>>>> Hreggur didn't come into my life until he was already 22 years old. There
>>>> were plenty of physical things I had to solve first with him, and then I
>>>> had to start working on his brain. .... Gusti has no baggage...other
>>>> than he can't stand it when I'm anywhere in the area with Dagur.
Wanda - you just cut to the chase with that post. Isolating the "baggage" from
the "nature" of the horse is no easy feat. If you don't know which is
which...and if you didn't know the horse "before" it's HARD to which is which.
I'm just getting to the point where I'm ready to make some of the generalities
I've made about his breed - like when I say that I think this generally is NOT
a "goey" breed. I just get so sad knowing that so many people don't take the
time (or don't know how to...) to learn the difference.
I think from now on, whenever someone says "most Icelandic's" {do whatever...}
I'm going to be direct with them and ask how many they've studied and watched,
and how many they've known from birth, how many with prior baggage, how many
clean slates they've encountered, and how did they manage to isolate the
training/handling from the most obvious behavior traits in the horse. I don't
think this is ever easy to unravel, with any breed, but I think it's a real
challenge with a mostly-stoic breed like ours. (And yes, I know that some
Icelandic's are not so stoic... Tivar, God love him, coming to mind right off
the bat.)
Congratulations on your lovely "clean slate", Gusti, and thank you for taking
the time to unravel the mystery of Hreggur's baggage as much as you did. It
takes time, either way, doesn't it?
Karen Thomas, NC
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