On 11/27/07 11:19 PM, "Lorraine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Scooter bucked - was that today Lorraine? > > Yesterday. I don't think my horses like me. LOL or > Crying OL > > Lorraine Lorraine: This may be a really stupid question and it is a question that you don't have to answer but ask only of yourself: do you truly RESPECT you horses? To get a true partnership with your horses requires love and respect on your part, and I don't mean that you should be subservient. Let me tell you little story. My son Eric and our stallion Landi got along really well. Then one day, Eric, just for the fun of it, got on the saddle facing backward. Landi bucked him off immediately. I think he felt that Eric was making fun of him and did not like it. I think if Eric had approached more respectfully and somehow explained to him that he wanted to see of he could stay in the saddle that way. Landi would have been careful with him. I can't really explain this too well. It has something to do with how you feel in your heart. Horses feel respect and they feel if you are making fun of them. Anneliese
