Parelli = Horse-Man-Sh*T

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Oh yes Linda, your love of horses and your affinity with them really shines through here.....remind me to whack you repeatedly in the face with a metal clip if I ever get the "pleasure" of meeting you.

Horse-Man-Sh*t

Natural horsemanship???....Outright animal abuse I'd say
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Go on Parelli people, please try and defend this one, I can't wait to hear what you come out with
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Blimey what is going on here... What is she even trying to achieve with the poor horse, I don't understand
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And surely if that was some sort of "problem" horse it would have kicked her in the head after about 30 seconds of that kind of treatment??!
 
I really hope next time she is doing that, the horse isnt quite so well natured + jumps on her head. If she ever did that to my mare she would have her head kicked in without a doubt. People only use this crap as a crutch because they cant handle their horses properly. There is no way you could every build a partnership with a horse with that kind of "training" . Utter B*****ks
 
What's its real title?
Lesson 1 How to make your horse head shy?

What on earth is going on? - I understand the underlying problem - ie horse interested in whats going on and not listening to its "handler" but tbh there did appear a lot to be going on.
 
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I really hope next time she is doing that, the horse isnt quite so well natured + jumps on her head. If she ever did that to my mare she would have her head kicked in without a doubt. People only use this crap as a crutch because they cant handle their horses properly. There is no way you could every build a partnership with a horse with that kind of "training" . Utter B*****ks

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Ditto that one! Mine would just dissapear off into the distance - hopefully it would be just at the point that the leadrope is wrapped around her hand.... then she would be joining him without any choice!
 
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Lesson 1 How to make your horse head shy?


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That was my first thought too.

There are better ways to gain your horses attention than that!
 
What on earth is she doing!!! Appart from making a lovely looking horse scared of her hand, head-shy and probs eventually scared of people. Stupid woman.
 
I'm not a Parelli follower but this horse was showing a lack of manners/respect and to be fair she did take the pressure off when the horse responded appropriately.

I was at a Carl Hester demo some years ago and he made the comment that for 23 hours a day the horse can basically do what it wants but for the one hour he is ridden he should listen to the rider.

A fair number of spooky horses don't listen to the rider which causes more of a problem.

Having said that I am sure the Parelli's won't be thrilled at this video being posted.
 
I like bits of parelli, natural horsemanship and the old school techniques to be honest. But there is no way on earth I would defend that at all! Was that Linda P in that video then?
Whoever it was their actions were excessive and totally unnecessary. The poor horse was not given enough time to respond. I don't think it even understood what was being asked of it either. The force was excessive and the horse looked scared. It even s*** itself out of fear I reckon as it didn't look like it did it because of exercise. Horse was turned on too tight circles as well.
The woman's actions and body language looked as though the force was being exerted through anger and frustration rather than a meaningful training session which I believe you can actually achieve in some aspects of natural horsemanship.
But that was certainly not the case here. That video was a disgrace
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I think you do waggle the rope in Parelli to get the horses attention. But only gently and you certanly don't wack the horse over the bloomin head or on the bum. I think i should send her one of my two. If she tried that with Lucy or Herbie they would kill her. It's idiots/horse abusers like her that give natural horsemanship a bad name and put so many people off it. It does have it's place but that's not natural horsemanship thats natural horse torture.
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"choose their victims"?? meaning what exactly? they go out + pic a well natured horse so they can abuse it without it trying to fight back?!!!!! because of course that makes them look like great horsemen!!!
 
that was horrible, that looked like it was being done in temper. Poor horse, he just looked confused and frightened. I have said before that me and my mare were helped at the beginning with Parelli and she is fantastic now. But I can assure you, there was nothing like that went on. If it had, i would have been outta there pretty damned quick. what was all the smacking with her hand in its face?
What a horrible woman, i wonder what her explanation of all that would be.
 
She's trying to get the horse to focas on her and not look around at what is going on around it. She's beating it in to submission.
Get it to focas on where it's next beating is coming from.
Sorry this video has realy p***ed me off.
 
What i find really strange is the way her hat thing covers her eyes up and she isnt even looking at the horse half the time.... I dont understand why she is doing this as you would normally act like this when you take the pressure off the horse as this is submissive style behaviour.... no wonder the poor horse was confused.

Can you imagine if we all started to do this at the next show we attend? TBH with all of mine i give them a good 20 mins "plonker" time before tacking them up and starting to settle them into a "work" mentality. If i behaved like this with any of my 3 - i would probably be eating a bit of hoof, or i would not be able to get the bridles on !
 
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That was Linda Parelli herself

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It was? Good. Shows her for what she is...

That's one confused horse - Linda was lucky he was such an amiable type. A more dominant horse would have walked all over her. I have no idea what she was trying to achieve apart from make herself look like she has about as much horse sense as an ipod. Stupid, pointless woman.
 
