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I always laugh and say I brought my sons and nephews and nieces up just like horses, and the dogs we use in our ...
By Elizabeth Wiley on Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2016
I took classes, out at Pat Parelli's Stockton ranch years ago................and one of them was with Dr. Miller.........it has helped me with the CHILDREN and single parents I work with as well........I always laugh and say I brought my sons and nephews and nieces up just like horses, and the dogs we use in our therapy programs..............but when a veterinarian comes to treat a high powered race horse, and says, WOW, I love treating your horses because they are so well behaved............or when a different veterinarian comes to treat a young colt, and says WOW, what an amazing difference from most young horses...........or your three dogs, also imprinted from three weeks old go to their veterinarian filled with curiosity and good behavior.......even AFTER being spayed and neutered...........I thank Dr. Miller..........I learned a lot of it in foal imprinting classes...................if you get a chance to see Dr. Miller, or Pat doing foal imprinting, it is awesome..............my younger son and I have trained out baby horses at the track and for show barns for over 30 years now, and whether 2 year old babies, or ten year old babies, we start them over and give them a base that pays off.............one trainer told me when we discovered we had trained an abused track rescue she had gotten was one we had trained some years before........that the moment she used Natural Horsemanship techniques with what she had been told was a vicious and violent horse................he reverted immediately and she had said to herself, someone truly loved this horse once........and we did. and we thank Dr. Miller's techniques and training for starting that colt, so years later, after abuse and who knows what, he returned to it immediately when he found it again in his life. I love to report, this horse lived out his entire life with the young girl he was sold to, she used to send pictures of him to my son, as he had truly loved that little colt when he came in, a syndicate owned Kentucky Derby bound horse that was sold down after his back was injured by the owners insisting he be raced too young..............that girl promised that she would keep him for life, or sell him to my son. Once in awhile a happy ending does happen and we thank Dr. Miller for training us to help horses start and remember good care and good habits.
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DON'T BUY THIS BOOK
By "lynn60" on Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2002
The name of the book suggests Robert Miller's distinct lack in the understanding of behaviour. True imprint training would involve the foal looking upon the human, which is carrying out the technique, as its mother. Miller writes that his technique is based on the foal being submissive to the human, by nature horses will challenge a dominant figure in order to progress up the pecking order- this could be very dangerous when the foal has grown if it starts to attack humans. Miller also recommends that the first part of the technique being carried out in the first 45 minutes of the foals life, before it has even stood up, which involves repeatedly (50 times is recommended) sticking fingers in the foals ears, nose, anus and rubbing hands and clippers all over the body. Within this time the foal should be finding its feet and the mares teats for its first feed of colostrum in order to give it immune protection. The video shows Miller entering the stable of a mare and her 12-day-old foal. The foal had been pushy for the past five days and Millers way of rectifying this was to kick the foal until it stopped reacting to the kicking. Are we really to assume that the foal will connect this beating administered while he was quite in the stable with his mum, with his bad behaviour in the past few days? I find this unlikely and am more inclined to think that the foal will associate humans coming in his stable with pain. Is this something we really want to achieve with our foals? Miller's explanation for this punishment is that, in the wild, stallions will kick pushy foals to put them in their place. This again demonstrates Miller's lack of understanding of equine behaviour as the mare is the one who puts the foal in its place and always immediately after the undesired behaviour has occurred, the stallion has little to do with the foals. Regular handling of foals and gradually introducing them to different stimuli is important in the creating of a well-rounded individual BUT consider the relationship you want to you want to create with your youngster and whether its to be based on a potentially dangerous dominant-submissive foundation or one of trust. Please think long and hard before further lining the pockets of this man who in my opinion is promoting animal abuse.
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