How do you know if you're a "natural horsemanship" geek

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This is how you (and everyone else) will know you're a NH geek:-

You talk about it, constantly, and its your special gift to be able to "personality-type" every other horse & rider combination on the yard.

Your idea of bliss is going to (yet another) Parelli workshop.

Your special idea of bliss is to take an unbelieving friend, coz that way you'll hopefully make another disciple.......

Your horse is barefoot, treeless, bitless, and can demonstrate join-up and all the Parelli games........ basically because that's all you ever do with it. However you never actually ride it, as you know that you just need to keep working on the groundwork and ridden work will come later.

Your male pin-ups are Michael Peace and Monty Roberts.

When you're with your horse and encounter a problem; your brain automatically engages "think equus" and you think what Monty Roberts/Michael Peace would do if they were riding your horse.

You had an argument with your OH the other day; it was all because you'd told him that he wasn't being an effective herd leader and you both needed to do some "bonding" and learn "join up".

When you're not actually doing NH with your horse, you're practising join up and Parelli games with the dog/cat, kids........ and OH if you're stuck.

You offered a friend a lift in your car the other day: they saw your Parelli stick, long rope and halti and declined politely, saying it was OK they'd get the bus.

All the books/DVD's are to do with NH. You simply don't read or watch anything else.

You've practically bankrupted yourself on attending various NH workshops; you want to go to the next Monty Roberts demo but know you can't afford it, so you've told OH a friend has offered to pay for you as she owes you a favour. Then you go on-line and pay with your credit card.

At work you were asked to do your yearly self-appraisal....... phrases like "good herd leader", "dominant mare" and "joined-up" kept creeping in.

At the yard you talk incessantly about NH; so everyone else avoids you like the plague. You hardly notice, but you yearn for them to convert and find enlightenment like you have.
 
When you're not actually doing NH with your horse, you're practising join up and Parelli games with the dog/cat, kids........ and OH if you're stuck.

Wait - it works on cats???!?

Why did no one tell me sooner? There is hope after all!
 
When you're not actually doing NH with your horse, you're practising join up and Parelli games with the dog/cat, kids........ and OH if you're stuck.

Wait - it works on cats???!?

Why did no one tell me sooner? There is hope after all!

I'm reliably told, though, that clicker training doesn't work on OHs. I did get mine to do the ironing for me last week and rewarded him with a freshly made cupcake... I managed to refrain from clicking at him though!

TBH I'd be surprised if it worked on cats - by the time they're born they've already mastered the "not bothered" look...
 
I'm reliably told, though, that clicker training doesn't work on OHs. I did get mine to do the ironing for me last week and rewarded him with a freshly made cupcake... I managed to refrain from clicking at him though!

TBH I'd be surprised if it worked on cats - by the time they're born they've already mastered the "not bothered" look...

But mine have me outnumbered!
<wails and hands out the tuna>
 
Or, now you might want to make sure your seated, as I understand this might be shocking to some ... Perhaps best not to be drinking tea, I'd hate to be responsible for any liquid damaged keyboards ;)

You can quietely go about NH not on a mission to talk about, enlightened or convert others. I don't know about anyone else but in between my horse, my job, OH & social life, I don't have time to care what other people do with their horses.

You can do groundwork one day & quite happily school or go for a hack the next day, actually riding said horse. Heaven forbid, I might actually ride bitless one day & bitted the next ... Because hey, why on earth not?!

You could actually ride with non NH people too and discuss anything from my hangover, my friend's pervy boss to the latest dodgy date another friend went on. Sometimes, we actually go and ride & not talk horses, let alone the latest Parelli DVD.

My handbag contains the latest issue of Glamour rather than any horsey lit, but I look forward to H&H as much as the Parelli magazine. My Sky + does have Parelli recordings, right between Made In Chelsea, Law & Order UK & First dates.

Why bankrupt myself with paying for clinics, when I go to watch a lot of cool NH demo's for free. In fact, a course of clinics I'm participating in costs less than one of my friend's dressage lessons. More money left over for nights out, clothes shopping & er, the odd treat for my horse (who incidently is barefoot because it works out cheaper than shoes ... And hey, who wants to throw money away).

Gosh dammit, I'm so dissapointed, I'm obviously not a true NH horsewoman ... I best go find myself another clique, sharpish.
 
Or, now you might want to make sure your seated, as I understand this might be shocking to some ... Perhaps best not to be drinking tea, I'd hate to be responsible for any liquid damaged keyboards ;)

You can quietely go about NH not on a mission to talk about, enlightened or convert others. I don't know about anyone else but in between my horse, my job, OH & social life, I don't have time to care what other people do with their horses.

You can do groundwork one day & quite happily school or go for a hack the next day, actually riding said horse. Heaven forbid, I might actually ride bitless one day & bitted the next ... Because hey, why on earth not?!

You could actually ride with non NH people too and discuss anything from my hangover, my friend's pervy boss to the latest dodgy date another friend went on. Sometimes, we actually go and ride & not talk horses, let alone the latest Parelli DVD.

My handbag contains the latest issue of Glamour rather than any horsey lit, but I look forward to H&H as much as the Parelli magazine. My Sky + does have Parelli recordings, right between Made In Chelsea, Law & Order UK & First dates.

Why bankrupt myself with paying for clinics, when I go to watch a lot of cool NH demo's for free. In fact, a course of clinics I'm participating in costs less than one of my friend's dressage lessons. More money left over for nights out, clothes shopping & er, the odd treat for my horse (who incidently is barefoot because it works out cheaper than shoes ... And hey, who wants to throw money away).

Gosh dammit, I'm so dissapointed, I'm obviously not a true NH horsewoman ... I best go find myself another clique, sharpish.

LOL This!!! :D
 
Or, now you might want to make sure your seated, as I understand this might be shocking to some ... Perhaps best not to be drinking tea, I'd hate to be responsible for any liquid damaged keyboards ;)

You can quietely go about NH not on a mission to talk about, enlightened or convert others. I don't know about anyone else but in between my horse, my job, OH & social life, I don't have time to care what other people do with their horses.

You can do groundwork one day & quite happily school or go for a hack the next day, actually riding said horse. Heaven forbid, I might actually ride bitless one day & bitted the next ... Because hey, why on earth not?!

You could actually ride with non NH people too and discuss anything from my hangover, my friend's pervy boss to the latest dodgy date another friend went on. Sometimes, we actually go and ride & not talk horses, let alone the latest Parelli DVD.

My handbag contains the latest issue of Glamour rather than any horsey lit, but I look forward to H&H as much as the Parelli magazine. My Sky + does have Parelli recordings, right between Made In Chelsea, Law & Order UK & First dates.

Why bankrupt myself with paying for clinics, when I go to watch a lot of cool NH demo's for free. In fact, a course of clinics I'm participating in costs less than one of my friend's dressage lessons. More money left over for nights out, clothes shopping & er, the odd treat for my horse (who incidently is barefoot because it works out cheaper than shoes ... And hey, who wants to throw money away).

Gosh dammit, I'm so dissapointed, I'm obviously not a true NH horsewoman ... I best go find myself another clique, sharpish.

LIKE
I thought I was NH, but as I don't follow Monty Roberts or Parelli I've clearly just been deluding myself
 
Ha! Perhaps we could be deluded, obviously not NH people together?!

But then we'd have to start a whole other thread just to make sure we actually meet the requirements of that clique & make sure we're doing it right to avoid another identity crisis, such as this. What a quandry, eh?! :D
 
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