--- In [email protected], "Karen Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> So what are you saying? Have any of your horses ever bitten? > Icelandics? > > Read my post again.
I read it just fine the first time, that's why I asked whether any of your horses had EVER bitten people. It was just your little twist at the end that made it sound like I was saying biting is ok, I specifically said that it is not ok, but it can happen. In that post, I said: "I won't go so far as to say they > NEVER did or NEVER will, but they know it's not tolerated, and that we're in > a zero-tolerance, no-bite zone." And that is no different that what I said. I don't think, unless there is some way you stop them from ever trying it before they do it. > > You said, "Some Icelandic's bite". Maybe it's semantics, but if I were new > to the breed, I'd take that to mean that it's just the way it is. I don't > buy that. > I've seen "some", "a few", bite, "some" means part of, it doesn't really speak to a percentage, and I would have no idea how much that is, I would guess not very many, because out of hundreds, I've only seen a few bite, oh yes, I just remembered another, an Icelandic mare, broodmare I think, out on acreage in CA, bit a man who was looking to buy in the shoulder really hard, needless to say I don't think he bought her. So I don't think that it's really prevalent, but it happens. So, I'm really still not sure what you are saying???? How would you put it? I can only speak from experience, and same for everyone else. I'm not entirely sure how the conversation about clicker training deteriorated into a conversation about biting, except that you wanted to blame clicker training for biting, and I don't buy that. Please do not put a twist on what I say and make it seem like I could be turning off people new to the breed, I really wish this list were a little friendlier, maybe we could say that most Icelandics, the majority don't bite, but their owners do! Kim
