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Every time you interact with a horse, you are teaching the horse.

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Buck Brannaman
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 29
Horse Trainer
Non-Fiction Writer
Sheboygan
Wisconsin
Interact
Horse
Teaching
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Most people think of a feel as when you touch something or someone and what it feels like to your fingers but, a feel can have a thousand different definitions. Sometimes feel is a mental thing. Sometimes feel can happen clear ‘cross the arena. Sort of an invitation from the horse to come to you.
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When you first get started, you're the only one with a vision. When you become creative and use your imagination, pretty soon the things you imagined, you can get done. If you got a taste of it, if you got a taste of what I'm talking about, you'd rather do that than eat. You couldn't get enough of it. You'll hunger for it the rest of your life.
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