How often do you shout or raise your voice when dealing with your horse?

he will get the odd 'oi' and sharp clap of hands if he starts pawing (very rare and only if I am talking to someone and he gets bored!) he knows he is being told 'enough' and stops! He very occasionally puts quite a buck in and then I will say his name in a loud grr stern way but it's not really a shout more a deep voice telling off! Don't really like shouting around horse it tends to just wind them up imo
 
I use my voice when I ride, we almost have full conversations and she gets it I feel my voice is more benefical to us than a schooling whip.

people must think I am mad I say things like 'we are not discussing this just listen' , ' there is no room for negotiation' . ' now that wasnt hard was it' , then she gets loads of praise and a good pat and I feel this makes our ride more relaxed and stress free just by adjusting the tone of my voice. It works for us,
 
Shouting - only at the welsh thing when he is goig for my old horse, though this hardly ever happens now they are segregated!

Talking - all the time - don;t be so ridiculous, they are just people walking, you're not scared of people, its a dog, you've seen a dog before, etc etc
 
I won't often shout but occasionally I find it useful to get their attention back on me when they start getting a bit lairy.

I wouldn't if the horse was genuinally worried about something i'm just talking about the times they think it would be more fun to run straight over the top of me as their friends are running around etc, etc. Mine are actually all pretty well mannered however they are all quite sharp horses and by no means perfect ;) I do find it quite an affective way of to quickly getting back their focus as i'd rather that than hauling and tugging at them.

I hate it when people are constantly shouting it stresses me and my horses out but luckily the people on my yard currently are a good bunch and not the bawling types.
 
I try not too, but sometimes just altering my tone doesn't work. Phil has a puncture wound atm, and I understand it hurts but I have to clean it. He prats about, and so I admit, I have shouted at him to "Stand still!" but after doing this yesterday I cried because I felt bad :o
 
We used to have this woman on our yard (the same one who made someone vomit over their keyboard earlier) who used to shout "OH, YOU'RE A DIRTY BUGGER!! LOOK AT THE MESS IN YOUR STABLE!!" I used to think "Come up a bit earlier to turn him out i.e. not at 10.30 on weekends.....or pay someone to turn him at at 6.30". Gah!
 
It is rarely necessary for me to shout at my horses when in-hand however I run a number of large herds and I occasionally have to intervene and shout over to them to stop when they are having little tiffs in the fields. They listen and incidents are avoided.
 
Dancing Queen said:
I dont shout or raise my voice - the only thing it does is to upset them even more.
Instead I alter the tone of my voice to indicate how i approve/disapprove of behaviour.
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This. And body language.

I talk to them all the time....especially the arab when out hacking- he's still a bit green. You can actually feel him relax when you reassure him :)
 
With my (new) gelding, I tend to keep up a running commentary as he seems to relax (or I've hummed tunes and things too). People would think I was mad if they heard me "I had an email from your old owner yesterday. He was asking how you are settling in. Isn't that nice?". Yes, well.....
 
I shouted a paniced "STOP!", at her once, when we were in an out of control race with a couple of geldings.
Bless her she did as I shouted......immediatly!!!
I fell off!!

Shan't be doing that again.;):D:D
 
I shouted rather a lot at the welsh sec a at the weekend. Son had spent 15 minutes trying to catch her while she ran rings round him. She is very bright with a great sense of humour but once he tried to put her bridle on she suddenly became EXTREMLY headshy:mad: I started shouting from where I was as I walked towards her telling her she was being an arse and to Beep pack it in and stand still like a proper 14 year old pony . I continued the diatribe until I reached her then said put your head down now. She instantly lowered her head accepted the bit and then followed me like a little lamb. Those cheeky eyes peeping out from under that forelock sneeking glances at my son, she is a great character and we love her but I cant always leave my 14 year old to deal with her because she just loves to have a game:):D
 
If I am schooling I am known to get fits or tourettes or however you spell it when i get frustrated! Not that i suffer from the condition but there is often quite a lot of 'where's your *******ing head??' and random things like that. Not in a super shouty way as there are kids on our yard, but kind of loud out of frustration really. I swear she swears back at me sometimes (the nag - 'its where you are *******ing forcing me to put it etc) and quite often I am sure she rolls her eyes. Its not anger though its frustration and it never seems to upset her.

