Keep yourself safe!! As one who has experienced all the downs as well as the soaring ups these girls send our way, I too have sat and cried, I must confess for several days after the last time Jedda kicked out at me and knocked me off my feet. Guess what I was doing with her..... I had her trotting round me at liberty, I was feeling like Klaus Hempfling and Alexander Nevzorov all rolled into one, Jedda was feeling something else quite different!. Up the energy and you up the emotion, especially if it's an activity they could see as pointless and disrespectful. This was 18 months ago.
It sounds as if Grace was responding to the CAT, then the rules changed, and what Jedda is really liking about CAT is the consistency of it. I've taken on board what Dolores is saying about only going to CT when the horse asks for it, and we haven't reached that point with Jedda and other people by a country mile yet. With me she does, but we have a 4 year history behind us and some good stuff attached. Yesterday I thought "Oh, I'll try and run about like Imke Spilker does", guess what again, Jedda was not impressed, it wasn't "play" for her, why did I think she could handle it? she doesn't know how to play even with the other horses, so she went right on the defensive. Not kicking or anything, just the expression on her face was enough!
The main message I got from that kick 18 months ago, was not to take it personally, just think about what happened from Grace's point of view and use it. Most of all, Stay Safe!! you have a date in Saratoga soon remember :-D
Hi all, We had our 14th Cat session with Jedda yesterday, it was slightly less than satisfying as she went back to pinned ears and nose stuck out when Kate got...
Hi Laura, Just like in clicker training, we can get extinction bursts in CAT. I would say that no, you did not need to increase the distance. What you need to...
We had our 14th Cat session with Jedda yesterday, it was slightly less than satisfying as she went back to pinned ears and nose stuck out when Kate got closer...
Hi Dolores, Thanks for that considered reply, I spent a lot of yesterday "thinking" about how to look at our 14th session in strictly CAT terms, and the ...
Laurel, Whoa girl :) ""Don't click the hand touch" when during the CAT process she comes to touch me, but then you are saying I can now offer my hand to her as...
Hi Julie, ... days or a grumpy mood etc- it does not matter the reason but the fact that she is giving the actions then you take care of them ala CAT (even...
Hi Laurel, It hurts us to the core when our fragile flowers turn their rumps on us!!! Particularly when we think we've got the keys to the kingdom!! You've...
Conway, Julie E
Julie.Conway@...
Jul 6, 2009 4:51 pm
I'd like to rephrase a portion of my e-mail: "came after me rearing and striking" I'm not quite sure what was happening, because my back was turned, but out...
Conway, Julie E
Julie.Conway@...
Jul 6, 2009 7:19 pm
Julie!! Keep yourself safe!! As one who has experienced all the downs as well as the soaring ups these girls send our way, I too have sat and cried, I must ...
Laurel, Guess what I was doing with her..... I had her trotting round me at liberty, I was feeling like Klaus Hempfling and Alexander Nevzorov all rolled into...
Conway, Julie E
Julie.Conway@...
Jul 6, 2009 10:56 pm
I know it's hard. But, try to remember that C/T is pressure too. The pressure to succeed sometimes that the horse puts on itself until the steam vent blows. ...
Hi Dolores, "In retrospect which is usually where we find the 20/20, do you thing she had begun to bottle up at the point of headlowering? That's a yes on...
Conway, Julie E
Julie.Conway@...
Jul 7, 2009 6:30 pm
... Two things stand out. One she did not offer head lowering during CAT and second that she threw her head down. It's almost a panic response. I'll put human...
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