When you think about it, fences and ropes are the two biggest causes of accidents – the two biggest causes of injury and fright and even terror in horses – they are even the biggest $ cost too. Have you paid a vet bill for a fence-caused leg injury recently? And watching them in that much pain is just awful.
Apply that world class Feel from your last lesson to make your horse safe from fences and ropes:
1. RELEASE – of an old rope trauma that will remove another big layer of cumulative fear and could be the big breakthrough for some horses that will improve your riding together into the stratosphere.
2. RE-LEARN – a new way of giving to the rope, so that if your horse gets caught in a rope or a fence, there will be no new trauma.
3. RE-PROGRAM – that learning into muscle memory and have it on AUTO-PILOT.
What you will see on this video is the first two stages. The RELEASE of a fright imprint from an accident that happened just minutes before the camera rolled. Young Boots had got his leg caught in a rope that was around his neck, had been spinning around and around with his leg in the air and was clearly terrified.
Then you will see the RE-LEARN stage as this wonderful little horse is learning to give to a rope in such a way that he will be able to give to a rope gently when he steps on it – and give to a rope if he ever gets tangled in it.
… AND even more importantly, he will be able to give to a fence if he is caught in it.
… AND EVEN MORE IMPORTANTLY STILL – this world class horsewoman with world class “feel”, is an ordinary working Mum who sees her horses less than most – sometimes only once a month.
There are two videos to help you with this Lesson.
Click here to revisit the Profound healing opportunity in waiting for your horse to lick and chew.
The panicked response that a horse has from standing on their lead rope is damaging to their joints as well as their confidence and is completely unnecessary. The video you just watched of Melissa and young Boots is exactly the lesson to give ANY horse, to achieve the confidence that Kathy’s horse Elmo shows in the next video.
(Kathy: This lesson spurred me to make this video. Elmo is in his Comfort Zone dragging a lead rope.)
As I describe in the comments in the video, this had a very real practical application the day Elmo was wearing his bridle and reins and wandered off with the reins dangling, of course. He did indeed step on the reins and I wasn’t worried at all because he did what he knows to do, he stopped, moved his foot and ambled on.
I was hoping to video Elmo stepping right near the hook on the lead rope (Man, I’m a sick individual.) but he is so good at this it would take a long time to capture that. What he would do is, stop, calmly pick up his foot, and amble on. Good boy Elmo!