--- In [email protected], "Judy Ryder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The draft was slowing down and > they almost had one fornt hoof trimmed in ring #1! WOW and only 3 hours into > the show! > > Was I impressed with this headstall? Absolutely NOT! The headstalls > presented for sale that day were INO cheaply made. The leather was cheap, > only riveted at the attachment points (which gave out under stress). > At the prices he was getting, and they were selling pretty fast, I'd want > better quality. The horses in his demo video were much more cooperative and > apparently his explanation of how "special" these two horses were was > sufficient to encourage novices to purchase the Novell. > > Just another gimmick for green horns to glom onto because they think it is a > shortcut to actual knowledge and experience. Could an expereienced handler > achieve results with the Novell? Certainly!, But then an expereinced handler > can achieve results with baling twine too! >
I was on the site trying to figure out how this is made and how it is supposed to work, I couldn't really find an explanation, but this was enough to turn me off, the first sentence in the ad: "The Noavel Headstall System was originally created to help us work with our short-tempered horses." I don't think it's terribly helpful to describe horses as short tempered, maybe it should read "the horses who didn't instantaneouly become our unquestioning slaves", that's what this kind of mentality says to me. I was told Snorri had a "temper", you know, I don't see it. He is smart, he will test and see if he might be able to get out of something, it doesn't take much to convince him, maybe just a look, a word, I don't see how there are any shortcuts, if something is established right in the beginning, it doesn't snowball out of control. When he came to me he was doing some head shaking, didn't want to be haltered and didn't want to be doctored, can't really blame him, when the behavior didn't get him anywhere, he still got haltered and was still doctored, he quit it, now he's begging to be haltered along with the rest. Kim
