Horse&Rider mag competition - Parelli course

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The "prize" for this fabulous competition is a week long Parelli course. The question - "who is the founder of Parelli natural horse training?", and the tie-breaker : in 30 words or less tell us why a Parelli course would benefit you and your horse.
Bahahahaha!
I'm struggling to make my tie breaker less than 30 words. And the answer to the question; I'm torn between putting "a cult leader" or "a complete and utter ******"
 
You must be mistaken, Marydoll. I bow down to our great leader, any non believers shall be hobbled, whacked around the chops with a leadrope clip and denied access to water. Amen.
 
I caught a bit of the parelli programme on horse and country last night, it was awful the poor horse looked so confused as she walked round with her hands on it's cheeks. Weird weird wierd
 
OMG, if they still think that is a prize worth having, they must be desperately behind the times :eek:

How to flog a blind horse in three easy steps, eh ?? Urgh, i feel sick just thinking about the licence to print money that they seem to think they have. :mad:
 
shysmum said:
OMG, if they still think that is a prize worth having, they must be desperately behind the times :eek:

How to flog a blind horse in three easy steps, eh ?? Urgh, i feel sick just thinking about the licence to print money that they seem to think they have. :mad:
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People are buying into it, the question is why ?
 
erm well to me it seems almost cult - like. The way they have so many people giving them sooooo much money, and mooning all over them like love sick puppies. Yup, to me it is some sort of american cult. Deeply,deeply disturbing. Sorry, just my humble point of view.

Oh and if they should want to sue me for my humble point of view, bring it on.
 
Other horse taming courses are available you know - simply look at the Midnight Ramblers Rant thread and join the Adorable Alice Method of Training Horses.

Success guaranteed, free head torch and pocket size scout, few young farmers left, but the tall, handsome or 500 acres plus ones have been snaffled already.
 
shysmum said:
now i doooooo like the thought of a pocket head torch :D
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Only if it is attached to a handsome, wealthy, plenty of acres and horse loving young farmer ! Well, to be honest, I will make do with an older one, at my age I could not keep up with a young one !
 
mmmmm well pass me the young one then, and I'll have a go with that - not going to get much more opportinities like that at my age, haha.
 
well I seem to have been offered a young virile farmer as a possible alternative ? Might have bought the mag if that really was on offer ;) Cash alternative did cross my mind tho - where is this sheebang held, do you get flights/accomodation/training etc paid out in cash instead ??
 
Its held at Stoneleigh, and apparently is worth £1200!!!
And Jeeve, their excuse for "horsemanship" is the last thing that's worth going for. I don't need some redneck to tell me how to beat the "horsenality" out of my animals, or how denying them access to water is a valid training tool, thank you very much!
I'm trying very hard to politely word my tie breaker as such. Maybe they'll be kind and give me the tickets, so I can take my mare and make her sit on PPs neck, whilst I batter him with my home-made Aubergine Stick...
 
To paraphrase Jack Nicholson in Terms of Endearment " I would rather stick needles in my eyes" :D
The poor 'winner' probably thinks he/she will get the Parellis themselves, with a prize 'worth' £1200! And they will get one of the many brainwashed devotees of this
cult- like method.
HOW can it possibly cost that much????
And the answer to the question - wasn't it one of the Dorrance brothers, or Ray Hunt, who were practising these methods long before Mr PP put on his first pair of chaps and Stetson?
 
rhino said:
Anything that expensive has to be good, surely?
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Ahhh. The Emporer's New Clothes?

But it's not exactly new now, is it? Surely the novelty should wearing thin. Very thin, actually, much like the aforementioned emporer's clothes ;)
 
Ray hunt learnt off Tom Dorrance and Pat learnt from Ray and Tom. This was put down on paper as there are so many people out there who have horses who haven't got one bit of common sense in their bodies.

There are a lot of angry people on this forum isn't there?!! Im not saying that hitting the horse with a buckle and starving it of water is right, i believe its wrong but it doesn't just go on in the "Parelli" world you know. I would never slag off "Dressage" riders even though someone local to me is a British Dressage rider who makes her horses bleed from beating and stabbing them with the spurs.....right or wrong? You'll find punishment is in every industry or cult, what ever you want to call it.
 
Carmen1 said:
Ray hunt learnt off Tom Dorrance and Pat learnt from Ray and Tom.
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Tom Dorrance (for whom I have a lot of respect) would turn in his grave at some of the things Pat Parelli does. Tom wasn't into hitting horses with bull snaps! ETA: Or was it Linda who devised the wiggle-wiggle-THUMP manoeuvre (shown so graphically in the Barney video)?

There are a lot of angry people on this forum isn't there?!! Im not saying that hitting the horse with a buckle and starving it of water is right, i believe its wrong but it doesn't just go on in the "Parelli" world you know.
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Anger at these practices, wherever they occur, is perfectly understandable and imo justified.

I would never slag off "Dressage" riders even though someone local to me is a British Dressage rider who makes her horses bleed from beating and stabbing them with the spurs.....right or wrong?
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If condemning abuse helps to stop it happening, then surely it should be done? Remain silent only if it helps the situation.
 
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fburton said:
Tom Dorrance (for whom I have a lot of respect) would turn in his grave at some of the things Pat Parelli does. Tom wasn't into hitting horses with bull snaps! ETA: Or was it Linda who devised the wiggle-wiggle-THUMP manoeuvre (shown so graphically in the Barney video)?


Anger at these practices, wherever they occur, is perfectly understandable and imo justified.

If condemning abuse helps to stop it happening, then surely it should be done? Remain silent only if it helps the situation.
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^^^^Agree^^^^
re- carmen's post- Each to their own but not out of ignorance.

At least by highlighting the concern, ordinary horse people can counteract the propaganda that parelli ,as a proftable advertising customer, is able to buy from the equestrian media.
 
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