-- In equineassisted@yahoogroups.com, "jj_ranch2002"
<jj_ranch2002@...> wrote:
>
> I would like to get some of you horse people out there who run riding
> lesson programs along with EAP programs. My question is do you use
> your horses that you use for riding lessons and also use them for
> EAP? Or do you have horses you use for riding lessons and seperate
> horses you use for EAP? And why??
>
> I have only been at my new job for 3 months. It is a residential
> program for kids and they have been doing EAP for 4 years. They have
> a new horse person who is doing the riding lessons, she may have been
> there for a year or less. This person went to one of the trainings
> for OK Corral but did not like it and felt it was too hard on the
> horses. She observed an activity during one of the EAP sessions
> (using only the older mares who are no longer used for riding
> lessons) and observed a group of male adolescents using a piece of
> PVC pipe and a plastic milk crate to make noise to make the horses
> move (Lesson was Equine Billiards) She felt that the noise the boys
> made was too disturbing to use the lesson horses and that it would
> ruin them as they are younger horses and would react more to the
> noise.
>
> I am just wondering how other people see EAP used and if any of you
> feel there is any "damage" that might be done to lesson horses for
> riding and should not be used for EAP.
>
> Courious.........Char


Hi Char -

I use my horses for both and have no problem. Of course, all horses
are individuals, so if a certain activity bothers them, just change
the activity. The possibilities are endless. I find that the horses
love to cooperate in whatever we want to do , as a rule.
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