My new arena!
There’s horse swimming pools, water treadmills.. but this training arena costs nothing and is free to use! Once in the water, Big really enjoyed expressing himself.. and the rider quite enjoyed bouncing around on top of him 🤣
New paddock, new grass… high jinks from Big! Turn your sound on to get the full experience! #happyhorse #livingagoodlife
Mikki is desensitised to flappy things
There’s a big difference between gradual desensitisation and flooding. The former takes time, and enables the horse to remain in control of the situation, keeping the horse in a positive state of mind and avoiding triggering any fear responses that will conflict with good learning. Flooding is where a fear response is triggered but the horse can’t do what is required to escape it. Sadly this is too frequently used in horse training.
Think about how you would feel being placed in the most frightening situation but not being able to avoid or stop it!
‘Bert’ the baler doing his thing.
GlenOlive’s ‘Bert’ the baler being put through his paces. What a handsome and very useful chap! Very pleased with him.
