LRTC Wild Horse Mentors'
WILD HORSE WORKSHOP '99
Part 8
Hue Simpson
Hue calming "Quincy"
Hue has been working with the wild horse mentors for several years. Her area of expertise involves what we call "Focus Training." It is based a great deal on TTeam methods.

The idea here is to make the horse more aware of his body and his spacial relationships to his environment and things in it, and to think and respond calmly to stimuli rather than react.

Hue, Cher and "Khia"
Working on the labyrinth

Rob Pliskin

There are a few folks involved in this project who aren't clinicians but who are always involved behind the scenes. Rob shows up before the events, always pitches in and is around for the "demobilization" activities. He's also getting pretty darn good at handling horses.
Rob gentling a "wild one"
in a squeeze chute.
(Looks like the critter is calming nicely.)
A little critique from John Sharp.
Some nice work
on the line


Wild Horse Behavior
 Wild horses are social by nature. It is their gregarious attributes which allow them to accept humans in their social world once they have learned that humans are not to be feared.

Continue to Part 9

Return to Part 7

Wild Horse Workshop Objectives

What is a mentor?

Check out the Workshop Sponsors

Album of Wild Horse Workshops

Return to LRTC Wild Horse Mentors

Return to KBR World of Wild Horses & Burros

Go To KBR Horse Net