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<blockquote data-quote="Muddyboots" data-source="post: 2301403" data-attributes="member: 63925"><p>Sometimes you have no choice but to smack them to get their attention BUT physical abuse will get you no where with ANY animal especially a horse. Its a collaboration with a horse, you ask/tell a horse what to do and they have to want to do it. Partly to please you but also because they want to do it. They still require discipline but there is a huge difference between discipline and beating the crap out of them. I was a blacksmith for 3 years many moons ago and you learned real fast how to manage and train a horse that wasn't yours. Or else you got your butt handed to you. I had a western block quarterhorse that cow kicked me the first hour I owned him. I "encouraged" him to never do that again and he never did. He would run thru a wall for me which was an indicator of our collaboration. I ended up giving him away many years later since my real professional career had taken off. He was 28 years old, still ran like a 10 year old. Horses can and will try your ability to maintain composure under so many circumstances. One of the reasons I like to use an outfitter is to have the "horse experience" once again. What is really nice is it is like grandkids, have fun and hand them back!<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy :joy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Muddyboots, post: 2301403, member: 63925"] Sometimes you have no choice but to smack them to get their attention BUT physical abuse will get you no where with ANY animal especially a horse. Its a collaboration with a horse, you ask/tell a horse what to do and they have to want to do it. Partly to please you but also because they want to do it. They still require discipline but there is a huge difference between discipline and beating the crap out of them. I was a blacksmith for 3 years many moons ago and you learned real fast how to manage and train a horse that wasn't yours. Or else you got your butt handed to you. I had a western block quarterhorse that cow kicked me the first hour I owned him. I "encouraged" him to never do that again and he never did. He would run thru a wall for me which was an indicator of our collaboration. I ended up giving him away many years later since my real professional career had taken off. He was 28 years old, still ran like a 10 year old. Horses can and will try your ability to maintain composure under so many circumstances. One of the reasons I like to use an outfitter is to have the "horse experience" once again. What is really nice is it is like grandkids, have fun and hand them back!😂 [/QUOTE]
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