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  • From: no name name none <blindrodie@hotmail.com>
  • To: Mounted Search and Rescue <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [MSAR] walking home?
  • Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:10:47 +0000

Great post Irv.

This could be one of THE best foundation training issues that all horse owners can be a part of, but aren't. When you go down does your horse stop and look at you like, "What are you doing down there!" or do the run all the way home?

I've seen it many times.....MANY (the running off like, I'm FREE I'm FREE!).

It's one of the most fundamental parts of horse training that owners will not or do not take the time and patience to develop. Without it you are a
wreck waiting to happen. NOT good as a MSAR participant!

Plus this kind of relationship opens SO many more possibilities for horse and rider. I can't understand why most (like 98%) owners don't take the time to develop this relationship. Must be our culture...

Jim


From: ilichten1@verizon.net
To: Jorene@CEOates.com; msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:55:52 -0400
Subject: Re: [MSAR] walking home?

Maybe it is your horse.  Like they say there are two kinds of riders, those that have been throwed and those that will be.  I have been separated from my ride a few

times but neither ran home and left me stranded.  Generally they went less than a quarter mile, came back when called by name.  Part of the trust you build with your mount is that he doesn’t want to leave you alone.  And he does know when I am sick or injured and acts differently.  We went unexpectedly into a creek from the bank one day and when we got out he very carefully took me home on verbal command, using a route that avoided trail obstacles, steep grades, etc. Not the usual direct run home, but a walk trot without stopping to graze at the usual spots or being distracted by others in the park.  I have seen otherwise docile trail horses run miles after dumping a rider, so it is you and your horse relationship that make the difference.

 

Let the horse do the thinking—he is sometimes smarter.

Irv Lichtenstein


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Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:30 AM
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