CAT stands for Constructional Aggression Treatment. It was originally
developed by Kellie Snyder for her Master's Thesis under the guidance
of Dr Jesus Rosales

After attending a seminar with Dr Rosales and Kellie, I discovered that this
approach may help many horses with deep seated long term fears that have not
been adequately addressed by other methods.

Later, I was able to attend a presentation by another of Dr Rosales students
using the same approach to create feral cats into friendly cats in a very
short time.

The keyword is constructional. CAT is not a desensitizing process. Rather,
it is an operant process where the animal is in total control. The horse or
dog learns a better way to operate it's environment.

Since several people have begun to experiment with this process in horses, I
am opening this list to this discussion for the benefit of horses
everywhere.

There is a list dedicated to CAT. It is not an open list however requiring
the purchase of the DVD seminar. I am a member of that list and will post
from time to time, information that will be relevant to horses and fear.

Dolores Arste
www.zenhorsemanship.com