[drivingpairs] Re: dominance!
- From: "Jeanine Rachau" <jrachau@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <drivingpairs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 08:48:38 -0800
Kathleen,
My thoughts on this, is when they are out at liberty - they can do their own
thing. But when you are involved in the equation, you have them in hand,
under saddle or harness, then you are the top banana, the leader - those
kind of hijinks are disrespectful and dangerous to you. You need to tell
the offending party - no! Not here, not on my time, my dime, instead of
waiting for the other animal to do it for you. You are the leader. Ground
work in teaching her to back off from you - should be able to be translated
to other venues. If she starts to crowd in on JH, then use what ever
signal you have taught her to tell her to back her off, and maintain a
respectful distance. When she shows that she can come in, and be
respectful, then she be closer (such as ponying). As soon as she starts
even thinking about acting snarky - back out to the end of the line she
goes. Consistent leadership and just keeping the door shut on any
opportunities that set her up to take advantage of JH will gradually take
the fun out of the game for her. I also look at it, that JH is expecting
you to protect him while he is under your control. Every episode where he
is let down by this, can demoralize him, and loose some confidence in your
leadership. With longears patterns of behavior are easily set and he might
always want to react this way because it's become a habit, whether he is
actually really that scared or not.
That's my spin on it, but I'm not a trainer, so take it for what it's worth.
Jeanine
Fjord, Donkey and Corgi owner
-----Original Message-----
From: drivingpairs-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:drivingpairs-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kathleen Conklin
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 5:53 AM
To: driving pairs pairs
Subject: [drivingpairs] dominance!
hi everyone,
ok, here's my problem ....
you would think that teaching a young horse to drive with john henry would
be cake because jh is older [14] and really broke........ too bad it's not
completely correct! here's the story.
jh is a baby...EVERY woman in his life is his boss...or that's what he
thinks. so along comes agnes and she, as all women seem to do, bosses him
around. all she has to do is show him a set of angry ears and he wants to
vaporize from the spot while yelling "i'm guilty, i'm sorry"!! agnes will
go along when i am ponying her off of jh and look for an opening to bite him
in the chest, neck or legs. what
this amounts to is that he isn't the best teacher of a young horse.
he is more than ready to let her be boss. winkers help when we are in
harness because he can't see her antics.... not that she has done
anything really bad but she tries to be dominant when it occurs.
with jh under saddle she will try to put her head over his neck or do the
angry ears thing which makes him step away from her.... you get the picture.
are there any training things i can do to help jh become dominate over
agnes or at least on an equal footing with her?
tally ho,
kathleen, john henry \ / & agnes \ /
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