Josh Foster-The Equine's Partner-Training

Josh's training fee includes board, blanketing if needed, hay, cleaning,
turnout, and being worked 6 times a week for a minimum of 45
minutes depending on how the animal's mind is. (He always finishes
with the animal in a positive frame of mind. Some problem animals
may take a lot longer each day.) Josh strongly recommends that
owners take lessons with him during the end of the training session
to learn the specific cues that their animal has been taught.

Josh will work with the animal the first day they come in, before they
get put away, so that they have a quiet mind once they are all settled in
their paddock. He desensitizes them to ropes all around their body,
gains control of their front end, as well as hind end, gets them supple
in the body and depending on the animal will usually get on them all in
that first day. It usually takes him about 30-45 minutes for this whole
process to take place.

By the end of the 30-days, you usually have a very solid, confident and
willing partner; who, is very soft in the bridle and extremely
responsive to leg and seat cues. He exposes the animal to many
different situations with confidence and leadership, thus giving the
animal confidence to handle the situation. He is very open to owners
watching the training sessions from the start and strongly
encourages them to ask questions. Everything is started in a halter
and then switched to a snaffle bit. He only rides his animals in halters,
bosals, and loose ring or D-ring snaffles. He firmly believes that every
animal can be ridden this way and doesn't need the harsher measures
of twisted wires, gag bits, etc.

In this area, he now has a number of trainers that send him their client
horses and personal horses to start because they come back being
so much further along than most animals after 30-days.

By the end of the training session, your equine should walk, trot and
lope comfortably, soft and relaxed. He should stop nicely, back and
turn over the hocks. He should be comfortable being ridden both in
and out of the roundpen, arena and on the trail. He will have a rope
swung off of it and been exposed to obstacles you would normally find
out on the trail. He should have a respect for humans on the ground
and in the saddle.