Recent content by Roggybabe

What a sad story this is. Not because of the Pony's behaviour but the solutions offered to the problem. Put To Sleep??????? That sounds a most drastic and uneccessary action. Surely as horse lovers you can come up with a better solution? Have you never heard of retraining? To begin...

Surely at the end of the day there is only one correct method of StartingTraining Horses? If at the end of the day if you have produced an obedient, safe, submissive, flexible, happy and fit horse then you have discovered that Holy Gail of horse training. What label you choose to apply to...

I said I wouldn't Post again but there has been so many sensible comments made I can't resist it. When you consider the Dam and her Foal, how does the Dam control her little one? She uses visual pressure to move the Foals feet around and so the Foal realises that her Mum is charge. With...

OK if you feel giving it the Tag NH does that mean you are against it just because of the tag even tho' it works?

I have to admit I have never seen Max describe himself as NH horseman.

Hi I am a Newbie here and have been reading the Threads associated with Richard Maxwell and to be honest I am a bit surprised at shall we call it the "Shorted Sightedness" of some of the comments. Max's, or in fact any behaviourists methods aren't intended to be a cure all for any...

How's about "Starlight". Rog