Bathing Bonanza!
In this episode we are going to talk about bathing! Are you bathing a scared horse? Possibly bathing a horse for the first time?
Join renowned horse trainer Ken McNabb for a bathing bonanza!
In this lesson, Ken is working with a horse who is absolutely scared to death of water, the hose and the sound it makes.
IMPORTANT TAKEAWAYS FOR BATHING A SCARED HORSE
1. Break your goals down really small and build up from there.
2. Accept and reward the smallest try.
SHOULD I TIE MY SCARED HORSE KEN? I do not like to force a scared horse to stand still, you take away his nature instinct and ability to flee. Allow him to move, but when he stop immediately reward him by taking away the pressure.
As Ken states: “I like to take anything and turn it into a philosophy lesson for horse training. I don’t think methods are all that incredibly important, I think the philosophy is. How you do things is not as important as how you think about them. So, I want you to think about breaking down your goal into the smallest piece possible. That way we can learn as much about sliding stops while bathing this horse as we do about bathing him, because what we are really going to talk about is how to get this horse to change its brain, change the way he thinks. I want to teach him to control his emotions. Don’t start with your full goal. If you are going to do a sliding stop or side pass do you start with the whole thing first? No, you start with pieces of it. Same thing with bathing a scared horse, you must not start with the entire bath, but just pieces of it.”
GREAT TOOLS FOR BATHING A HORSE
1. I have found over the years the very best bathing unit is eZall made by Weaver Leather. The eZall bathing kit comes with a hose nozzle, foamer unit, wash and more. It can be picked up at almost all major online tack stores and farm stores.
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