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Life Lessons from a Ranch Horse: With a New Afterword by the Author
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Product Description In this heartwarming and instructive book of horsemanship, highly-respected horse trainer Mark Rashid shares what he learned from a very special, and very challenging, horse. Through a lot of hard work, Mark comes to understand the potential for powerful communication that exists when two beings take the time to understand each other. Although his realizations are inspired by work with horses, readers will discover that Rashid’s six guidelines for interaction can improve our relationships with the people in our lives as well. In this second edition of the beloved title, with a new brand-new afterword, Rashid invites us to enjoy his all-new reflections on the lessons learned from a life spent with horses. About the Author Mark Rashid is an author and horse trainer. His books, such as Considering the Horse and Whole Heart, Whole Horse, follow his training philosophy, which is to find training solutions by considering the horse's point of view. The author of seven books, Rashid was featured on the PBS Nature series. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Life Lessons from a Ranch Horse By Mark Rashid Skyhorse Publishing Copyright © 2011 Mark Rashid All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-61608-340-3 Contents Foreword by Harry Whitney, Preface, Introduction, PART ONE: LESSONS, School Starts, The Teacher Speaks, Recognizing the Problem, Lesson One: Non-Confrontation, Lesson Two: Planning Ahead, Lesson Three: Patience, Lesson Four: Persistence, Lesson Five: Consistency, Lesson Six: Fix It and Move On, PART TWO: DAY WORK, Working Together, The Path, Positive Conflicts, Blending, Balance, Communication, Practice, The Beginner, PART THREE: BUCK'S LEGACY, One Last Ride, Afterword, CHAPTER 1 School Starts I had just fed our four horses, three in the corral and one in the barn, and the one in the barn wasn't eating. A horse not eating at feeding time is almost always something to be concerned about, and if it were any other horse, I might have been alarmed. The other horses were already pinning their ears, squealing, and running each other off the three piles of hay, one for each horse. As was their ritual, for the next five minutes or so they'd play a sort of musical chairs with the piles, moving each time the smallest one of the bunch — a little 14.2-hand, line-back dun gelding named Tuff — decided he needed some hay from a different pile. With ears pinned, he would head over to the closest pile and chase off Red, a 16-hand sorrel gelding that dwarfed Tuff. Red would, in turn, pin his ears at Quincy, a 15-hand gelding eating quietly at the third pile, sending him over to the pile Tuff had abandoned at the beginning. They'd all settle back down until Tuff decided to move to the next pile, starting the whole thing over. While it was fun watching those three sort out their eating arrangements for the evening meal, it was the gelding in the barn that had my attention. He was an old horse, Buck. At twenty-three years old, he was beginning to show his age. Only a few months earlier, I had retired him from ranch work and given him to my youngest son, Aaron. I'd recently taken Buck off the winter pasture, because he wasn't faring as well as I liked. Although he wasn't really thin, it was obvious that he wasn't doing as well as the others on the pasture. He was a hard-keeper to begin with, and any time he started to lose weight it raised a red flag for me. I brought Buck home so I could supplement his diet and maybe get him to put on a few pounds. Buck stood in his run just outside the barn and stared at me. He watched my every move, occasionally shifting his weight from one hind leg to the other. Even though I'd just put his nightly share of pellets in his stall, he completely ignored them, a behavior that would worry most folks. A horse not eating, especially his extra feed, usually meant something serious was going on, colic maybe. But I could tell that Buck wasn't sick. He was just tryi
