Post by eirualaerdna on Jan 20, 2007 15:06:49 GMT -5
If, in any case, you have a horse that has not been "broken" yet, is particularily hard to get past something you are trying to train, or even if it has recently lost some comfort, respect or now has fear of a human (i.e. being mistreated by a bad trainer or something of the sort), i suggest this:
Some have heard of Monty Roberts, and most believe his "join up" tactics are only for the untrained, unrideable horses to break or start them. This is NOT TRUE. His method of breaking the barrier between horse and human are good for ANY of the following: breaking, regaining trust, and ease of getting a horse to settle down a bit and listen to you, so you can show him/her something, and have a higher likelyhood of them accepting and learning something they have previously not been able to do. (Those particularily difficult things to train)
When I was 15 I taught a horse that was 18 to accept a rider bareback (this horse had a huge bucking issue if you put weight on her back if there wasn't a saddle on her first. Vet checked it wasn't pain causing this.) She just didn't like it. After about 15-20 minutes I was sitting on her with no halter, lead rope, nothing. She was a little worried at first, but quickly became content when she saw there was no harm in what I was doing. She was great! Can't tell me you can't teach an old horse new tricks
For anyone that's trying to get their horse to understand something, but the horse has already been broken and trained, I recommend someone the horse either doesn't know, or doesn't know well to do the initial join up, achieve whatever it is you're training, then have the horse's owner (or whoever the horse trusts most) repeat the item to be trained. this is a different kind of reasurance that will 95% of the time work well to make the horse completely comfortable, and learn the task completely in a much shorter amount of time. Remember, repeat, repeat, repeat!
If you're unfamiliar with his tactics, but want to try this yourself to work out some kinks in your own horse, or want to start a green horse, I can email you a shortened version of Monty's own manual on how to do his "join up" method. =)
Some have heard of Monty Roberts, and most believe his "join up" tactics are only for the untrained, unrideable horses to break or start them. This is NOT TRUE. His method of breaking the barrier between horse and human are good for ANY of the following: breaking, regaining trust, and ease of getting a horse to settle down a bit and listen to you, so you can show him/her something, and have a higher likelyhood of them accepting and learning something they have previously not been able to do. (Those particularily difficult things to train)
When I was 15 I taught a horse that was 18 to accept a rider bareback (this horse had a huge bucking issue if you put weight on her back if there wasn't a saddle on her first. Vet checked it wasn't pain causing this.) She just didn't like it. After about 15-20 minutes I was sitting on her with no halter, lead rope, nothing. She was a little worried at first, but quickly became content when she saw there was no harm in what I was doing. She was great! Can't tell me you can't teach an old horse new tricks
For anyone that's trying to get their horse to understand something, but the horse has already been broken and trained, I recommend someone the horse either doesn't know, or doesn't know well to do the initial join up, achieve whatever it is you're training, then have the horse's owner (or whoever the horse trusts most) repeat the item to be trained. this is a different kind of reasurance that will 95% of the time work well to make the horse completely comfortable, and learn the task completely in a much shorter amount of time. Remember, repeat, repeat, repeat!
If you're unfamiliar with his tactics, but want to try this yourself to work out some kinks in your own horse, or want to start a green horse, I can email you a shortened version of Monty's own manual on how to do his "join up" method. =)
