Our paddocks are not enormous, so when my horse came with the nasty habit of pulling away and pissing off, he learnt that lunging energetically in his paddock for 15 minutes was not much fun. Sure, I had to jog a little, but he had to keep going too. We did that a few times, and the habit was broken.
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That’s a good one too if you don’t have an energizer bunny!
That story sure was telling, not one of the horses looked happy to see her.
Granted I don’t know very much about training top-level horses but I feel like providing turnout would remove the need for the walker/treadmill and result in horses that don’t look so dead inside.
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Watching the horse in the grass paddock and all I could think of was “please let him loose for a few minutes”. Does not seem like a happy life to me for her horses. Well taken care of physically, yes. Mentally, not so much.
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Now she’s answering questions so more people can “learn” from this depressing routine. Yikes.
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According to some here, this inner city program giving impoverished kids the opportunity to handle horses, should not exist…
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Did you even read it? Throwing digs out that don’t even apply. 
They have a 29-acre facility. This is hardly the type of facility myself and others think should not exist. 30 horses on 2-5 acres that maybe get out one hour a day or not at all, whose “turnout” is a 20’x20’ stall pen, those are the types of facilities I absolutely think should not exist, without a doubt.
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I did read it. Did you? Listen to their description of the terrain. Not all of it is turnout, clearly.
Yeah, and a look at Google maps and the photos they have show horses out in groups in decent size paddocks. They’re outside the city.
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Can someone provide a link to the instagram that shows all these sad, dead-eyed horses? I found an instagram for Dani Waldman but I don’t see the posts described here on it.
I’ve used this method except I used two halters, the top one with a regular lead shank, the bottom one with a chain over the nose. When she tried to rip away after removal of the top halter, Surprise! Took her exactly two times to learn how to behave and act like a lady and wait for me to remove her halter.
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You have to follow her, then View her Instagram story. I had a hard time too since I didn’t follow her to begin with.
Ah thanks
You don’t have to follow her, her profile is Public therefore anyone can view her story.
However, like SnapChat, Instagram stories disappear after 24 hours, so the videos that showed the mare and her daily routine (and all the dead-eyed horses) are no longer up, they were posted a day or a few days ago.
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So I missed all the at home clips then. Do you think her horses look sad and dead-eyed in videos from competitions? If not, do you think that horses can turn off their “emotions” like flipping a switch between being depressed and not interested in the rider at home, and being alert and responsive at shows?
Personally I thought they looked more “sad and stressed” than “dead-eyed.” But looking back through her Instagram, all pix of any horse yeah, I think they all look the same. Behaving differently or having different feelings in different environments isn’t “flipping a switch,” it’s responding to the environment they’re in.
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Her story wouldn’t show up for me - maybe I’m just really bad at this Instagram thing. Now off to the googles for that (I looked all over her profile).
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She didn’t answer my question… I asked if she knew what cultural appropriation was.
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You click on the profile picture
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