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Groundwork
- Zenhorseman
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In response to Ground Work posted by Dakota5:
Be careful with the round pen work. It is easily overdone and done wrong. You might ask yourself why you feel the need to chase the horse around a pen. Consider this - in wild herds, horses are punished by being driven from the herd - a literal death sentence. When you took the horse to the round pen he was probably submissive and well behaved. He let you catch him, halter him, lead him, take him in the pen, and release him, probably all without incident. Now you suddenly drive him away. In his mind he has done something terribly wrong - and he doesn't know what. By turning to you he is asking to come back to the herd. Contrary to most "round pen clinicians" there is no need to chase him around the pen. It is really just psychological abuse.
Remain friends and forego "training".
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