I amuse myself

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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*

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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.