> I don't repeat and drill and drill, and bore the horse to death. At the end of Mark Rashid's "Horses Never Lie" is a story about a woman who started her horse w/ NH, then started having problems w/ him and brought him to Mark R, who describes the horse as being "mechanical" and "resigned" w/ a "lack of enthusiasm." It's very clear from his description of the horse, owner and method that the owner was doing PNH. I used to be a big fan of the 7 games but I'm not so sure anymore. Both Parelli and John Lyons advocate repeating their techniques ad nauseum, and I don't feel that that's necessary. Horses aren't stupid. They don't need to have something repeated 100 times or whatever it is that Lyons advocates. Maybe it's 100,000 times. Now getting into Mark Rashid's stuff (no gimmicky equipment, no copyrighted techniques) and Klaus Hempfling--both teach that horses are incredibly intelligent and sensitive and most importantly, they both actually give the horse credit for this, unlike many others who also say that horses are intelligent and sensitive and then insist on drilling them 100,000 times. I'm starting to lump the overpriced, gimmicky PNH stuff in w/ all the other overly-gimmicky types--Monty Roberts, Phonyboy, Lyonsx2, that horrible Julie Goodnight idiot, etc etc. I'm liking simple lately. And interestingly enough, it works better!!
Robyn
