push him to much he goes up to rear.

It's always fine tuning and finding the best parts of any training method and putting them together to get what works for you and your horse.

Love the picture by the way!

[http://users.livejournal.com/blitzen_/]

beej was definitely an up in the air horse too when we first started & was OFFENDED by my even trying to tell him what to do. it's interesting now that 3.5yrs later he still pushes the boundaries, but is all "YES MA'AM" when i put my foot down & say "get the fuck out of my space". he doesn't go up at all anymore (touchwood). i have some mint photos that demonstrate this! even if we just had forward propulsion & i STOPPED it, he'd go up. haha.

[maggies-lens.livejournal.com]

THAT'S THE ONE!!!!! I read his book so long ago, I really should read it again. he is quite amazing. I agree 100% with taking bits and pieces and seeing what works for you. The clip just got me a bit...riled up. I don't like that sort of thing; Danny was horribly head shy when I got him and I think he probably got similar treatment.