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Old 07-30-2010, 10:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Danzig View Post
that's the thing, when a horse is out of control or being difficult, the last thing you want to do when he finally starts giving in is whack him. you're supposed to make the horse realize that things get difficult when he gets difficult, things get easy when he behaves. how is a whack in the head a reward for doing somethiing right?


Anger aside, very bad training move for wacking the horse just as he calmed down and made the turn. He got wacked in the face as he was doing what he was being asked to do.
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