Well, Judy, in a perfect world, I would assume I hadn't done a good job of communicating with the horse.
Since many of our horses have been handled before we got them, sometimes it's a result of a previous owner setting us up, but even with a horse with "issues" I should in time be able to show him what I'm asking for and most "normal" horses will want to produce it. A friend and I were having this conversation one day not long ago about the basically tractable nature of horses - otherwise, why ever would man have even considered the possibility that they could be partnered with. I started to write that no one had ever trained a buffalo to do dressage, but I'm sure someone somewhere has a story about a third level buffalo that went to the 200 Olympics and represented the nation of South Dakota or something. Nancy
