Interesting ... I will need to work on this a little. I have a mare I rescued. She is a very, very stressy little horse. She was starved for many, many...
Hi Michelle, Your little mare sounds a lot like my princess, including the background of abuse. TIME, and absolute consistency are the keys I think, and going...
Dear Michelle, Sometimes ,I'm afraid, we are asking to muchespacially with anxious and abused horses, or never trained ones. YouWhat I will say with this...
Doris, That's really interesting. It really allows the horse to get settled. Interestingly I got a note from Kellie Snider (a former Grad Student of Dr Rosales...
Thanks, Laurel. Poor Jedda - she is lucky she found such a wonderful home. That does sound like Jen a lot. She does push buttons purposely, I thought it...
Thank you for your insight, Doris. Jen is not new to me, she has been here for almost 18 months now. I didnt' do anything at all with her, but love her and...
oh, Michelle, I'm sorry for you, for loosing this horse. It's so heart-warming when frightened animals build up confiance in us. Doris bellum gerant alii , tu...
Hey Michelle, I was a little surprised by your reply here. just wasn't what I expected. This is what got me: << She wants to be so close to you, touching you...
Michelle wrote that her spirited mare "wants to touch every single cone she sees ;-) ... She gets so fizzy and excited .... that she forgets to wait for you...
Hi Barbara, ... "keep going, you're doing GREAT!" and thatıs what it is: a keep-going-signal. Many trainer say you need no KGS, if you build duration...
Dear Michelle (and Everyone), ... Counting out loud. It's a training technique Alex taught early on, and I found very helpful for my anxious mare Brittany. In...
Thank you, Doris. We had hoped he would be with us a bit longer, though I never expected that he had much time left. Best, Michelle www.shellyct.blogspot.com ...
Really? Interesting, Elaine! Good suggestions, an I will work on that with Jen. I do ask her to take a step back when I feed her grain, or she will crowd you....
Great idea, Barbara, thank you! I had actually just started this last week, starting some duration on my other mare, Lakota's head down when she is nervous....
Its amazing their concept of counting! They can totally get it. I ride a late-teens Morgan mare in my lessons. It is amazing how that horse knows when 30...
Re: [the_click_that_teaches] Re: AnxietyI have inadvertently (but its a good thing) taught my other mare, Lakota, a KGS. I hadn't noticed it until recently,...
Hey Michelle, I think you would consider the work I did as "formal", because I did focus on that as a task with little else until he was very clear that I may...
Hi Elaine -- Cal does sound so much like Jen! She also has the same leading issues. We do work on this whenever I lead her, but I will admit that I don't...
They do sound very similar. I didn't feel Cal was safe to be around in his distracted state. Not that he did anything but I was pretty fragile at the time. I...
Yep, exactly. All it takes is time and knowledge, right? I think I prefer the somewhat jumpy ones to the stoic ones. At least you know where you stand! I know...
You might want to look in the list archives, I know many people here have gotten fabulous results working on emotional control issues with their horses. Cal...
I never thought of it that way, Elaine. Perhaps that is why it has taken her a year to put on weight, and she still has some to go. Mostly muscling up. She...
Alex often says (or she's said it once or twice and I THINK about it often? Not sure which) that everything is everything else. I think that applies to the...
Good point (again). I hadn't thought of her mental disconnect being directly attributed to her physical one. Hmmmm........... interesting stuff! She's going...
hello Michelle It sounds strange, but children are doing like horses. Frequently mothers are bringing their kids for problems into my consultation, and we...
Hi Doris, << I often thought, that kids with their behaviour take parents to look for "professionnel" help for the kids and end up to find it for themselves>> ...
Hi Elaine Unfortunately they think that the kids need help and that they-the parents- are fine. If you scratch a little bit the tiny surface you'll find the...
I guess its much like "your horse is your mirror", and so are your children. We don't realize how much we affect those around us, by not only our behavior,...
Amanda wrote: Something I do if I feel anxious is ask myself how my feet feel on the ground. I focus on how each foot fall feels and it helps to drop my...
Having problems with message search?
Offline 
Send Email
