الإثنين 23 سبتمبر 2024

Live & Learn

موقع أيام نيوز

Horses live what they learn and learn what they live said the late Ray Hunt. It means that a horse will accept what he is taught and if it is consistent he will develop life habits. It also means that much of what a horse learns does not come from a trainer but from basic everyday handling. If a horse lives in an environment where he is expected to behave well and those expectations are supported by quality consistent handling the horse will learn to behave well. This is also true of a horse that lives in an environment where the handling is less consistent and less structured the horse will just end up learning that he is allowed to behave badly the horse does not know he is behaving badly he is just behaving the way he is allowed. If a handler has no expectation that his horse can behave differently then the bad behaviour will never change.

مع وصول أونصة الذهب إلى مستويات قياسية تجاوزت 2500 دولار، يجد المواطن المصري نفسه مضطراً لموازنة استثماراته بين الذهب واحتياجاته الأخرى، خاصة مع ارتفاع أسعار السيارات مثل تويوتا، هيونداي، وبي إم دبليو، مما يزيد من التحديات المالية التي يواجهها.
Certain sectors of the horse industry are more diligent about teaching respectable behaviour and encouraging horses to learn with confidence. Others have allowed horses to be barely manageable for so long that they have come to believe their horses are difficult because of their breed. They expect their horses to be hard to handle. I believe this is very unfair to the horse. An intelligent sensitive immature animal is dropped into a highly stressful training environment and taught in my opinion less than the minimum amount of skill for him to comfortably cope with high expectations and the environment. The trainers then blame their own shortcomings on the seemingly neurotic nature of the horse. They learn to manage the horse in a state of semioutofcontrol and accept it as normal behaviour. 
I am not just pointing fingers at the trainers but at