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- From: "wwfarm" <wwfarm@wiktel.com>
- To: "Mounted search and rescue" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [MSAR] Alert and Air Scent training
- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 17:43:24 -0700
This post pertains to the further discussion on a
horses "drive" while air scent searching.
The amount of a drive that a horse has varies with the
individual horse. Many factors come in to play when trying
determine which horses have the most "drive". Some influential
factors include training, breeding and even the environment in which
they are kept. ( These factors and others were discussed in
previous post) The same is true with dogs, some just do not have the desire to
search.
Even in the quarter horse breed some horses I have tried have
very little "drive" to find the missing subject but others like some
cow bred quarter horses show a lot of drive. I mean when they catch the
scent drift they pull at the reins and would rather run than walk in order to
find the victim. (I have seen horses go through flooded streams that
were three or four feet deep and ten feet wide on their own
while following a scent
drift.) It is
similar to rope horses that I have trained, inorder to save on the cattle I
train them to first chase and rate a ATV. Some just don't ever build
the desire, than you have the others that when the ATV takes off you
better have a deep seat because they are after it and I mean right now! So in
this case the horse has the desire or "drive" to chase something
moving. In cow horses they call this desire "cow " but really it is just gaming
desire because a good cow horse will just as easily work a flag as a real
cow. This gaming desire shows up in many different breeds of horses.
If the horse has a strong gaming desire he can develop a
strong "drive or hunt desire".
In a previous post in was mentioned that training is
a factor in how the horse goes after a victim, I agree this a
major factor. One away to increase your horses "drive or hunt"
desire is to keep your training secessions short and quit training before the
horse tires of the game. When you keep the training game interesting
and the horse is sure that it is ok that he can act independently of
the rider he will build his "drive" or "hunt"
desire.
TERRY .
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[MSAR] Alert and Air Scent training,
colleen combes, 09/02/2003
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Re: [MSAR] Alert and Air Scent training,
Una Smith, 09/02/2003
- RE: [MSAR] Alert and Air Scent training, colleen combes, 09/02/2003
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
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Re: [MSAR] Alert and Air Scent training,
SARCRNA, 09/03/2003
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[MSAR] Tracking from horseback,
pennbo, 09/03/2003
- Re: [MSAR] Tracking from horseback, Jorene Downs, 09/03/2003
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RE: [MSAR] Alert and Air Scent training,
colleen combes, 09/03/2003
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Re: [MSAR] Alert and Air Scent training,
Jorene Downs, 09/03/2003
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Re: [MSAR] Alert and Air Scent training,
wwfarm, 09/03/2003
- RE: [MSAR] Alert and Air Scent training, colleen combes, 09/03/2003
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Re: [MSAR] Alert and Air Scent training,
wwfarm, 09/03/2003
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Re: [MSAR] Alert and Air Scent training,
Jorene Downs, 09/03/2003
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[MSAR] Tracking from horseback,
pennbo, 09/03/2003
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Re: [MSAR] Alert and Air Scent training,
Una Smith, 09/02/2003
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