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About Rick Gore (www.freewebs.com/horseawareness)
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Visit Rick Gore's Horse Site: --- www.freewebs.com/horseawareness
--Rick is a student of the horse. He can answer questions about sacking out (Desensitizing vs. Sensitizing), dealing with spooky, abused or ex-race horses, rearing, bucking, horses that won’t tie or load into a trailer, working in a round pen/round corral, starting colts, dealing with aggressive or so called "mean" horses, herd behavior, biting, kicking, hard to catch, using a bosal or hackamore, soft hands and direct reining verses neck reining. If you expect him to tell you feel good advice, you will be disappointed. 95% of all his answers will include "the problem is you and not your horse." About 90% of most answers that I give out are on my web site, so if you read it you will probably answer your own question and may learn a few other things. If have some good information that you would like me to add to my site, please email me so it can be passed on to others.
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Rick is an experienced horseman with many years of riding and handling horses. Rick grew up in Texas around horses and horse people. He has started colts, ridden many horses with behavior issues and worked with problem horses. (He believes that most horse problems are really people problems)
He believes in and practices natural horsemanship and continues to read and study books by great horsemen. He routinely attends clinics, talks with and discuss horse issues with other clinicians and trainers. He has never met a horse that could not be fixed. Rick believes it is never the horse's fault and with proper handling, all problems can be worked out.
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Rick has many years experience in being around and working with horses. Over the years he has watched good horsemen do the right thing and seen the wrong things done with bad results. Rick has a Bachelor of Science degree in Education.
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You are here: Experts > Recreation/Outdoors > Horses > Horses - Behavior Issues, Breaking and Training > lunge line: www.freewebs.com/horseawareness
Expert: Rick Gore (www.freewebs.com/horseawareness)
Date: 9/27/2008
Subject: lunge line: www.freewebs.com/horseawareness
Question
Hello my name is Tyler. I am 28. 2 weeks ago I had to put my horse, my buddy of 13 years down. I had just sold my other horse 2 weeks before that so that left me without any horses. The next day I found a 2year old colt that I wanted. I have always had broke horses in the past but now wanting to start one myself. He is halter broke but that is about it. He was very disrespectful but I am working on that and making some good progress. I have tried to start him on a lunge line and he keeps wanting to stay to close to me and just follow me around like he is being led and he is pretty sensitive when you touch his feet. Any suggestions?
Answer
The horse is only two, don't be too rough on him with respect. You want him to see you as a strong leader, but not a someone who is always pushing him away. It is normal for a horse to try and stay close to you when learning to lounge, he knows you can't make him run if he is close to you. YOu have to increase the pressure so he will move away from you. I discuss this on my horseman tips page and my horsemanship page. Read the first five pages of my web site and it will help you understand horses better so you can start this little guy right.
Rick
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