This message is from: Steven A White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jean,
I think the point was why use cruelty when you can just as easily get good results with kindness. Many horses have been injured and killed when they were force broken. I have seen in person Monty Roberts start a green horse that wasn't even halter broke and have a person riding him around a ring within 25 minutes. I personally knew the man who owned the horse, so I know that it wasn't a hoax. 25 minutes doesn't seem like a lot of trouble to me. -Steve White Waterloo, NE On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 13:06:35 -0800 "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >This message is from: "Jean Gayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Well I for one thought his way of handling wild horses was an attempt >to >prove himself right and his father wrong. nothing wrong with that. >The >movie showing him working with a wild horse over a period of days made >me >wonder if the old cowboys did not save themselves a lot of trouble by >their >methods of breaking. Having ridden many cow ponies who were broken in >less >than gentle means I found them reliable and not afraid of humans. >There is >more than one way to do all things. Jean Gayle Wash. state > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Bushnell's <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Saturday, February 13, 1999 11:40 AM >Subject: Horse Whispers-or Horsefeathers? > > >>This message is from: "Bushnell's" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> >>Just read a feature piece in the February issue of "Horse and Rider" >>entitled "Horse Whispers-or Horsefeathers?" in which Monty Robert's >best >>seller, "The Man Who Listens to Horses" is maligned. >> >>A cowboy hero "bites the dust," as many of his accounts are >discredited. We >>were both originally favorably impressed with the book (although felt >it >>had a lame conclusion) but it must be theorhetically correct insofar >as >>horse taming is concerned. >> >>What do you think? >> >>Ruthie Bushnell >> > >
