John Chatterton Ten Steps Program – Step Eight – Accepting Spooky Objects
Everyone’s favourite step. John has it in 8th position for a good reason, because it is necessary to build your horses confidence through the first 7 Steps.
Step Eight is not intended to intimidate your horse or bombard him or to desensitise him to objects or noises.
This step is designed to teach horses that running away from spooky things is not the answer to solving their fear, even though their natural instinct is to run from danger.
John demonstrates in this video that you should provide your horse a comfort zone, and that they are safe standing still and looking at the spooky objects rather than trying to run from it.
John never forces horses towards spooky objects. Step Eight is extremely important to teach, so that when riding your horse, you will have a very safe and reliable horse beneath you.
