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    Easily Despook Your Horse In A Way It Understands Using Herd Dynamics And Its Natural Instincts
    Easily Despook Your Horse In A Way It Understands Using Herd Dynamics And Its Natural Instincts
    Easily Despook Your Horse In A Way It Understands Using Herd Dynamics And Its Natural Instincts
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    Easily Despook Your Horse In A Way It Understands Using Herd Dynamics And Its Natural Instincts

    By Marv Walker

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    Spooking is the number one email subject that comes to me as an equine problem practitioner from people around the world with horse problems. The number one DVD of my entire inventory people order is my Despooking DVD.

    Spooking is the number one horse problem because it is so deeply ingrained in horses. Spooking and horses go together like quacking and ducks.
    Spooking is unpredictable and when its unexpectedness or severity catches someone by surprise they get on the net looking for "the cure."

    Strangely, spooking catches so many by surprise because most of the horses they see or are around aren't spooking all that much. And then there are those who know horses spook but think it can easily be eliminated with a little desensitization or "sacking out." And then there is the degree of spookiness in the horse - it may be spooked by some things and not other things.

    I continually see ads selling or looking for horses that contain the phrase, "Bombproof, child safe." There is no such animal. There are horses who are less spooky than others for whatever reason, but all horses are subject to unexpected reactions.

    This ebook is intended to explore the subject of spooking in horses; what it is, it's causes and various techniques used to address it.

    This ebook covers a surprisingly unknown despooking technique that takes advantage of the horse's natural herd dynamics of self-preservation rather than item specific desensitization using "flags," plastic sheets, treats or what have you. Herd dynamics despooking takes advantage of the horse's natural instinct rather than an item specific investigation. With herd dynamic despooking we are taking advantage of a concept - when spooked, whatever the reason, look to us for the solution.

    The dynamics of the herd are not for the good of the herd. They are for the good of the individual. The herd exists for the good of the individual. The herd dynamics, or as many call them, the pecking order, can be summed up by, "I am more worthy, or important, than you are." Strangely, this summation is accepted by all the herd and is the basis for the horse's natural preservation. Spooking is the act of self preservation.

    This ebook will immerse you into the world of horses and bring you to a new awareness of yourself and horses.

    Read this book from beginning to end. Each chapter builds on the one before and it is important to understand all the nuts and bolts involved in despooking your horse using the horse's natural genetically pre-programmed instincts.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMarv Walker
    Release dateNov 2, 2011
    ISBN9781466173873
    Easily Despook Your Horse In A Way It Understands Using Herd Dynamics And Its Natural Instincts
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    Marv Walker

    I have been horse crazy for 60+ years. For reasons too involved to go into here I have always had a special attachment for the "problem" horse. For over two decades I have been helping people and horses around the world quickly past attention, trust, fear and respect issues in private work, clinics, web pages, videos and ebooks. Traditionally people bring horses from a herd setting geared toward the individual's needs into a social setting geared toward the needs of the group. This results in a "happy medium" relationship - as long as neither party does anything the other can't live with, they're fine. When they can't work out a suitable happy medium, the horse gets replaced. I teach people to control their horses by going into the horse world and quickly connecting with it there using the horse's natural dynamics then bringing the horse into the human world along with its natural dynamics. The "happy medium" relationship is replaced with a connected, communicating relationship. Because the horse knows what is expected of it and knows it can do what is expected of it, the relationship is never broken.

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      Easily Despook Your Horse In A Way It Understands Using Herd Dynamics And Its Natural Instincts - Marv Walker

      Easily Despook Your Horse In A Way It Understands Using Herd Dynamics And Its Natural Instincts

      by Marv Walker

      Published by Marv Walker at Smashwords

      Copyright 2011 MarvWalker

      Visit Marv Walker at: MarvWalker.com

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Cover Photo and Design: Marv Walker. All rights reserved.

      Chapter 1: Introduction

      Spooking is the number one email subject that comes to MarvWalker.com from people around the world with horse problems. The number one DVD of my entire inventory people order is my Despooking DVD

      Spooking is the number one horse problem because it is so deeply ingrained in horses. Spooking and horses go together like quacking and ducks.

      Spooking is unpredictable and when its unexpectedness or severity catches someone by surprise they get on the net looking for the cure.

      Strangely, spooking catches so many by surprise because most of the horses they see or are around aren't spooking all that much. And then there are those who know horses spook but think it can easily be eliminated with a little desensitization or sacking out. And then there is the degree of spookiness in the horse - it may be spooked by some things and not other things.

