Teach Your Horse Perfect Manners: How You Should Behave So Your Horse Does Too

by Kelly Marks

This book demonstrates how to communicate with horses through eye contact and body movements, in order to teach them rules of good behavior.

Genres: Horses, Nonfiction, Animals

192 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2002

Reviews

[Hester Stasse · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loads of useful tips and exercises to solve behaviour problems in horses. Some of Kelly's views are a bit outdated, but since this book was first published in 2002, I can imagine she has updated them since.

[Veron · Rating 5 out of 5]

This helped me so much with my new horse. The exercises are well explained and easy to start as I had a Dually halter to train with.
Getting a horse to stand still can change everything. Grooming is easier, opening gates, getting shod, etc. Having a horse standing still while I move around it makes it more pleasurable. And that is just one example of manners that we have instilled from the book.
Marks' methods are so calm and peaceful.
This book will definitely be reread many times by myself.

[Jenni Ritchie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good advice.

[Lone Marquard · Rating 4 out of 5]

Meget vigtig bog, der både giver god teori for al arbejde med hesten og gode øvelser. Jeg mangler dog hjælp til det springende punkt med at komme fra jorden til sadlen.

[Belle Meade School]

797.2

[Tara · Rating 3 out of 5]

I skimmed this book, then gave it a good read. I like it, but I need more information about "Join Up" to really give it a thorough critique. I'm unclear how this differs from Parelli. Still, a lot of good info, exercises, and techniques.

[Anna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic! I especially appreciated the "Don't be rude" section in the back- applying to people interaction as well as horses. So smart.

[Kimberly Vogt]

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