It can be, depending on who is doing it. Even the non-abusive handling is meant to jazz the horse up, not calm them. And it just gets wilder from there...whipping, firecrackers, ginger applications under the tail....
The cue is a raised whip handle, not a hand, fortunately. I use a raised hand to indicate "whoa" at liberty, and he doesn't react to that. I had my hand halfway down the whip and raised it to get it out of the way because I was dealing with a long line and didn't want it tangled around my feet.
Having so much fun reading about the training.
Thanks!
I’m really enjoying reading about your training. But if a raised hand gets him wide eyed- surely the Arab training is abuse?
It can be, depending on who is doing it. Even the non-abusive handling is meant to jazz the horse up, not calm them. And it just gets wilder from there...whipping, firecrackers, ginger applications under the tail....
The cue is a raised whip handle, not a hand, fortunately. I use a raised hand to indicate "whoa" at liberty, and he doesn't react to that. I had my hand halfway down the whip and raised it to get it out of the way because I was dealing with a long line and didn't want it tangled around my feet.