Well, Suze,
A conversation that included the terms you used in that last post would have to be
several hours long if it were to include all those things, since they mostly pertain
to more than one horse topic.
Actually, it was Curtis Brown who did much of the engineering type work and tried
to relate it to dogs. He put out a book on it...personally, I found much of it theory
and not applicable, but then, he was the engineer, not me.
I think knowing something about any animal can help one understand structure of
other animals. I don't think knowing how to ride helps you know how to build a
bloodline or handle or groom. Knowing how to braid a mane or a tail doesn't help you
learn the proper way to "do" Cavalier ears. Knowing the difference between a snaffle
and a kimberwick and a long shank or short shank pelham or a high port curb bit won't
help you with ANYTHING in the dog world. It just looks like trying to
impress...IMNSHO.
Knowing how shoulders are laid on might help.....knowing how and why long hocks
and straight stifles effect movement might help. If you get my drift, you also get
the point.
Tossing terms around at random is not only not helpful, it's irritating.
Peggy
> Hi, Peggy,
> I guess I'm missing the point here? WHO is talking about horses on the
> list? Someone says that they came into dogs from horses.....another
> questions what that has to do with Cavaliers? Is that a discussion
> about horses?
> If someone says that they had a background as a mechanical engineer
> (Pat Hastings spent years with some of them trying to figure out the
> physics of dogs...don't know if it helped, but she did)......is that
> talking about mechanical engineering?
> I think it is just a polite way of introducing one's other interests
> and making friends is all? So far, I've not heard a single word about
> "on the forehand" or "capriole", "built downhill", "using the pelham
> rein", "longed to death" or "stifle locked breech birth".........now
> THAT would be a discussion about horses.
>
> Suze
>
> Peggy Mickelson wrote:
> > With rare, and I mean rare, exceptions, talking about them doesn't benefit the
>rest of the people on the list.
> >
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