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About Rick Gore (www.thinklikeahorse.org)
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--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 95% 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. I am like Gordon Ramsey (Hell's Kitchen) and Simon Cowell (Idol), you may not like what I say or how I say it, but it will be pretty true and accurate, in my opinion, judging from my experience.
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Rick is an experienced horseman with over 35 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 over 35 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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Expert: Rick Gore (www.thinklikeahorse.org) - 11/3/2009
Question
I have a Saddlebred filly that will be six months old on November 5. She has been weaned for around three months and has had a stall buddy and spent lots of time in the pasture during this time. Her mother, my mare, cribs with her cribbing collar on which is one reason I separated them at three months. My filly's weanling buddy doesn't crib, and my filly didn't begin cribbing until this week on wood, metal, and anything hard enough to crib on. Do you have any suggestions on what I can do to stop this behavior before it gets out of hand? Her mother cribbed when I purchased her. She is 12 now and has a very high discomfort tolerance. I want to stop my filly's cribbing as humanely and quickly as possible. Thank You.
Answer
This is a people caused vice from people who want to lock up and stall a horse. A horse in pasture normally does not crib. You weaned the baby too young trying to help and now the horse has to pay. Another horse with a past and no future.
The only thing I can suggest is put the horse in pasture with lots of horses and try and prevent places for it to crib. Anything it cribs on make it hard, sharp, taste bad, uncomfortable. I assure you if you let this horse go on BLM land with herds of wild mustangs, it would not crib, only when humans get involved do we see such destructive and cruel behaviors develop.
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