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I'm not really sure where this thread turned into a pro R+/anti R+ thing... I think those of saying we are uncomfortable with SY (and...

As per my answer in post 128, if you think entering the stable with a rope is the starting point then you are just completely...

Yes yes yes. Good horse centered training looks boring. Makes a dull video. Same reason you can look on YouTube and find 2 million...

That is because people who train ethically do not force a horse over threshold during training; they start from a place the horse is ok...

Nooooooo, OVERWHELMED horses do this!!! Horses who are in a heightened state of stress, or are in a pressured situation. If a horse is...

I worked at a local rescue consistently every week for 3 years and supported another on and off for a year. That's how I got my horse...

Horse will determine exactly what I'd do and when, but in a nutshell with a horse who wasn't confident being handled in the stable, I...

What you are describing are many different behaviours that can all manifest for very different reasons. As "dominance" is not a...

Sorry, the academic in me has to step in! Dominance isn't a character trait as it can't exist in a vacuum. Basically no individual can...

Can't stand him. He floods horses, it isn't training. They never learn what to actually do, just how to avoid punishment. I really find...

SY is (in my opinion) frequently harsh and rushed tho.

I wonder how people would feel about this sort of training if they knew how delicate the structures around the face/poll/neck were. Any...

I just find this so fundamentally unfair to the horse. The "must be fixed now or horse is PTS" is not just a thing that will happen...

I used to argue the case that a short period of time experiencing pressure to lead to a situation where the horse could have feet...

Yeah the timing is poor, the signals are muddy, the "corrections" are WILDLY excessive. Not that I've watched any of it in a few years...