Just to cheer everyone up on a wet July Sunday morning, if you could do with a really, really good giggle, go to this site
http://thesecondsight.blogspot.com/2007/02/worshipping-at-temple-of-mammon.html - look up "levitating horses" ... took me a while to work out what the site was all...
PRIDE... DIGNITY... HUMILIATION...all the same emotion just in differing levels of positive, neutral, or negative. P.P. HIMSELF COMMENTED that he stopped and PRESERVEDM CATWALKS dignity... (MY ARSE...) the horse had been bullied and man handled for hours... no dignity there... but...
MARTLIN... just got to say... I have loved every post you have written... you are fantastic... would so love to meet you... you make me smile every day... and know and take comfort from that there are still, thankfully, plenty of lovely people like you out there!
xxx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j25pS6ixWk
the guy in the blue shirt and white jumper draped fetchingly over his shoulder is James Roberts
the day after.... watch to the end
I defy anybody on this whole thread, to watch the video of Barney, being abused, yanked about, confused and humiliated, to explain to me what the "person" abusing the one eyed and disadvantaged horse was "supposed" to get out of that session of abuse???
Please explain to me, so that I can...
and dear you, you should not put yourself down... you have just shown, in that one small sentence how SUPERIOR your knowledge is...
It is all about circus tricks and cheque books - and you are so so above it...
Well done you... Respect!
Monty Roberts was on the right track... always...
He started with the belief that "things could be done differently" read his biography...
SADLY... money grabbing morons have followed in his wake, and not only used his knowledge, experience and ideas, but EVEN his name...
James Roberts...
WELL DONE a "natural horseman/woman" - but died you wear a stetson, and spurs and levis? and have a lot of people watching you, who had to write cheques??? I think not...
Well done you, and you have my respect and admiration....
This is the BIG turning point for the Parelli money...
did you write a cheque.... Cos that is the only thing all this garbage is about...
It is about fooling people... (predominantly women, who are "taken" with cowboys in stetsons and levis, with spurs...
The "cheque" is the be-all-and-end-all... Thank goodness you saw sence... And relied on...
DON'T BE FOOLED BY ANY PARELLI PRACTICIONER
"Some" choose to work only on horses which will give a good audience, which they have already practiced on... it is all about money spinning and little else... and when faced with a very, very difficult problem suggest euthanasia... and we have...