>> I saw Julie goodnight on tv recently. what everyone else calls >> "desensitization"-- She calls "bombardment". I thought that was >> interesting. and an apt way of putting it. If you think of it as >> bombardment then maybe you would be less likely to go past the point >> where the horse is no longer using the thinking part of its brain but >> the reacting part, a useless learning phase.
That's an interesting distinction, too many people want to do too much, too fast. When there's too much, too soon, the horse may either shut-down, or try to flee. Neither is effective. >> was from a 2 year old green race horse bolting for the barn and being so >> mindless with terror he tried to go between two poles so close together >> there would be no way a horse could pass thru them, and he was at a >> gallop. That was mindless panic. I would think Theodore was in a >> mindless panic and I wonder why. Thats what a true bolt is, mindless >> panic. I just can't imagine how and why any Icelandic would do a TRUE bolt. They are such easy, gentle souls at heart. Karen Thomas, NC