      I continually see ads selling or looking for horses that contain the phrase, Bombproof, child safe. There is no such animal. There are horses who are less spooky than others for whatever reason, but all horses are subject to unexpected reactions.

      This ebook is intended to explore the subject of spooking in horses; what it is, it's causes and various techniques used to address it.

      This ebook also covers a surprisingly unknown despooking technique that takes advantage of the horse's natural herd dynamics of self-preservation rather than item specific desensitization using flags, plastic sheets, treats or what have you. Herd dynamics despooking takes advantage of the horse's natural instinct rather than an item specific investigation. With herd dynamic despooking we are taking advantage of a concept - when spooked, whatever the reason, look to us for the solution.

      The dynamics of the herd are not for the good of the herd. They are for the good of the individual. The herd exists for the good of the individual. The herd dynamics, or as many call them, the pecking order, can be summed up by, I am more worthy, or important, than you are. Strangely, this summation is accepted by all the herd and is the basis for the horse's natural preservation. Spooking is the act of self preservation.

      This ebook will immerse you into the world of horses and bring you to a new awareness of yourself and horses.

      Read this book from beginning to end. Each chapter builds on the one before and it is important to understand all the nuts and bolts involved in despooking your horse using the horse's natural genetically pre-programmed instincts.

      Chapter 2: About Marv Walker

      Marv Walker

      For 60 years I have had a love affair with horses. The first horses I had any experience with were my grandfather's heavy draft horses. I can close my eyes and still smell and hear them, especially the times when he would harness them to skid logs, work the fields or gather ice for the icehouse from the frozen lakes of Michigan's Upper Peninsula close to the shores of Lake Superior in the winter. My uncles would saw huge chunks of ice from the thick ice at the surface and hook the horses to the chunks with tongs and then they'd skid the ice back to the icehouse where it would be buried in sawdust for use in hot months like July and August.

      When I was in school I tried everything I could think of to be able to ride because we were unable to have a horse of my own. I struck a deal with a riding stable owner who assured me I'd be able to swap my work for riding. And I would have been able to had there been any horses that were not needed for paying clients to ride or horses that were tired from being ridden. Every riding stable I've ever had anything to do with became a riding stable because they had a herd of horses and the horses needed to earn a little of their keep. Most of the stables had about 40 horses of which 8 or so were rideable. The rest were vice-ridden or unsound.

      When I asked about all the other horses out in the pastures I was given all kinds of reasons as to why those horses were unrideable. They were vice ridden, had chronic physical issues or weren't broke to ride. It quickly became evident that if I was going to get much riding in I was going to have to do it on the sly and it was going to have to be those unrideable horses that I rode.

      I guess it was that beginning that gave me my preference for vice-ridden horses. I learned a lot from them and over the years became fairly adept at solving problems.

      For a long time I used the force method of getting a horse to comply with what I wanted. I always operated under the idea that the horse was just spoiled and needed showing who was boss. More often than not, I was able to show them. Sometimes, they showed me and became the inspiration for my line, I'm a Cereal Cowboy... I Snap, Crackle and Pop when I move.

      Then I met Linda Tellington-Jones. I attended one of her clinics nearly 30 years ago and in mere minutes LT-J convinced me there was a better way of dealing with horses and opened up a whole new world. I became aware that horses can have headaches, off days, physical problems that may not be obvious and even mental problems that prevent them from being able to give their best. Since then I have eagerly devoured every bit of information I can wherever I find it and weigh it against common sense, success and whether or not it meets my criteria:

      (1.) it has to be reasonably safe for the horse *AND* me; (2.) the horse must accept it; (3) it must show positive results; (4) and it must work.

      I spent a lot of time in my life simply observing horses and watching how they interacted with each other. I saw they had a ranking or pecking order within the herd that set some individuals up as leaders and the rest as followers. I began working some of those things I observed the horses doing into the work I was doing with horses.

      But it was a lot of hit and miss. Everything I tried seemed to work but the problem I had was trying to figure out how to time the steps.

      I had developed somewhat of a local reputation for being able to get into a horse's mind. I was able to develop a bonded relationship with almost any horse I worked. I would keep working with a horse until the horse screamed at me, I'VE GOT THE PROGRAM, YOU MORON!!! I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO TO CONVINCE YOU!!!

      And then I read an angst-laden horse training tome written by one of

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