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    How To Find Free or Nearly Free Horses
    How To Find Free or Nearly Free Horses
    How To Find Free or Nearly Free Horses
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    How To Find Free or Nearly Free Horses

    By Marv Walker

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    If you want a horse in your life there are many Free Or Nearly Free Horses available no matter where you live if there are horses in your area.

    Many life changes often occur where new situations must be found for the horse. Divorce, illness, job loss, children going off to college and other similar events can quickly turn a horse from a blessing to a burden.

    Horses are very difficult to sell and owners are often desperate for quicker options.

    This book tells you all you need to know to easily make someone else's burden your blessing.

    Written by a horseman who knows horses with 60 years of horse experience working at riding stables, world known horse problem solving clinician and long time president of a large saddle club.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMarv Walker
    Release dateJun 27, 2013
    ISBN9781301502745
    How To Find Free or Nearly Free Horses
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    Marv Walker

    I have been horse crazy for 60+ years. For reasons too involved to go into here I have always had a special attachment for the "problem" horse. For over two decades I have been helping people and horses around the world quickly past attention, trust, fear and respect issues in private work, clinics, web pages, videos and ebooks. Traditionally people bring horses from a herd setting geared toward the individual's needs into a social setting geared toward the needs of the group. This results in a "happy medium" relationship - as long as neither party does anything the other can't live with, they're fine. When they can't work out a suitable happy medium, the horse gets replaced. I teach people to control their horses by going into the horse world and quickly connecting with it there using the horse's natural dynamics then bringing the horse into the human world along with its natural dynamics. The "happy medium" relationship is replaced with a connected, communicating relationship. Because the horse knows what is expected of it and knows it can do what is expected of it, the relationship is never broken.

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      How To Find Free or Nearly Free Horses - Marv Walker

      How To Find

      Free Or Nearly Free Horses

      By

      Marv Walkerhttp://MarvWalker.com

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

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      Marv Walker on Smashwords

      How To Find Free Or Nearly Free Horses

      Copyright © 2000-2013 by Marv Walker

      Thank you for downloading this ebook. This ebook remains the copyrighted property of the author and may not be reproduced, scanned, or distributed for any commercial or non-commercial use without permission from the author. Quotes used in reviews are the exception. No alteration of content is allowed. If you enjoyed this book, then encourage your friends to download their own copy.

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      *****

      Thank you for purchasing this How To Find Free Or Nearly Free Horses eBook.

      This book assumes that you know little about horses. If you are very horse-savvy a lot of this stuff may be old hat to you. Even at that it contains some things that you may simply not have heard of or simply overlooked in your horse experiences.

      I personally had been involved with horses for over 40 years before I became fully aware that there were perfectly good horses all over the place available just for the asking.

      In looking back, I'm simply amazed that someone who had the horse experience I had never realized that the asking price of a horse has little bearing on the selling price. Having always wheeled and dealed and scraped money together for a horse had locked me into a mindset that limited my ability to acquire horses.

      All that changed 20 years or so ago when I got involved with the therapeutic riding program of a children's home. I gave away a pasture-full of good horses to the program and when the program director said they could use more, I decided to see if I could find some more people willing to give away a horse.

      The success I had is the inspiration for this book.

      This book is an overview of how horses are really acquired and disposed of every day. Regardless of your horse experience the material in this book will show you how to find more free or nearly free horses than you ever thought possible.

      If there is anything that is unclear or you feel can be improved let me know. Feel free to ask me any questions or make any comments or suggestions.

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      How To Find Free Or Nearly Free Horses

      *****

      Chapter 1 Some Things You Need To Keep In Mind

      First..

      Horses are very dangerous animals.

      They are nothing like you see on TV, read in all the fantasy fiction or like the animal that gallops through your dreams.

      I once saw the late Michael Landon performing as Little Joe from Bonanza at a rodeo. He selected several young children from the stands and pretended to shoot them so they could die like the bad guys on TV. One of the boys took a good five minutes staggering, falling and flopping before he threw his arms out, fell back on his back and just laid there. Michael went over and helped the boy to his feet and then began brushing off the boy’s back. He then turned to the crowd and said, Horses on TV don’t do that.

      You can see a lot of things about horses on TV that are not true about horses.

      I once worked with a man who told me about his family’s horse weekend mostly out of an attempt to have something in common I guess. He said that he and his family had spent the weekend at a friend’s ranch. The friend only raised black stallions. The friend had baby stallions, mama stallions and daddy stallions. He and his family rode his friend’s black stallions all weekend.

      You can hear a lot of things about horses from people that aren’t true.

      It is in your best interest that you continually learn all you can about horses no matter how much you already know about them.

      You can learn half of everything there is to know about horses in about a year. Then you can learn half of what’s left to learn about horses in about another year. And so on until you get to be my age and not learning much new but what you do learn is incredibly profound.

      Knowledge is insurance. The more you learn about horses the more enjoyable your horse experiences are going to be. Horses are living beings and as such there are no guarantees that all will turn out well. Even the most knowledgeable of horse people have setbacks and problems at times. The more knowledge you have the more options you have available to hopefully ward off possible problems or to deal with them when you find yourself in the midst of them.

      Horses are a very dangerous pastime . On a percentage basis more people are injured around horses than in any other activity.

      It is not a question of whether you will be injured, but when and how often. Let me say that again... It is not a question of whether you will be injured, but when and how often.

      If you are involved with horses you will be injured and those injuries can range from barely noticeable to death. I myself have been seriously injured by horses and I know people who have been killed during horse activities.

      Knowledge is incredibly important at all times but more so when involved with horses.

      But, if you have horses in your blood, these warnings won’t stop you. Hopefully they will make you more cautious.

      Chapter 2 The Attraction Of Horses

      Wild horses galloping unrestrained, and unconcerned over rugged terrain visually define the words: freedom, grace and beauty. The horse represents freedom and the ability to go where we please. Horses are the stars of folklore, daydreams and fantasies where the successful quest for victory, romance and living happily ever after, often requires a spirited steed. In our dream worlds, the horse carries us wherever we wish, where we do whatever we choose.

      To have a relationship with a horse is to have a hold on our dreams.

      Women outnumber men in the world of horses. Someone will ask me where I get the figures that enable me to say that. I get the figures from years of observing numerous saddle

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