Is It Better To Have a Horse Love You & Not Listen or to Have a Horse Listen & Not Love You Now?

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NO HORSES WERE HURT OR KILLED IN THIS VIDEO ONLY ABUSED A BIT.

STOP babying horses - It is ok for a horse to get scared, to pull back when tied, to want to run away or flee - this is all natural behavior and instincts. However, to make a horse better & safer you have be able to get your horse to ignore his flight instincts when he is scared, nervous or just wants to say NO.

THIS IS NOT ABUSE. Sacking out or desensitizing a horse has many levels - a horse needs to learn to ignore his instincts sometime so it can be safer. Tuning up a horse or continued training or revisiting old training to reinforce it is always needed periodically.

Letting a horse make mistakes, react or pushed to a point of resistance is OK as long as you know when to stop and ensure you are teaching the right lesson. Stopping too soon, pushing too hard can teach the wrong lesson.

Stop tying to prevent everything & save the horse from ever being scared - they get scared it is in their DNA - you will never prevent this, but you can change the way they react to fear and how they handle or accept fear.

Just like for humans, it is ok to be scared of a horse or scared to get thrown but you cannot let that fear control you or dictate what you will do or not do. Everyone wants a horse to get over their fear but people can't get over their fear.

FEAR is crippling for the horse and person if the person allows it. Only the person can stop it, change it or learn to control it, the horse is only a reflection of it's environment.

A horse does best, what it does most. If you allow it to be scared all the time he will do that good. If you ride him all the time he will do that good. If you take short cuts so will the horse. Every person should know how to push their horse too far and how their horse will handle that. It is a learning experience for both the horse and person.

90 percent of my questions deal with human fear being projected onto the horse. You will see in this video, I do not let horses create fear in me. However, I can create fear and remove fear, I can help the fear be less or make it more. The horse has to see you as leader, smarter, higher, all knowing - if you let a horse know that you don't know - trust will always be an issue. A horse see weakness in slow reaction, fear movements, lack of direction, lack of consistency, how YOU handler pressure from the horse, does the horse get to win or control what you do, how long you do it or how you do it - Being aware of all this and helps you to know what you are teaching, not what you want to teach.

A horse does not love you in the human form. You can think that and you can see that but it just is not so. A horse see you as a food source, as a herd member, herd leader, someone who can give pressure and can remove pressure. An unsafe horse is bad for The Horse. I would rather see a horse unloved but well cared for than a wild horse that is loved. Watch my Buck video on the crazy love woman. She loved that Stallion and then killed it. I would rather she hated it, make it listen, taught it to behave in a domesticated environment so it would be alive and live a long life than to have her love and be killed. Loving a horse without discipline or proper handling is abuse. But since most violators of this are women you can't say anything otherwise you are a sexist and are picking on women.

I am NOT for abusing a horse, but a horse will have a better life if they are scared of people rather then people being scared of them. It will end up better for THE HORSE so that is what I am in favor of.

Sacking out or desensitizing a horse is applying slight pressure and removing so the horse learns to accept it and then slowly increasing the pressure to help the horse deal with his fear and to let the horse know that when he is scared he does not have run or flight. Another technique is sometimes called "flooding" where the horse is flooded with lots of stimuli or pressure and has to learn to deal with it no matter how much happens. This can be done wrong too. Anyone can push a horse to blow up and some time it is good to have a blow up so he knows he can and also learns blowing up gets him nothing and especially not release. What I was doing to Mr. T was a variation of the two, some may call it flooding, but I do not think I was at that level of exaggerated stimuli / pressure.

You will notice in the video when Buddy pulls I yell his name as I am backing away - that it do distract him from pulling and get him back to paying attention to me.

Save the hate mail both got grain and oats, got a nice cool bath and was let out to pasture to graze after this video.

Link to Pony Video I talk about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUxxB7hm-5w

Here is a video I did after this video where I give the horses a spray down with the horse - notice how nice they stand and listen - It's a miracle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcTMSzeh2PE

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