tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5899388425248595265.post744187276650208660..comments2024-03-26T08:14:17.157-07:00Comments on Haiku Farm: In which I learn something, and (with the help of friends) I can teach somethingAareneXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18072169739345465380noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5899388425248595265.post-29191801731619285792013-11-13T10:53:55.370-08:002013-11-13T10:53:55.370-08:00@ Anna - that's hilarious!!!!!!!!@ Anna - that's hilarious!!!!!!!!Melhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16627065628317652042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5899388425248595265.post-33060569505904379812013-11-13T10:53:17.144-08:002013-11-13T10:53:17.144-08:00I find that half of the solution to any training p...I find that half of the solution to any training problem with any animal is finding out what motivates the animal. Sounds like you've found something with Fiddle! Honeslty, I think that's the fun part of training - finding what motivates the creature that doesn't speak English and then coming to an agreement of how you give them what they want in exchange for something you want....Tess wants food and freedom and the ability to stop and stare at things and use her nose. In exchange for those things, she will do all sorts of things *I* want. Farley would like to have as much control over gait and pace as I'll give her on the trail - ie she wants to do her job without a lot of interference. So, sometimes the "bad deal" for a naughty behavior is going faster, and sometimes it's going slower - but the point is that exactly like your post states - it's a "bad deal" compared to the "good deal" of letting her just coast along with micromanaging :). Melhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16627065628317652042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5899388425248595265.post-29200191328771225962013-11-06T19:08:57.339-08:002013-11-06T19:08:57.339-08:00It works.. but if you have horses as smart as my l...It works.. but if you have horses as smart as my little Arab X, you need to be careful. My daughter's mare (why is it so often mares?) does what Fiddle does but daughter (aged 9) isn't fast enough or assertive enough to get after her. So I decided to ride up behind her, and when she humped/pinned her ears, it was ME who cracked her on the rump (like Buck, as described over at HorseBytes). Daughter's job was to then keep her moving and pull her up down the track. After two goes at that MY horse, nomarlly terrified of daughter's mare, realised I was in charge of discipline... next time we rode up behind her, he bit her on the ass! Guess he figured he wuold get away with it since we were all about training the mare.. Course, he was wrong.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00955968213167302745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5899388425248595265.post-11302399060533471072013-11-06T08:43:38.682-08:002013-11-06T08:43:38.682-08:00Thank you SO much for posting this!! Thank you SO much for posting this!! MyHorseFaithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15541252541670932634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5899388425248595265.post-61166408341463273292013-11-05T21:20:11.589-08:002013-11-05T21:20:11.589-08:00You have perfect timing in that video!! Ok, that&...You have perfect timing in that video!! Ok, that's it--Benny's getting the good deal offer from now on--heh heh heh....Mary Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05613907549800601796noreply@blogger.com