Thank you, Sylvia, for all you do for the

horses in the world today!

 

Sylvia Scott has taught us here at the Roanoke Valley Horse Rescue that, "The only emotions one should ever bring into the training arena are: infinite patience, endless empathy and a grand sense of humor. Negative emotions, such as anger or impatience or force or brutality have no place whatsoever in horse training." Now, one of the signs we have posted at our rescue center for all visitors, volunteers, potential adopters and others to see before coming in to visit with the rescue horses at our facility, states exactly that! These are words which are so very true for the success of the rehabilitation of any abused or neglected horse - or any horse for that matter!

As Resident Trainer now at the RVHR, upon our invitation, Sylvia Scott gives her heart and time to our rescue horses, many of which are in great need of learning to trust the human once again, indeed one of Sylvia's greatest training fortes. Sylvia also gives openly to each human who has had the opportunity to watch her at work demonstrating a new type of knowledge when training a horse: natural horsemanship. We have all learned watching Sylvia that horses indeed can be successfully trained gently, compassionately, with great respect - and with a tremendous amount of love.

After watching Sylvia take on the challenge of working with many of RVHR's initally most difficult-to-handle horses, I am still amazed each time I witness the instant transformation. These horses which the equine society has often said, "We give up on them; we can’t do anything with them, you are a throw-away horse!" Sylvia proves them wrong as she puts her special talents to work for hour’s non-stop with each of the horses on their individual level of trust and learning level; and Sylvia initiates the remarkable turn-around every time. To see a horse stop fighting, or stop fearing, and instead, for the first time, look towards Sylvia with hope and trust, and say, "Hey, she isn’t going to hurt me, maybe I can go and be with her!" is always so moving for us to witness. From that point forward, they start on a new journey into a life filled with love, trust and feeling safe once again, as they become happy horses who make wonderful partners to their new adoptive owners.

If you have an opportunity to watch Sylvia Scott work on join-up with a horse and then watch her apply her natural horsemanship training techniques, don’t miss out! It is truly something to behold.

Thank you, Sylvia, for all you do for the horses in the world today.

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