"In my experience with Blackie, and earlier with allegedly incompetent recruits at Camp Colt, is rooted my enduring conviction that far too often we write off a backward child as hopeless, a clumsy animal as worthless, a worn-out field as beyond restoration. This we do largely out of our own lack of willingness to take the time and spend the effort to prove ourselves wrong: to prove that a difficult boy can become a fine man, that an animal can respond to training, that the field can regain its fertility."This is a passage from the book, The Road to Character by David Brooks. It a quote from General Dwight Eisenhower’s memoirs, about the training of a horse named Blackie, during the time he was assigned to the 20th Infantry Brigade in Panama.I also quote from Bob Wood from his Bob Wood Horses for Life Facebook page.“Horse training is about forming relationships. It is not so much doing something rights as it is not doing something wrong, which means taking the horse’s point of view and working with it. These damaged boys completely understood abuse, which made them effective horse trainers. I think that is the essence, seeing the process from the horse’s perspective.”So let’s take the time and spend the effort to form trusting relationships with our horses. Take our horse’s point of view and work with it. Be flexible and have fun.Here's the link to the Bluebonnet Equine Humane Society.And the link to the Second Half Horsemanship website.

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