Recent content by AengusOg

Sorry; someone has given your horse conflicting messages. Good luck with him.

Sorry; someone has probably given the horse conflicting messages. Good luck with him.

It sounds to me as if you've given your horse so many conflicting messages, that he now just hangs around with two feet on the ramp to see what his options are...then he simply uses them all up and refuses to load. If you're in Scotland I could help you. Otherwise there are plenty of people who...

Be a proactive handler, rather than a reactive handler. Communicate through the halter.

If I were you, I'd not be thinking so much about riding your mare at this point. I think she'd benefit from a month of ground work and short walks out in hand. This will let you assess her, and will build trust and mutual understanding between you. If, after you've spent 20 hours or so working...

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Don't hang onto her. Immediately she starts to rear, let the rope go slack. Horses rear in response to hard hands, and if you give them something to resist they will resist it. A horse must be taught to yield to pressure from the halter.

Prick.

In all my years alive I've never heard the fox being referred to as 'Toby'.

The simplest way is to teach the horse to yield his head and neck away, firstly from physical pressure, then from remote pressure using assertive body language. Once this is established, the horse can then be asked to go forward and, having learned to move away from the handler with his fore...

Nope. That's not how negative reinforcement works at all.

I had a wee peek at your other posts...I think the hunt may be the least of your problems. I'm just saying I would rather have a well trained horse than one which behaved through fear of consequences.

Far better to train.

It'll be the fear of pain.

It's maybe you on his back, doing something which is worrying him, then?