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[quote]HolisticHorseWorks (10/24/2009)
Might be his atlas/axis is out or needs some cranial sacral work-look at him head on-is one of his nostrils lower than the other? Eyes set the same on both sides of his head?
Can he do these yoga stretches easily?
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Dear lord. I honestly think you have a very bad case of the "when all you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" syndrome.
I understand you're trying to get people watching your video and interested in your methods, but spamming the board and trying to fix everything with flippin yoga isn't going to help.
Honestly, I was going to check out your videos when you had one original topic, but now I feel you're just pissing people off.
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agreed. stop spamming.
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lolwut (10/20/2009)
The Blocker tie ring does teach a horse to come forward off of pressure.
Well......we use blocker tie rings at my barn, and when I shipped in for a lesson at my coaches barn, I put him in cross ties and he hated it. He couldn't stand still, and freaked out, so.... I can't agree with what you said about the rings.
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| I'm going to say your horse never learned how to tie to begin with if he can't tie with a Blocker. Can you elaborate on 'couldn't stand still' please?
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No, my horse can and likes to be tied using a blocker, but he doesn't like to be tied in crossties. And by not standing still, I mean moving forward, moving backwards, putting his head up, putting his head down.
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So you use one blocker ring to tie with, and expected that to translate into cross ties?
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| I used an old method that Prof. Berry used. Put a sturdy halter on the horse. Take a half inch rope about about twenty feet long and make a slip noose at the end. Take the noose and put around the horse at the back legs and snug. Take the long end of the rope and run this end up through the front legs and through the halter ring. Tie to s sturdy post. Make some noise or something to force the horse back. He will come forward to the posted to relieve the pressure of the rope. I used this method with my gelding and it worked. Some people don't like Prof. Berrys methods but I have used some of them and they work for me.
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| The rope goes around the body of the horse at the point where the back legs start. it runs up between the horses front legs and through the halter and is tied to a sturdy post. I know several people that has used this method including myself and some of the trainers on RFD tv and I don't see where they would break a leg. It worked for me.
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It's not too hard to imagine. You've got the body of the horse wrapped in a rope and the horse either doesn't tie, or he pulls back. Is it really so hard to imagine that the horse could panic, try to pull back, encounter the pressure, and end up scrambling and sitting down or thrashing. If he's tied to something solid, like a wall or a tree, he could leap forward and it it. Tying a horse to anything that doesn't have some sort of give or in a way that doesn't allow the horse to break loose when truly frightened is dangerous to the horse. It's much better for a horse to break his tie and have to be calmed and caught, than to let him panic and struggle until he "learns" or gets hurt. That kind of training is called "forced helplessness" the horse may lean to tie and not pull back, but it's because he's afraid of the consequences, not because he's been taught that it's his job to stand quietly and wait, or to give to pressure even when scared (conditioned response).
I've trained plenty of horses to tie. Foals, older horses who pulled back or pawed or fidgeted when ties, even horses who had been hit while tied, and a couple of semi-feral horses I broke. Probably a good 75-80 horses in all. Not one needed to have ropes put around them to learn,. Some learned faster than others, but I never had a horse take longer than 2-3 days to learn to tie properly, including horses with significant behavioral problems, and I never once used a special halter, tie ring, or body rope. So I just can't be convinced that looping rope around a horse learning to tie is either necessary or safe, sorry.
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