I wail a lot too, with big tears, on occassions 'why are you so mean to me I love you but generally only in the privacy of her stable in case people think I am mad :)
 
The word NO gets used quite loudly but thats about it ..... that or a sharp AH

I shouted at the dog the other day as he was dancing round my mare yapping little s**t he's new and about to learn what being kicked feels like I think and she just looked at me with a " I didn't do anything" look .... I had to say sorry :-(
 
The only thing (touch wood) that my boy does to wind me up is occasionally snatching his feet away when I'm picking them out or moving his legs when I'm bandaging so I have to start the whole thing again! I don't shout but raise my voice and say 'PONY' and he'll stop
 
Youngster? frequently atm. Normally just raising my voice when I shout his name has the desired impact. Old mare - never, she doesn't deserve it and would be highly stressed if someone started yelling at her.

And carefully when yelling at my dogs. My old bitch is totally unrepentant. Younger boy can't bear raised voices and gets very stressed. Both are rescues so if I need to tell off the older dog, I make sure younger ones aren't around!
 
I don't shout apart from when calling up from the field.

In a dangerous situation where I need my horse focused on me I would raise my voice, but not in an alarming fashion or out of anger, just to get the horses attention if need be.
 
Waffles said:
I hadn't thought of shouting when calling him in the field! Yeah, I do that.....

Some owners seem to enjoy raising their voices as soon as they come onto the yard shouting to their horse (who is in the stable) "HELLO MY BABY GIRL/BOY. HOW ARE YOU TODAY? <owner makes pretend neighing noises to the horse> MUMMY LOVES YOU AND IS GOING TO GIVE YOU AN EXTRA BIG FEED TODAY!!! BUT FIRST SHE"S GOING TO RIDE YOU SO YOU DON"T GET A BADDY TUMMY!!!" I dunno, maybe I'm premenstrual or something....
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Perhaps their horse is slightly deaf, I know owners who have to talk loudly just to get their horses to hear them, it is either that or not talk at all.
 
Waffles said:
I hadn't thought of shouting when calling him in the field! Yeah, I do that.....

Some owners seem to enjoy raising their voices as soon as they come onto the yard shouting to their horse (who is in the stable) "HELLO MY BABY GIRL/BOY. HOW ARE YOU TODAY? <owner makes pretend neighing noises to the horse> MUMMY LOVES YOU AND IS GOING TO GIVE YOU AN EXTRA BIG FEED TODAY!!! BUT FIRST SHE"S GOING TO RIDE YOU SO YOU DON"T GET A BADDY TUMMY!!!" I dunno, maybe I'm premenstrual or something....
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These type of people drive me nuts! I know of one person who does this constantly in a sing-song voice. She never stops. I actually think it is an attempt to hide their nervousness. Her horse has no respect for her and is completely switched off to her.

Personally, I tend to growl rather than shout.
 
Ned can be quite a pain to handle, but I find I can't shout. Not just at horses, but I'm a very quiet person.
He gets a nice "Good boy!" or "That's my man!" When he's good, in a nice positive voice and a not so nice "OI!" Or "Ned!" when he's being silly.
 
Fairly frequently. He gets an OI or told to remember his manners. Murphy very much is a give an inch and he'll take a mile type on the ground and you really have to keep on top of him and be very firm, otherwise you'll quickly find yourself skiing along behind him to the nearest patch of grass.

When ridden, he quite often gets a C'MON MURPHY MOOOOOVE! and GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR, which does help as he seems to realise I am vaguelly serious. And a 'HUUUUUUP' in front on a jump means he'll take off rather than chipping in an extra stride and ending up underneath the jump.
 
Never. I am lucky though, in that she came to me with manners to die for.

Very occasionally I use my strict 'school teacher' voice, I used it to get her out of the field when the lock up units behind her field set on fire and it was like being in a war zone.
Occasionally I use it to ask her to wait sometimes, so that she keeps her exceptional manners:)
 
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