| Title: | Equine Notes Conference |
| Notice: | Topics List=4, Horses 4Sale/Wanted=150, Equip 4Sale/Wanted=151 |
| Moderator: | MTADMS::COBURN IO |
| Created: | Tue Feb 11 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2080 |
| Total number of notes: | 22383 |
Hi All,
Last week I had an interesting situation arise and I wanted to ask how
you would have dealt with it.
The horse I ride for my lessons was in his stall, eating hay. Normally
I simply walk in, put his halter on, and lead him out without a fuss.
Last week he allowed me to put his halter on, stopped eating his hay,
but would NOT budge out of that stall. He wasn't being nasty, he just
wouldn't move. I pulled a little, realized the utter futility of that,
tried to bribe him with some hay, that didn't work, so I got a carrot
and bribed him out with that.
What other methods could I have used?
Dana
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| 1960.1 | a few suggestions... | MROA::ROBINSON_S | you have HOW MANY cats?? | Tue Apr 11 1995 14:10 | 14 |
Don't repeat the carrot trick - you only reward him for being a
brat. "gee, if I don't cooperate, she'll give me a carrot".
If he doesn't want to walk to the door, turn him in a few circles
around his stall and on the, say, third trip head out the door. If
he's ignoring the lead rope, try putting a chain over his nose once
or twice, he'll get the idea and you can go back to a plain rope.
Whatever you do, don't let him think leaving his stall is a bad
thing. If this turns into a traumatic event, he will associate you
coming to get him with a bad experience. Always let him either
think it was his idea, or forget why he didn't want to do it [this
is why you do the circles]
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| 1960.2 | back out | LABC::PENN | Equestrian Lady | Tue Apr 11 1995 16:17 | 8 |
CJ did this once to me, Refused to leave the stall after I went back to
get something and had him in tow. He was all saddled and ready to
ride. I just turned him around a few times and finally ended up
backing him out of the stall. The look on his face was priceless when
he realized he wasn't in the stall anymore.
linda
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| 1960.3 | Great ideas! | HYDRA::WHITMORE | Tue Apr 11 1995 18:25 | 12 | |
re .1: Yep I thought that I was rewarding him for bad behavior. I did
try one circle in the stall with him, twice. SHoulda just kept on
going!
re .2: What a great idea - I never would have thought about backing him
up.
Great - I'll try those tricks if he pulls this stunt again. It was
pretty funny, him s-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g his neck to reach that carrot
without moving his feet.
Dana
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| 1960.4 | re: horse won't leave stall | TUXEDO::MURTHA | Wed Apr 12 1995 12:17 | 6 | |
>> but would NOT budge out of that stall. He wasn't being nasty, he just This should work if you have several horses in the barn.. If I let out one of my horses, the others want to go too. If all else fails try taking out another horse, then go back and get yours. Rob | |||||