Teaching Your Horses To Stand Still
Don't expect the veterinarian to do the taming of your pony for you. The vet's job is to check your mare's health condition, diagnose ailments if there's any, and give treatments if needed. As the equestrian, it is your responsibility to train your pony to act as it should, not only during dressage competitions or on your horse riding rampage, but even during her meetings with the vet.
If your mare goes frantic during her check-up with the vet, i.e, she keeps on moving around and doesn't stand still, whether the vet has a tough time to inspect your mare thoroughly, you (and your mare and the vet) will benefit much once you've trained your mare how to be still when the vet is to test her, or better, whenever she has to stand still.
If your mare wouldn't respond accordingly for this coaching, it's either the lesson's design is not suited for the pony or is not totally and correctly implemented or the period of training isn't adequate enough for your mare to completely understand what you're trying to teach her. Depending on your mare's ability to grasp the lesson and/or on your time schedule, you can break the lessons into hours and days.
There are different lessons on teaching horses to stand still depending on what the horses do when they're not standing still: walking forward, stepping backwards, stepping into their equestrian or someone near her, pulling away; for each of these there's a different cue to work on.
When your mare is pushing forward and going past you, teach her the right spot where she should stay next to you by working on going forward and making her back up. Work on the cues for getting her head down and going forward, for cases when she's pulling back. You could benefit from having a round pen as that's where you'll work on teaching your mare to move her shoulders to be away from you. It also is great for doing outside turns to handle the issue of her stepping into you instead of standing still.
That suggests that you can teach your pony the cue to fix any wrong behaviour (motions), that is, in regard to being still for check-ups with the vet as an example. Use the cues to counter your mare's moves and remind her to wait for your cues. Work on the lessons until your mare can do them out of habit and naturally.
Once your mare is consistent in following your cues and the way in which she does it is as graceful as when she's doing a dressage maneuver, gently and with ease, you're then ready to put the coaching into application. Have your mare inspected by a role-play vet by asking someone to do things that would force her to tug away or step into you. Then, apply what you've taught your mare and attempt to counter-cue her moves. If she doesn't respond correctly, do it in another spot, and when she becomes responsive bring her back to the initial location.
If your mare goes frantic during her check-up with the vet, i.e, she keeps on moving around and doesn't stand still, whether the vet has a tough time to inspect your mare thoroughly, you (and your mare and the vet) will benefit much once you've trained your mare how to be still when the vet is to test her, or better, whenever she has to stand still.
If your mare wouldn't respond accordingly for this coaching, it's either the lesson's design is not suited for the pony or is not totally and correctly implemented or the period of training isn't adequate enough for your mare to completely understand what you're trying to teach her. Depending on your mare's ability to grasp the lesson and/or on your time schedule, you can break the lessons into hours and days.
There are different lessons on teaching horses to stand still depending on what the horses do when they're not standing still: walking forward, stepping backwards, stepping into their equestrian or someone near her, pulling away; for each of these there's a different cue to work on.
When your mare is pushing forward and going past you, teach her the right spot where she should stay next to you by working on going forward and making her back up. Work on the cues for getting her head down and going forward, for cases when she's pulling back. You could benefit from having a round pen as that's where you'll work on teaching your mare to move her shoulders to be away from you. It also is great for doing outside turns to handle the issue of her stepping into you instead of standing still.
That suggests that you can teach your pony the cue to fix any wrong behaviour (motions), that is, in regard to being still for check-ups with the vet as an example. Use the cues to counter your mare's moves and remind her to wait for your cues. Work on the lessons until your mare can do them out of habit and naturally.
Once your mare is consistent in following your cues and the way in which she does it is as graceful as when she's doing a dressage maneuver, gently and with ease, you're then ready to put the coaching into application. Have your mare inspected by a role-play vet by asking someone to do things that would force her to tug away or step into you. Then, apply what you've taught your mare and attempt to counter-cue her moves. If she doesn't respond correctly, do it in another spot, and when she becomes responsive bring her back to the initial location.
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