I saw on line and read that to teach a horse to move TOWARD you when you climb up on a cheating rock or log (or anything).
You need to have a lunge whip and tap the oposite hip. when they make even a slight move toward you away from the tapping to rub and praise.
Sounds good.. so I tried.... what a complete failure I felt like!!!
when I climbed up on a chair at the barn, Maci (my mare) looked at me like I was crazy. She stepped up close to me in her shoulder only her rear was swung around away from me. I got the whip and tapped, tapped and tapped some more on her butt,flank. She would turn her neck around and look at her hip and the tapping whip like.. "what in the world" and she would NEVER even make the slightest move away from the tapping. I kept this up for quite a while.. I enlisted hubby's help and he tried to push her toward me.. I thought well I will praise her then.. but she just pushed against him away from me.
HELP.. where did I go wrong???
Rhonda
You need to have a lunge whip and tap the oposite hip. when they make even a slight move toward you away from the tapping to rub and praise.
Sounds good.. so I tried.... what a complete failure I felt like!!!
when I climbed up on a chair at the barn, Maci (my mare) looked at me like I was crazy. She stepped up close to me in her shoulder only her rear was swung around away from me. I got the whip and tapped, tapped and tapped some more on her butt,flank. She would turn her neck around and look at her hip and the tapping whip like.. "what in the world" and she would NEVER even make the slightest move away from the tapping. I kept this up for quite a while.. I enlisted hubby's help and he tried to push her toward me.. I thought well I will praise her then.. but she just pushed against him away from me.
HELP.. where did I go wrong???
Rhonda