On 9/18/07, Nancy Sturm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Nancy, I thought of something. Isn't your daughter in a scooter wheel chair? My friend Ruth has MS and rides in a scooter. I went on a ride with her one day and she saw that Fox was not good with me on the lead and I told her I had been working with him and he was a lot better. At first he would freak and not let me lead him at all and drag me like a water skier. but we had improved a lot but he would still rush me or drag behind. She said oh boy, do I have a method to help you... and turns out, horses very naturally for whatever reason will lead wonderfully beside one of these scooter things! I was amazed. Ruth and I speculated over it and we sorta mutually decided that when a human leads a horse, a horse can be very subtle in "encroaching", if you watch them at liberty sometimes the encroachment is invisible to us but the lead horse will lunge at them and not tolerate it. We surmised that a scooter will not "give" almost imperceibly like a human does when walking along. Anyway, for whatever reason, in about five minutes she was leading my fox everywhere on that scooter and he was a perfect gentleman and when she handed him off to me he stayed that way. Can your daughter lead Tosca for you in the RP?? Janice -- yipie tie yie yo
