Parelli Tips: Success Series - "Natural Attraction"

"Natural Attraction" DVD

• You can sometimes let your horse stop and look if something is bothering him 
• Put yourself between your horse and something frightning them
• Don't take your horse right toward something frightning
• Lead him around, sort of circling it, (approach and retreat) thus gaining his trust
• Learn to direct your horse by his nose
• Sometimes bring treats, so your horse knows you mean "good things"
• Rub and scratch your horse in good spots
• If your horse is excitable going through a gate, keep doing it, until he is calm
• Lead on both sides of horse, so they don't get one-sided
• Keep him out of your space (Yo-Yo Game)
• Once you are connected with a rope to your horse and are trying to bring him in, walk backwards and behind him and reel in the rope, drawing them to you, keeping curiosity
• If your horse stomps away from you, reel in the rope from behind
• Always smile
• If he stalls, pick up the pressure
• Wait for your horse to come to you (what if someone walked into your bedroom without knocking?)
• When he first looks at you, turn around
• Ask your horse to give you his head for the halter
• Come out of a gate gradually - don't rush!
• Halter the easiest horse first - taking other horses away may attract the last
• Make things intresting
• Don't sneek a halter behind your back
• Never directly bribe