Sacking out Spooky Horse Scared of a hose, rearing and breaking free Part 1 - Rick Gore

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This horse was tied to bad tie point and pulled a rail lose and dragged it 50 feet scared to death. Now the horse is scared of a hose since the person scared the horse with the hose and started the chain reaction that scared the horse. So I introduce the horse to hose, present it in a non-threatening way and let the horse know what is going to happen before it happens. Slowly I get the horse to ignore the hose and help the horse learn that the hose will not hurt him and his fear is necessary. After I do this at a good secure tie point where the horse CANNOT break free, then I in Part 2 I do a little more advanced in a round pen and eventually get the horse to accept the hose over his back and walking over it with minimal fear. This is a long way from a horse pulling a metal pipe wash rack out of the ground and running blindly and wildly dragging the wash rack thinking he is being chased by huge metal wash rack all caused by a hose..... opps I forgot a human controlled the hose and tied the horse to wash rack.... stupid horse??

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[NJTammy]

Rick, Could you please give me your feelings on "Cross Ties"? I do not feel they are a secure tie point and that it is setting them up to fail because if anything did occur, which something Can Always Occur I feel it leaves a lot of opportunity open for many things to go wrong. I am a strong believer to never ever let a horse off of a tie point unless obviously they get themselves into a dangerous situation and I feel Cross Ties can promote that. Can you please give me your input, thank you!

[horseawareness]

@NJTammy : Not a fan of cross ties, it traps a horse, they tend to be stretch cords that break, they make a horse nervous and are too restrictive for a horse to be able to move, relax and deal with things that come up. Of course if it is all a horse knows then they will adjust and accept, but the only people I see use them are people that don't understand horses, main people who to pretty up a horse, win shows and be like others that don't understand horses. Same with tie downs and stud chains.

[EmilyCOopZ]

hi rick i have a badly abused horse im training. She is very scared of the sound of tarps or the sound of plastic bags ive tryed putting a tarp in her paddock and i put her feed slowly closer and closer to it and that worked but everytime it made a noise she would bolt i watch ALL of ur videos and i was hoping you could give me some advice because i cant get 10metres near her with the noise without her running. Thank you

[MissHeatherAnn1]

That is a very pretty horse. :)

[honeyhearts27]

Beautiful horse. Excellent video. Buddy "Mr. Hollywood" lol.

[cyberg00se]

Yipes! That hose rack! May as well have said "HORSE EATING MONSTERS HERE!" I always found it easier to not tie the horse. Even mine who was no fan of showers, we didn't have to do the silly dance or anything.

I used to think cross ties were awesome. Then I got watch what happens when a horse thinks it's not-so-awesome.

I want to see these two videos with commentary by Buddy. :-)