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By Lauren R. Giannini
Special to the Rappahannock News
“The Ultimate Horse Behavior and Training Book” by Linda Tellington-Jones really does live up to the promise made by its subtitle: “Enlightened and Revolutionary Solutions for the 21st Century.” Whether the reader hopes to harvest from Tellington-Jones trademarked “TTouch” or learn from the “A to Z Problem Solver” the lifelong horsewoman, author and teacher packages all to deliver techniques will for better harmony and partnership between horse and human.
Tellington-Jones’s background in horsemanship began in Edmonton, Alberta, where she spent her childhood in the saddle. She won the Calgary Herald Equitation Trophy three times, retiring from it when she was 15. She has competed successfully in show jumping, endurance, eventing, dressage and western.
Tellington-Jones understands horses from the inside out, and she’s aware that fear and pain are two major triggers for misbehavior. She has taught her method of horsemanship for more than 30 years in 27 countries on six continents. She advocates time, consistency and the Golden Rule - treat the horse the way you’d like to be treated. Forget about force and quick fixes that solve nothing, die writes. Think about training a good hQrse for life.
“I don’t know anyone else who keeps the Golden Rule in mind the way we do,” says Jan Snodgrass, a TTeam TTouch practitioner based in Marshall. “With Linda’s methods, you can change habitual patterns of behavior and movement by doing the TTbuches and exercises. Horse behavior is their language. So often, people pay attention only to the ears, but Linda teaches people to watch the wrinkles in the muzzle, the eye and their respiration. When you start reading the horse’s language, it allows you to figure out what’s going on and address it”
TTeam and TIbuch require time and patience, although often a handler can change the way a horse’s body moves in one session: this is the building block for rewriting the physiological memories that all
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