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csultenfuss@txfb-ins.com Saddles & Tack a horse of course


training, which is actually a repeating of punishment, is the primary way most horse trainers get their horses to perform.


on the reins or spur, spur, spur Intimidation training intimidation training


until the horse complies out of fear and force.


for a period of time. They jerk, jerk, jerk


enough to get through a class.) It works well enough


Of course, it works, (Long


that a great many of the most successful trainers seldom use


CYNTHIA A. SULTENFUSS, LUTCF Agent


any other form of behavior modification. (Note: I did not say the “best” intimidate,


there are a great many who don’t intimate and are very successful.) But the majority of professionals intimidate and


horse owners who are not professionals also use “intimidation” as their primary means of getting a horse to perform.


judges and “influencers” of AQHA policy (the association I am most familiar with in terms of showing horses) are also trainers or are “invested” in the showing of horses, intimation is accepted.


sure it is also the case with other breed associations. The biggest problem


intimidation I’m


with intimidation is that it is not truly training and therefore it doesn’t have a lasting effect. The proof is that trainers are their


constantly intimidating


horses….during at-home training sessions, during warm up at shows, just before entering the show pen for a performance class and even after exiting the show pen. It’s never ending,


because it is never permanent. It does not teach a horse the correct response to a request; it only instills fear and helplessness. The horse performs


trainers don’t use positive or negative reinforcers to teach correct


of an exercise, but instead immediately


intimidation—severe begin


sequences more


tying heads up in stalls, refusing to let horses lie down to rest, excessive flexing without relief. There


special horses that can tolerate the intimidation and can win classes…some even become champions.


most intimidated horses don’t perform


They get so nervous, so fearful, they can’t manage a smooth and graceful performance; instead they get through it with pinned ears, swishing tails, sweaty necks and heads carried as low as their knees.


But, of course, well


consistently. are those bits, footfall Intimidation Since most of the the vast majority of and I will


trainers say


By Don Blazer © 2013


punishment….it is when a horse’s behavior is dangerous to handlers, riders or other horses. When a horse makes an effort to bite a handler, or kick at a person or horse, then immediate punishment is the appropriate


the response which comes from any member of the herd; so if you’re a “natural horse trainer” then you should be


for dangerous behavior is a naturally response.)


punishment has been initiated, it should be ended as quickly as it started. From that moment on, the handler/ trainer


should be looking for ways to use operant conditioning


horse’s behavior. to shape the


(intimidation) is so common a practice that I’ve witnessed judges watch a competitor (also a carded judge) jerk, jerk, jerk a horse again and again without the slightest hint of disapproval. (AQHA does have an “abuse policy” which clearly


continuous jerking on the reins is not acceptable.) The competitor rode


states that


simply out of an effort to avoid pain.


the sweating, trembling horse into the show pen, completed the course while issuing a few more good jerks on the reins, then exited and was awarded a placing in the class. Judges aren’t going professional


to


horsemen since they may have


side, I know of at least one show management


removed an abusive trainer from the show grounds.


and executives


associations are the only ones who can slow down (not eradicate) training.


to think competitors are going to discipline


their trainers….why would they?


intimidating! Visit A Horse, Of


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or


positive which


On the disqualify


at a later date, and because many of them also practice intimidation.


to show under them Punishment Once


punishment appropriate the


aware that response. (It’s There is a time for


Show management from the


intimidation


It is just plain silly themselves


The consequences are


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