Making More Horse Pucky

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Horse Pucky: Natural Eaglemanship

When force meets talons.

-cw

Horse Pucky: Easy Keeper

When expectation meets reality.

-cw

Unnatural Horsemanship

You’ve probably noticed that a few of my cartoons poke fun at natural horsemanship (NH). The only reason I do this is because, in my opinion, the philosophy of NH is very, very misleading. They say they’re using the language of the horse and it’s a gentler way to train. My question is, Compared to what?

Horse Pucky: Don’t Like Men

How to read your horse’s non-verbal communication.

-cw

“Validate Me!”

Sometimes I feel like I’m one of the blubbering little hobbits from The Lord of the Rings. I was in a pet shop the other day and a very young, lone Quaker parrot was screeching his little lungs out. His cage was not far off the ground, so I knelt down and had a little chat with him in my best parrot voice.

This consisted of chirping noises, a few clicks, whistles and of course a “pretty bird” or two. In less than a second, the little screecher was cocking its head and watching me intently.

Horse Pucky: Double Vision

It’s all in the eye of the beholder.

-cw

Horse Pucky: Cowboy Dreams

The dolls made me do it.

-cw

Horse Pucky: Singing

Hearing voices in the tack room?

-cw

Is the Release Really a Reward?

I can’t set foot in any horse training arena without hearing something like,

The release is the reward.
Horses learn through pressure/release/reward.
Horses work for the release.

That’s great but, notice that the so called reward always comes after something, usually irritating, that needs to be released. Hmmmm.

Horse Pucky: Sit Trot

How to get anything to stay put.

-cw

Horse Pucky: Sheath Cleaning

Some guys just never get used to it.

-cw