[IceHorses] Re: Prey/Predator

2007-03-13 Thread kim morton
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Robyn Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesn't mean that they won't teach the filly about being a horse but they usually do it in a pretty non-violent way. Here is the reason I have to be careful, she has been in a herd for most of her two years, but when

[IceHorses] Re: Prey/Predator

2007-03-12 Thread kim morton
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, Virginia Tupper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know that Orri is dominant--I'm repeating what his breeder told me and what the barn owner tells me. Orri 'fights' with the other 'top' gelding all the time. I see Orri as soft and gentle. I just wanted

RE: [IceHorses] Re: Prey/Predator

2007-03-12 Thread Robyn Hood
Hi Kim, I don't really know their herd dynamics, they said he might give her trouble. I'm not putting her in there. I would like to incorporate her into my herd and I started yesterday with letting them visit over the gate. I would agree with you not to put her in their herd and I am sure she

RE: [IceHorses] Re: Prey/Predator

2007-03-12 Thread Karen Thomas
I think it works great, there might be a little mugging at first, but that goes away when they figure out this isn't the way to get a treat. Clicker training really gets them on board with whaterever you are trying to do really quickly, you can just see those wheels start to spin. That's the

Re: [IceHorses] Re: Prey/Predator

2007-03-12 Thread Stephanie Caldwell
On 3/12/07, Karen Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or when you need to do something simple, like say, check the pulses in the horse's foot, and he/she wants praise for picking up their foot, or decides to count by pawing, whatever. That simply wears on my nerves. Mine too... I teach the