Discipline Suffering From Abuse Research Paper

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Rachel Phillips Amy Neuman EQS 122 Final Question 2 Discipline Differing from Abuse 2. The concept of discipline is one of major controversy in any subject. There is a thin line between discipline and abuse but if you know the difference at all you can see a very clear line between the two subjects. When the concept of discipline is applied to horses it is much like raising our children. We use it to teach them right from wrong. Horses from a young age, if they were born and raised in a stable or even a ranch, are handled and get to know humans. They are taught to move away from pressure as a safety measure. This is taught by using our hands, legs, voice, and outside aides. Those aids can be a lunge whip, spurs, crop, driving…show more content…
Depending on what they have done depends on the severity of the discipline. If they are ignoring your leg you put in more pressure and more pressure and eventually your spur. Sometimes the horse only needs to be reminded once who is boss and you will not have to do it again, but other times the horse decides to not listen and you have to keep applying pressure and your spur. Sometimes when that happens your spur can rub your horse raw and they can start to bleed. Once you get off your horse you should untack them and apply the correct meds to wash and protect the wound until it is completely healed. This is for their benefit and yours because if you do not clean the wound then it can get infected and then you cannot ride your horse and they may even die from the…show more content…
It’s a split decision that you have to make in the circumstance. With horses you have to be quick on your mental feet and be able to make those split decisions. If your horse rears and you decide to do nothing about it, they can flip over onto their back and thus can kill you and all this because you didn’t want to use spurs to protect yourself. You have to remember that horses weigh more than you, are stronger than you, and are bigger than you. The discipline measures we take are for our safety, the horses’ safety, and other peoples’ safety. I have learned a lot in the last year about discipline verses abuse. I use to think that spurs weren’t needed either or a twitch was not needed. Since I have been attending Rocky Mountain College’s Equestrian Program I have had my eyes opened to the reasons these things are used and why some horses need them. Horses have their own personalities and behaviors whether they are instinctual or learned. Since we work with them on a daily basis and they are some much bigger and stronger than us we use aids to help us train and discipline

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