On 24/08/07, Laree Shulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We do plenty of exposure exercises (like "unwinding") > > > OOhh- I forgot about that one - that's a great ground exercise to prep > a horse for driving. It's one we always did before draping lines > around their legs to get them desensitized to that.
AND basically just handling them with lead ropes is all just part of the training. I'm often dropping a lead line by accident or I'll take the end of it and just swing it over their backs. After a while they just become accustomed to their human being a clutz and they realize they won't die, if a lead line happens to get tangled in their legs or around a foot. They just stand quietly and wait for their human to untangle them. But the unwind game....that's a good one. I'll have to try that on Dagur again today... Thanks for the reminder Karen. Wanda
