Horse Problem - Horse ever too old to train? - Is a spooky horse too old to train the spooks out?
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QUESTION: Hi Sylvia, I bought your Round Pen Leadership and Whispering Way™ 12-Step Total Training System DVDs and am using your program on my 7-month-old colt. He's doing wonderfully! I am thinking about buying a 7-year-old paint gelding. He has been ridden on trails and in the pen and is pretty good, but seems to spook a lot (like when a sweatshirt slips off being tied to a waist and lands on the back of the saddle). My question is: If a horse has not had good foundation training, desensitizing, and has quite a few years of being spooky, is that ingrained in his nature or can I work with him to gain trust and be less sensitive? He's a very beautiful horse.
REPLY: No, that isn't permanently ingrained in his nature at all, someone just skipped over it. If you decide to get him, just back him up and run him through the training steps in my program, and those foundation holes should get closed up nicely for you. I've honestly never run across a horse for sale (that I haven't trained myself) that doesn't have foundation holes of some kind, to be quite honest. And plugging them into my program closes them up smoothly, no matter what the age/experience is of the horse. Horses are incredibly adaptable creatures and they live in the "now" spot at all times. You create a new "now" and they settle in nicely. I have honestly never run across a horse that was "too old to train." Oldest horse I completely retrained (who was a real mess when he first came to me) was 28!! And he's doing fantastic now. But you can do it, too, yourself, just following my program.
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