--- In [email protected], "Robyn Schulze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Its the ones who regard those of us into natural methods as lunatics who don't know what we're talking about. Those are the ones who won't change. So sadly, it IS going to be us vs. them, to a degree.
---------------------You are wrong on this. *I'M* one of those who thought of you and the natural method people as lunatics who didn't know what you were talking about. I have indeed changed my ideas on this! I went from riding in the dropped noseband, traditional Icelandic saddle that didn't fit, and shoes all the time to riding in a sidepull, treeless saddle and barefoot. I have been studying the Linda Tellington Jones TTouch stuff, and have started taking a more holistic approach to training and riding. I have employed the clicker training method to help turn a horse around who had a bad start under saddle. *I* have changed. If I can change, others can too. Along the shift of the change though, I have and still do on occasion encounter a lot of hostility from other list members. WHY? Because I've been labeled "one of them". That's why I said in a previous email, look for the subtle changes. People don't normally change overnight. It takes time. And education is an ongoing thing!!! Just because I am now thinking more holistically in how to deal with horses does NOT mean that I fully grasp or understand every method of natural horsemanship completely. I don't! But to berate, undermine and be nasty to someone is surely NOT going to help that person in a situation like mine (and others who would likely be in the situation). That's the point I'm trying to get across.... Dawn Bruin-Slot, northern Michigan Fuzzy Logic Equine
