The Ultimate Guide To Horse
Training
Catching
Your Horse
Eric Bravo
Horse Training Videos
While most
people see it as an inconvenience, catching a horse is actually an
opportunity for horse training. Fact is, the way you go about catching
your horse says a lot about where you stand in the horse-human
relationship. Are you the leader, or is your horse the leader? Surely
you wouldn’t want your horse to assume the leadership role. If you’re
out on the trail and something spooks him-you want to be the one making
the decision as to whether or not its something dangerous-not your
horse!
So what are the wrong ways to go about cathing a horse? Well people often go out in the pasture trying to chase down their horses. Guess what? The horse wins. Maybe you could wear down the horse so he gets so tired he just lets you catch him. But do you really want to sit on his back in that case?
Another method people use is trying to bribe the horse with treats. They run out to the pasture with a carrot or bucket of grain, hoping the horse will come close enough that you can sneakily put the rope over his neck.
Maybe that will work or maybe it won’t. Even if it does, you have to come back to the question, is that a horse you want to get on top of, if you have to offer him a carrot to get him to do what you want? Do you want to be riding him and have to beg him with carrots to act when you’re in the saddle?
Catching your horse is a great opportunity to apply natural horsemanship and get real results.
The only option that’s really available for horse training success is to become a leader for your horse. When catching, there are two general things you need to keep in mind-you need to think and act like a dominant horse, and you need to make sure your horse doesn’t see you as a predator.
Acting like a dominant horse can be done without any force whatsoever. Instead, it really involves getting a horse to move, when and where you want to. Does offering a horse a bucket of grain to coax him to come up to you sound like leadership?
And let me ask you this. If you are chasing after a horse all over the pasture hoping to wear him down what does that sound like? Maybe like an approach a mountain lion or other predator would take.
Using natural horsemanship means speaking to the horse in a language he understands. So for horse training success, you need to take a different approach to catching a horse. Example, a dominant horse moves or "pushes" the other horses around. Hence, to communicate leadership, you want to ask your horse to move.
While we use the word "dominant" we aren't saying be forceful or abusive, we are simply talking about establishing leadership here.
In his horse training videos “Starting Your Horse” and “Catching and Leading Your Horse” horse trainer Eric bravo demonstrates and teaches horse catching techniques he developed and honed through the years. Eric’s worked with thousands of clients and honed his skills on rescued and abandoned horses, so has seen everything a horse can do in order to avoid being caught. His videos show him catching horses in real situations, so you get to see the techniques in action in real time.
Here is a sample video clip:
You may also be interested in our horse training video software, which lets you view Eric’s horse training videos right on your computer, and its Mac and PC compatible.
For more information about horse training videos software, click here
So what are the wrong ways to go about cathing a horse? Well people often go out in the pasture trying to chase down their horses. Guess what? The horse wins. Maybe you could wear down the horse so he gets so tired he just lets you catch him. But do you really want to sit on his back in that case?
Another method people use is trying to bribe the horse with treats. They run out to the pasture with a carrot or bucket of grain, hoping the horse will come close enough that you can sneakily put the rope over his neck.
Maybe that will work or maybe it won’t. Even if it does, you have to come back to the question, is that a horse you want to get on top of, if you have to offer him a carrot to get him to do what you want? Do you want to be riding him and have to beg him with carrots to act when you’re in the saddle?
Catching your horse is a great opportunity to apply natural horsemanship and get real results.
The only option that’s really available for horse training success is to become a leader for your horse. When catching, there are two general things you need to keep in mind-you need to think and act like a dominant horse, and you need to make sure your horse doesn’t see you as a predator.
Acting like a dominant horse can be done without any force whatsoever. Instead, it really involves getting a horse to move, when and where you want to. Does offering a horse a bucket of grain to coax him to come up to you sound like leadership?
And let me ask you this. If you are chasing after a horse all over the pasture hoping to wear him down what does that sound like? Maybe like an approach a mountain lion or other predator would take.
Using natural horsemanship means speaking to the horse in a language he understands. So for horse training success, you need to take a different approach to catching a horse. Example, a dominant horse moves or "pushes" the other horses around. Hence, to communicate leadership, you want to ask your horse to move.
While we use the word "dominant" we aren't saying be forceful or abusive, we are simply talking about establishing leadership here.
In his horse training videos “Starting Your Horse” and “Catching and Leading Your Horse” horse trainer Eric bravo demonstrates and teaches horse catching techniques he developed and honed through the years. Eric’s worked with thousands of clients and honed his skills on rescued and abandoned horses, so has seen everything a horse can do in order to avoid being caught. His videos show him catching horses in real situations, so you get to see the techniques in action in real time.
Here is a sample video clip:
You may also be interested in our horse training video software, which lets you view Eric’s horse training videos right on your computer, and its Mac and PC compatible.
For more information about horse training videos software, click here