permaculture

["Richard Gay" <willbonds@cfl.rr.com>]

I also read that, found it interesting; also read "The Body Language of
Horses."

Traditional trainers (including the one I use) caution against this
technique; it lulls the uninitiated into thinking that they have control of
the horse at that point, and puts them at significant risk of injury for
lack of real horse understanding.

A half-hour in a round pen won't make you the real alpha horse; you haven't
fought the animal over food and mates yet.  The exercise with the goose was
different, and the goose doesn't weigh 1200 pounds.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marsha Hanzi" <hanzibra@svn.com.br>
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: "I'm the Alpha Goose now!": works with horses, too...


> I just read  the book "The man who Listens to Horses" where  the author
> learned to  tame and train young horses by imitating the  body language of
> horses he observed in the wild-- no whips, no trauma, complete trust
between
> man and animal.
>
> Marsha
>
>
>