Parelli = crap!!!! I have seen them do this lots of times and I find it hard to watch as it makes me so angry, it is blatant abuse!! The only thing this dumb creature is teaching this horse is how to be head shy and to totally distrust people - every time the poor animal comes near her it gets whacked - WTF?!!!! And wiggling a rope in in the poor animals face - if someone did that to me I'd knock their block off!!
It's like the darn Monty Roberts/Kelly Marks lot, I don't think I've ever seen someone like that who really has no clue what they are doing and manage to screw up so many horses!!!
If I've ever gone to see a horse that has been "trained" in any of this drivel I offer a tenth of the asking price as it means the horse has to be taken back to square one and started from scratch!!! And I won't sell to anyone who uses any of these methods - these methods seem to attract quick fix people and novice owners who think they are doing the right thing and it's all so lovely!!
Another thing I hate are those string "be nice halters" - if the horse is anything but nice half it's face gets ripped off like cheese wire - a chifney or wire bit would be kinder, but as it is marketed with clever names people buy them. The carrot stick is another prime example - it's a STICK - fullstop, if I sold cattle prods for horses and called them love kisses or some such name I'm sure they'd buy them!!!!
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Sorry but it's like watching someone hitting a puppy or throwing a cat off a roof - it makes my blood boil!!!!
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That was bullying a horse into submission, she may as well have had a whip and been beating it, the horse was clearly licking and chewing and totally confussed by what he was meant to do and was in fact looking to his herd for support and comfort he was giving her every submissive sign possible but did not know what she wanted as when he looked to her, and stood although fidgeting still she walloped him on the bum, so why on earth would he want to be with her (who hurts him) or his herd.

Where was the gentleness, understanding and mutual respect and why for goodness sake a chain? I understand the rattle, but surely not as a method of punishment.

Sad video.
 
Hey! Their words not mine hence the inverted commas. This came from a well respected horseman who admitted to having a meltdown in public, lived to regret it and learned from it.

Not quite "a good natured horse etc" but they know their psycology and are know which ones they can get away with and those they cant.

Some of the other stuff going on in the Parelli camp would make your hair curl. And no it is not up for discussion on an open forum. Safe to say I prefer to stay away from it.
 
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I'm not a Parelli follower but this horse was showing a lack of manners/respect and to be fair she did take the pressure off when the horse responded appropriately.

Having said that I am sure the Parelli's won't be thrilled at this video being posted.

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The horse quite clearly didn't understand what was being asked of it - hell it took me three watches before I figured out that making it as headshy as possible was actually supposed to be a constructive move to get the horse to pay attention...I dunno about you but I can get my horses to pay attention by asking them to back up off a cluck and disengaing quarters, moving feet...and mine are youngsters!!
Poor bloody thing was trying to get back to it's owner and out of the way of the maniac whacking it constantly on the face with a metal clip (in the way of Parelli if they don't get it, ask louder and then physically up the pressure to unbearable) I really don't see at which point she took the pressure off - her posture and voice remained aggressive throughout?

Then near the end you could see the poor horse had zoned out completely and shut down as a defence mechanism - something you see with so many horses treated this way.
 
Pointless exercise whatever it was and a sure fire way to make a horse headshy and have an issue with things near its head.
 
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I'm not a Parelli follower but this horse was showing a lack of manners/respect and to be fair she did take the pressure off when the horse responded appropriately.

I was at a Carl Hester demo some years ago and he made the comment that for 23 hours a day the horse can basically do what it wants but for the one hour he is ridden he should listen to the rider.

A fair number of spooky horses don't listen to the rider which causes more of a problem.

Having said that I am sure the Parelli's won't be thrilled at this video being posted.

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Agree that the horse was looking around, but I wouldn't say s/he was particularly "spooky". Even if it was, Ms Parelli's techniques were hardly effective. The poor (and very tolerant) horse had no idea what was being asked of it. Surely the better tactic is to work the horse in a way it is used to and give it something to think about other than what's going on around it?! As others have said, it seems a sure way to make the horse headshy and nervous of new situations...
 
I am definitely NOT a fan a parelli, I have done the odd join up with a quirky mare but this is just something else.....I had to force myself to watch it twice. This horse did not know what she was asking of it, I did not know what she was asking of it using those methods...and she damn well isn't going to get it!! The poor horse just zoned out.

I know what you mean about picking their subjects...any other horse would have reared, struck out or tried to have buggered off very quickly! They pick the nice natured ones by the looks of it.

If I had offered my horse up for this (NEVER!!!!!!) I would have taken my horse off her and seen how she liked a rope hitting her in the face constantly!!!
Whenever free parelli DVD's are in magazines or newspapers....they go in the bin.
 
Thats awful, good way to make a horse head shy. I can't imagine that the poor horse actually knew what she was trying to achieve there. Not a parelli fan anyway, all that rope waggling looks irritating to the horses.
 
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