Comments on: Rude and Polite Behavior With Horses – Continued

By: Hilary L

Hilary L — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:50:17 +0000

Greetings, Carolyn and friends. I am new to this blog and this way of thinking about my relationship with our horses. It is wonderful, it resonates with everything I have experienced up to this point. I have been a student of a well-known natural horsemanship program, and continue to be grateful for, and learn from, that system. The WHR takes everything to the next level, it is truly “horse-centered” thank goodness! No more making the right thing easy and the wrong thing difficult, which is just another way of refusing to give the horse a real choice.
Thank you!

By: stephani

stephani — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:26:08 +0000

I have your book and dvd and practice all the waterhole rituals well.
this last blog confuses me. the passive position you are speaking of…this must be the first ritual, but the part i do not understand is the community of horses pushing the new horse around. are you saying that we are the new horse coming into the community of the horse and his paddock? and we are being passive by simply moving the chair away from him is he is too aggressive while we are practicing the first ritual?

By: Dianne

Dianne — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:20:52 +0000

I just came in from “sharing territory” with my 4 year old filly. I took a chair and a horse magazine into the corral. She came up to investigate. We hung out a bit, then I had to back her away a little because she thought that nibbling on my toes was fun. (I thought it rude.)

By: Carolyn Resnick

Carolyn Resnick — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:31:33 +0000

Dear Celia, 53,
Looks to me you have a wonderful relationship. Let me know how it turns out. When razing horses and children we do what we can and hope for the bets. I have no hard and fast rules for you at this. I generally only suport and suggest.
YOu will make good choices and bad choices and the working bond with grow because of your mistakes and your good decisions.
I do not know if your horse will learned to pull or not but you will find out soon. What you share with me in a your tube gives me a clearer picture in what is happening with you and your horse. What you are describing to me may look diffrent to me if I saw a you tube.

By: Tracy Litle

Tracy Litle — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:07:32 +0000

Hi Caroliine,
This post was really great. I was able to spend time with the horses and doing the WHR this weekend playing with all three of my horses and was quite amazed at the different responses from each.

You wrote “As humans we need to play many parts, sometimes we are the leader, sometimes the student, sometimes the teacher, sometimes the follower and sometimes the banished. If you focus on the practice of the Waterhole Rituals all these roles lead to a perfect working bond in harmony and unity. You will discover a magnetic connection as the outcome.” And that was my focus in the time spent with them – Being sensitive, discerning, and and responsive.

What was really interesting was that yesterday, I knew that I was not in the right frame of mind to work with the horses so I thought that I would just go out in their pasture sharing territory, reading a book. Ordinarily as soon as they spot me, they all come up to say hello and spend time. I must have put off some bad vibes; they didn’t even come up! What an eye opener for me! It reminds me of the saying ” Girl, don’t be bringing your stuff to me.” I was the banished one. What a lesson in attitude.

Thanks again for your wonderful posts.