Ways to Teach your horse to have good Behavior

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Comment by Diana Brown on July 4, 2008 at 9:41pm

Sydney, I see your note here and want to respect that you were misunderstood before I enter this discussion. I do agree with Margrit and Ludovica.
Also, I believe that if you approach any species with honor, love and respect (including humans), without attachment they will respond in kind. I also believe that most behavioral problems displayed by horses are people problems. I think problems arise when we don't recognize who the horse is and what is truly natural for a horse. I believe horses are simple and it is the human that makes it complicated. Wild horses, herd behavior and being attuned to our own horses responses can lead us all to a better understanding what it is to be horse.

Comment by ludovica gerbasi on July 4, 2008 at 3:31pm

(sorry, typo: "so" is part of old, deleted comment... ignore it!)
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Comment by ludovica gerbasi on July 4, 2008 at 3:30pm

i agree with Margrit: it is the other way around, actually.
and i would add a note of gratitude to my horsefriend Lily Rose, who - through her very consistent horsiness - is teaching me to have a "good behaviour: first of all with myself. then with her, who is my mirror, my friend, my Teacher. and the added bonus is that i can have "good behaviour" with my fellow bipeds too ...
horses never ever fail us. and here, too, it is the other way around...
so

Comment by Margrit Coates on July 4, 2008 at 12:36pm

I mean to type second para ' As a species humans do NOT respect other species!

Comment by Margrit Coates on July 4, 2008 at 12:35pm

The way that I see it, horses have plenty of respect for all other beings. They would not have survived as a prey species for thousands of years without it.

As a species humans do respect other species, and that is where the problem with horses begins....and look at what humans are doing to all forms of life around the world.

Often people do not understand what horses communicate, how they think or feel, and then a horse can get labelled as having a behavioral problem or being disrespectful. If a horse does not 'respect' a person there is a reason, often in my experience because the person needs to deal with their own disrepectful issues, sort out pain in a horse, or improve lifestyle/management etc.

Horses by nature want to please and be helpful, and deep relationships with them are made through seeing the world through their eyes. And also by understanding that horses have thoughts and feelings .

Comment by Amy on May 15, 2008 at 5:34pm

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Comment by Linda on May 9, 2008 at 10:59am

Sydney-

I have a bit of a different view of horses. I believe that horses are looking for a leader. As such, I consider my horse my partner and myself the leader of a herd of two. I never "make" my horse do anything. But, if I set it up right, my horses offer me more than I could have ever demanded. Just a thought.....

Linda