This message is from: "Steve Sessoms" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Was "Snow riding":
"Vanessa N Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Also, do you find the need to lunge your horses before you ride them, or are they >>pretty good about starting off again without it? I too have been following Parelli and find him extremely helpful for basic handling. I take it day by day, whether or not I feel it necessary to work them a bit before I climb into the saddle. Some days, as I groom them for a ride, I can tell they are a bit flighty and spooky (Fjordies are horses too). Some days they have been fussing amongst each other and think they will try to include me in their antics by crowding or rubbing or something and I have to put them in their place. I certainly don't want to ride a horse who is looking at me as someone to try to boss, crowd or play with so we go through a round of Parelli games before we go out on the trail. Parelli teaches how to put them in a proper frame of mind on the ground before the work begins. But then, some days as I catch them and groom them, they are looking at me politely with no spook in them and no fussiness. On those days I feel good about just saddling up and heading out. (I also find Parelli to be helpful but too commercial.) Meredith Sessoms Moulton Alabama USA
