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M.J. Evans
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In the Heart of a Mustang
Teens
Author Insight
Training a Horse
When I was doing research for "In the Heart of a Mustang," I attended two Clinton Anderson horse training clinics. I have trained all my horses myself but I have never started with a wild mustang! Clinton Anderson talked a lot about the two sides of a horse's brain, the thinking side and the reacting side. So, I used this in the book. It also made me think about people. We tend to be the same way. We often react without thinking. The wiser we become, the more thinking we do and the less reacting!
Book Excerpt
In the Heart of a Mustang
“Do horses sleep?”
“Yeah. But Smokey once told me they only sleep for short snatches at a time, part of their survival instinct. They can even sleep standing up. I guess their knees and hocks can lock so they don’t fall over.”
“Really?”
“That’s what Smokey said.”
“Hum-m-m,” Hunter responded as he stared toward the black night trying to encroach on their cabin through the window. “Do you think she remembers her training from today?”
“Remember what Smokey says about the two sides of the horse’s brain…the thinking side and the reacting side?”
“Yeah.”
“Well, our job is to help them develop more of the thinking side. Seems to me that the better we do that the more they remember.”
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