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how do you teach a horse to lounge?
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<blockquote data-quote="cowpunk&#039;d" data-source="post: 125010" data-attributes="member: 1265"><p>It's easy to start a horse lounging if it's halter trained, you just have to stay behind the horses eye and use the end of the rope or a whip/stick to push it forward away from you. Of course you wont get a nice round circle at first and you will have to keep yourself in the right position relative to the horse till it figures out what you want. That means you have to keep moving to that position behind the horses eye and pushing it forward until it stops trying to face you and walk up to you, which is probably what it's doing. Be aggressive enough to push the horse off but not so aggressive that you scare her into trying to leave, and tell her she's good when she makes a right move. When she catches on you can push her shoulder to move her away from you to make a bigger circle. To push her shoulder you might have to touch with the whip first, then just pointing the whip at her shoulder will move her out onto a bigger circle. Eventually just you looking at that shoulder will move her out. To whoa, say whoa and step infront of her eye, then walk up to her and praise her.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cowpunk'd, post: 125010, member: 1265"] It's easy to start a horse lounging if it's halter trained, you just have to stay behind the horses eye and use the end of the rope or a whip/stick to push it forward away from you. Of course you wont get a nice round circle at first and you will have to keep yourself in the right position relative to the horse till it figures out what you want. That means you have to keep moving to that position behind the horses eye and pushing it forward until it stops trying to face you and walk up to you, which is probably what it's doing. Be aggressive enough to push the horse off but not so aggressive that you scare her into trying to leave, and tell her she's good when she makes a right move. When she catches on you can push her shoulder to move her away from you to make a bigger circle. To push her shoulder you might have to touch with the whip first, then just pointing the whip at her shoulder will move her out onto a bigger circle. Eventually just you looking at that shoulder will move her out. To whoa, say whoa and step infront of her eye, then walk up to her and praise her. [/QUOTE]
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