Turning Challenging Horses Into Willing Partners
I’m Susan Allen welcome to Open Range, I am constantly observing people in conflict with their horses and wonder why their horses, for better lack of a word “act out”. Nanette Levin author of the book Turning Challenging Horses into Willing Partners told me these animals are often simply reflecting their owners personality. Stay tuned. In laymen’s terms Nanette Levin runs a halfway house for troubled horses. The author of the book, Turning Challenging Horses into Willing Partners rehabilitates difficult horses. When I caught up with this accomplished trainer at her farm in upstate New York she explained to me that while each horse is unique the keys to helping them often lie with observing their owners.
Levin, “Horses have their own personalities and you can certainly identify a timid, frightened or strong willed horse pretty quickly by their behavior but what you can also do is get a bit of a read on the people they are around because horses tend to mirror the human emotions and energies that are going on.”
I might need to take a good look in the mirror because Mighty Mouse, my little heel horse can be explosive and ornery, the reason I bought Levin's book (available at her website www.BookConductors.com and Amazon.) because it offers practical tips and solutions for tough horses. She also pulls no punches telling owners when they are in over their heads. One reviewer called Turning Challenging Horses, the Dr. Spock baby book for new horse owners, because they’ll understand the things that can set a horse on the wrong path for life.”
