> that said, i do not know how horses are trained to do this; i > discovererd it entirely by accident (stjarni also loves having his ears > petted and played with better than anything....)
well see Vicka? This frustrates me. How can you brag on how someone trained your horse when you have no idea HOW it was trained to do a certain thing. You just idolize and objectify someone based on... what?? How can you tout Starnji's excellent training when you didn't see him being trained to do this? This baffles me. Not picking on you personally, but i see this so much. And as one who has seen how horses have been cruelly trained, with my own eyeballs, and then see how they turn out... you know they dont all turn out shivering cowering rehab wrecks, most actually turn out to be animatrons, stepford horses, just churning along looking neither left nor right, yes master, whatever you say master, please dont hurt me master... I see literally hundreds and hundreds of horses like this every year. Only one in a million will fight you, most horses will just take it and shut down til they break down actually.... The only horse I own that I can brag on training 100% is my tivar, trained by Shirley and Karen at her house in NC. That Shirley with her quiet kindness and know how to teach a horse what it needs firmly and quietly combined with Karen's will and enthusiasm about getting inside a horse's head and discerning its needs after it has gone sour from other trainers... he was just a lucky guy cause let me tell you something about my Teev, he is like no by god, aint gonna take, I will go down fighting, and as the icelanders say thats one for the stewpot over there and over here its one that goes from home to home until its shot between the eyes after maiming somebody. I dont brag on anybodys training results unless I have seen the process. that would be like bragging on Amish trained horses. You see it on dreamhorse all the time "trained by the Amish!" and people from there go oh my gosh, nobody beats a horse and runs them into the ground like the Amish... Janice-- even good horses have bad days sometimes.
