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Willis, who is the founder and President of LRTC, considers himself a student of horse behavior and enjoys working with difficult horses, especially those whom others have given up on. His emphasis is on techniques that the average adopter can master safely. His
mainstay with wild horses is his "Quiet Hour" approach where for the first hour, the handler remains low key and lets the horse explore and understand the human in his pen.
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Letting the horse discover people
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The idea behind the "Quiet Hour" is to spark curiosity, not flight.
If in the horse's mind he is not about to be pursued by the
human, he can start to constructively interact in his new
environment.
The bay horse pictured here was the oldest horse in the adoption. By the second session he could be handled all over and would allow his feet to be picked up on lead and off lead.
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Hands on in a very few minutes
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