Considering the Horse: Tales of Problems Solved and Lessons Learned

By Mark Rashid

Own an unruly horse? Thinking about purchasing a horse but dont exactly know what to expect once you do? Ever wondered what and how a horse thinks? Mark Rashid tells stories that provide horse owners and potential buyers with the best training solutionsstraight from the horses mouth. By considering the horses point of view, he explores a variety of solutions to common training problem like head tossing, trailer loading, mounting problems, and more. After years of training and teaching, Rashid assures you that you dont need to sell that rebellious horse of yours, and theres no need to panic if you just bought a horse with a problem and dont know what to do. More likely than not, the answers are here for you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Release date: Oct 6, 2010
• ISBN: 9781628731682

Mark Rashid

Mark Rashid is an author and horse trainer. His books, such as Considering the Horse and Whole Heart, Whole Horse, follow his training philosophy, which is to find training solutions by considering the horse's point of view. The author of seven books, Rashid was featured on the PBS Nature series.

Reviews for Considering the Horse

[outdoorgirl-1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Considering The Horse is a collection of stories that outline common behavior problems, and how to fix them by viewing things through the horses' eyes and approaching them with understanding and gentleness. Rashid helps the reader to understand the psychology behind horses' seemingly mysterious behavior, the common miscommunications between horses and riders, and the widespread misconceptions that riders have. At the end of each chapter are notes that he added 20 years later, which expound on several points, teach techniques which he later learned about, and explains a few cloudy details. Very interesting and informative.