This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jean gayle) Good point, Paula, cavaletti (sp) are very useful too for balance and paying attention. Jean Gayle
>This message is from: Paula Steinmetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >No question that lunging is boring for the lunger and lungee!! But a necessary >"evil" for all the reasons stated in the previous posts. I find lunging especially >useful as a gauge of the animal's attitude on any given day. (Some of them do get >up on the wrong side of the stall from time to time!) Varying the routine with >trotting poles and cavelletti laid out in different patterns each time helps to >keep it a little more interesting for them and me. > Jean Gayle --- A Subscriber at Techline