All of that snorting, it's just like an algebra problem. We're going to give him a job. By giving him a job, I keep his mind active. |
And their first instinctual reaction is to flee. Everything we do in education is to teach the horse to stop, stand still — You're in doubt, stand still. |
I know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem, an inconvenience is losing a job. A problem is a spinal cord injury. |
My aids, or my commands to the horse, should not be visible to the naked eye. It's kind of like when you and I are talking. We're supposed to just talk in a normal conversation and not yell. A horse is no different from us. They don't want us yelling at them, verbally or physically. |
She's dropped, and see how he's standing quiet? He didn't take off. In a normal situation, they take off, but these horses are taught that if that line of communication is broken — if anything is abnormal — stop. |