[drivingpairs] Re: ground driving

I use a kid's plastic sled. Just drag it while I longline. It makes a 
great scraping noise. I use to get my friend to bring her daughter over 
with her "hot wheel" and ride around until we got no more reactions to 
the noise. I could have her ride behind us like a cart.
Robyn in Maine
On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 04:08 PM, Black Dog Hill wrote:

> If you wait until things are getting out of control and then release 
> the
> tins, he's learning that if he *completely* freaks out the scary thing 
> goes
> away.  You should *never* release the pressure (in this case the noise 
> of
> the tin cans) at ANY time during misbehaviour.  Wait for some good 
> behaviour
> (even a second of it) before releasing the pressure.
>
> The cans are a great idea but something that I would do while walking 
> Dan on
> halter.  Then harness up and ground drive with the tin cans before 
> heading
> out of the corral.  That way if he does spook I can maintain some 
> control
> until he settles down....then stop the noise.  Once out of the corral  
> I
> would ground drive Dan and have someone else start dragging the cans 
> waaaay
> behind us.  Watching Dan's body language I can slowly have the other 
> person
> move closer and closer as Dan becomes accustomed to the noise.  If I 
> think
> he's starting to get nervous about it I can have the helper drop back 
> with
> the noise to soften it, but still have them keep doing it rather than 
> stop
> completely.  Once Dan's ok with it we can stop and give him a break or 
> move
> it up again depending on how I think he's mentally handling the 
> situation.
>
> Cindy
>
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> From: "Patti Atkinson" <patti.atkinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [drivingpairs] Re: ground driving
> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:46:12 +0100
>
> I get your point. But I think the idea was that if things started to 
> 'get a
> bit out of control' rather than at the first spook!
>
>
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