Is Your Horse a Rock Star? Understanding Your Horse's Personality
Dessa Hockley
Paperback: 178 pages (2007)
BookSurge Publishing
ISBN:978-1419666056
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This charming little gem should be in every horse owner's barn. To tell the truth, we didn't have high expectations when we first picked it up - many books claiming to give you specific "training secrets" based on your horse's personality have been either non-applicable to our horses or so vague they could have really applied to any horse.
This book, however, is different. Using four combinations of personality traits - dominant/submissive, energetic/lazy, curious/afraid, or friendly/aloof - the book goes through each possible combination of the traits and looks at that horse's personality.
Each personality combo that we've matched to a particular horse has been bang on - sometimes very humorously so; the authors will leave you wondering how they know your horse so well! (That may sound clichéd, but I was shaking my head in amusement - "yup, that's my old gelding, that's my friend's mare, that's two-year-old exactly" - more than once.)
Based on the horse's personality, they then give tips on what types of training will be most effective and what types of sports will be likely to keep them happy the longest. The insights are often unique and may help you think about your particular training challenges in a different way.
A reviewer on Amazon.com states: "Very cute, easy to read and enjoyable, entertaining. No hard science here, but who cares? It's personality typing for horses, and some of it probably really does apply and might help with training issues. A great gift for a teen or adult who lives with and loves horses."
From the back:
People unfamiliar with the equestrain world might assume that "a horse is a horse, of course." But people who work or share their lives with horses are well aware that, like people, each horse has his or her own unique personality.
Is your horse a Rock Star? A Wall Flower? A Prize Fighter? A Steady Eddy? By combining the eight personality traits you will learn which of the sixteen possible horse personalities you are working with.
Are you looking for the ideal equine match? Do you want to know how to improve your partnership with a difficult mount? Are you wondering what makes a particular horse tick? Or do you just want to explore a new and informative approach to understanding horses? Fortunately, with the publication of this book, horse professionals and horse lovers everywhere now have an exceptional and light-hearted guide to help them better understand individual horses, their needs, what motivates them, what activities best suit them, how to approach their training, exercise, and even their retirement.
Benefiting from the author's extensive experience working with and rehabilitating horses across a broad spectrum of equine sports, this book is a must-read for anyone who wants to improve their relationship with and understanding of these wonderful animals.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section I The Eight Personality Traits
Dominant or Submissive
Energetic or Lazy
Curious or Afraid
Friendly or Aloof
Section II The Personality Types
DECF The Rock Star
DECA The Macho Man
DEAF The Wild Card
DEAA The Boss
DLCF The Reluctant Rock Star
DLCA The Prize Fighter
DLAF The Accountant
DLAA The Skeptic
SECF The Goddess
SECA The Worker Bee
SEAF The People Pleaser
SEAA The Perfectionist
SLCF The Steady Eddy
SLCA The Solo Artist
SLAF The Wall Flower
SLAA The Lone Wolf
Section III Quick Reference
Tools
Round Pen Training
Clicker Training
Dominant Leading
Do's and Dont's for Each Personality
The Personality Quiz
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