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Finally -- and I have been waiting for years -- a book that underlies all training with the behavioral "instincts" of the horse. No easy feat, believe me, but Dr. Nock pulls it off. This book does two things: it challenges us to turn away from rigid training molds that ignore the instincts of the horse, and, which, therefore, deprive us of honest communication with the animal (the point of Chapter 7 in my own book, The Natural Horse); it then invites us into the "mold" of the horse's mind, so to speak, where "step by step" the equestrian is guided toward realizing his or her equestrian goals in true, two-way communication. Although at times delightfully humorous, Ten Golden Rules is a serious and systematic treatise on natural horsemanship which should take its rightful place along the standard texts of the natural horse care movement. Dr. Nock is an AANHCP Orientation Clinician. See his website for additional reviews of his book. |
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