It was suggested to me by another Parelli student on another list that Orri may have reached a threshold which could be why he's begun to act out and that maybe I should start at the beginning again.
And that comment has me wondering about thresholds. Does anyone have experiences with horses and thresholds that they can share--maybe it will help me to figure things out........ Thinking back to when Orri started bolting--I'm wondering if maybe that was his 'coping mechanism' when he was at a threshold. He had been doing just fine, and then bang--the bolting. Now with the Parelli--we were doing just fine, then bang--big fear of the carrot stick. So--I must be awfully dense because I cannot tell when my horse is reaching these thresholds. And I'm not sure if these thresholds--if that's what they are--are because he's young, scared, mixed up, or just plain fed up. Now I need to learn how to recognize the thresholds, learn how to 'train' Orri without having him freak out, and get a bond of trust built. And--maybe it's not a threshold thing about the training, but a threshold thing about putting up with my blundering around like the novice I am. V
