On 9/13/07, dawn_atherton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - > --------------But interestingly, my sister's horse WAS more > comfortable with a loose fittid dropped noseband.
not saying this is the case at all Dawn, but it is a good opening for me to bring up a point i like to bring up when I can--- in walking/racking horses, they learn to SEEK the pain of things. they will go behind the vertical themselves, without being put there by the rider, for instance, now why on earth would they do this? rote obedience for one, but in many/most cases, they learn if they just give in and do the painful thing and not fight it, it makes things easier for them but ALSO, and most importantly, the pain causes a RELEASE OF ENDORPHINS, the same endorphins that will make a horse crib until it starves to death or colics. they actually get hooked on it. Janice-- yipie tie yie yo
