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What Barnum and Bailey Didn’t Know about the Elephant

admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:07:06 +0000

For millennia, men and women have employed the great power of elephant artwork, including elephant figurines, to impart upon themselves great circumstances. Not many individuals recognise the significant symbolism the elephant works on our unconscious. Taking the prize for the largest earth-bound animal on Earth, the elephant constitutes four really remarkable traits.

Strength and Power: Sure. This dimension is quite straightforward. Hannibal employed their strength and might to almost destroy Rome. Elephants have historically been utilized to conduct massive shipments, both in reality as well as in symbol.

Perseverance: The ability to keep pushing forward despite setbacks is one of the rarest traits seen in people. And the elephant is identified throughout the world as the 1 beast that NEVER stops. Elephants are seen in sizable packs jaunting across the blistering earth to find refreshing streams and rivers. Put your elephant statuary on or close to a water source like a copper fountain in order to set the elephant in its most fortuitous habitat.

Patience / Wisdom: Elephants are easily some of the most intelligent creatures in the world, believed to have IQ’s similar to chimpanzees. With this sapience, elephants realize this and relationships are 1 of the most important attributes of endurance.

Dignity: The elephant’s size, fused with millennia of evolution, have annihilated any marks of shyness from its psyche. Unlike so many Hollywood bimbos these days, the mother elephant treasures its huge size and personifies it proudly. Elephants will not walk softly around the jungle or pipe down because they don’t want to appall other little animals. If only other humans took this page from the book of the elephant, there would not be as many psychiatrists and health gurus in the world.

The elephant is practically the bowl that holds the world’s persistence-sapience-tenacity-power soup. If you would like to eat a Persistence, Dignity, Sapience, and Power sandwich each day, without the fat and cholesterol, besiege your environment with the elephant in any way possible.

Why I Love Hog Roasts

admin — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:57:19 +0000

If you too like me detest getting a caterer and detest making sure that what they are cooking is just what you require, then there is different simpler and more striking way of catering. It’s not a new way in fact it’s over five hundred years old and in my belief is the optimal way to feed hundreds of hungry people. Having a hog roast. In England hog roasts have been a best-selling way of catering large parties or events for a really long time. Hog roasts are a lot less formal than a lot of other catering techniques and therefore is a great alternative, not only this but it is comparatively cheap regarding what you are getting. Ordinarily a hog roasting company will be able to provide you with a complete service; this includes all the cooking equipment and a chef for the day, the animal that you are roasting and all the essential side dishes. The company that i employed made sure that i had everything that i could possibly want and were really good at carving the meat and serving my invitees, i found this company on the internet, the chef turned up at my home (where i was having my party) in more than enough time to cook the hog in time for when i wanted to eat. I hope that the next time you have a party or event that you will think of having a hog roast.

Hog Roast Catering

admin — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:22:47 +0000

A recommendation from a family member or friend is a good way of finding a wedding or outside hog roast caterer. They can be hard to cook at times and the ovens can be temperamental therefore a knowledgeable spit roast company should be sought out. A good hog roast is usually the centre piece of your party, something your invitees will talk about for years to come. Ideally your hog should be prepared from fresh on site, so make sure your caterer offers this.Google is a great way of finding a specialized hog/spit roast company. Don’t be afraid to ask questions. You can usually get a good feel whether the catering company is experienced by asking a few relevant questions. Book early, at least 3 months in advance if you can as hog roasting has become so popular most companies are fully booked for the summer and Xmas before it gets to the end of May. But above all relish the thought of the tastiest, most juicy piece of meat you’ve ever had dripping with mouth watering juices and the crispiest golden brown crackling you’ve ever consumed, once you’ve had spit roasted pork you won’t be able to go back. Enjoy!

Understanding – The First Of The 6 Keys To Building A Life Long Partnership With Your Horse

admin — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:04:19 +0000

Yesterday we talked a little about the 6 Keys for a
Life Long Partnership with your horse, today I would
like to visit with you about the first key,
*Understanding.*

Have you ever wondered why your horse acts like he does
how he thinks and moves? If so, then you need to
understand the prey-predator relationship, but before
we start it’s important that you understand, if your
going to effectively communicate with horses you need
to *think like horses*. You need to look at and approach
everything from the *horse’s point of view*.

If you understand that horses are prey animals and that
*horses perceive people as predators* and realize that
each thinks differently, you can begin to understand how
your horse thinks, acts and moves, and why you react the
way you do. Understand, Both the horse and human are
simply considering all factors then adjusting to the
situation.

If you understand that horses are Prey animals by nature,
are programmed to be cowards and are herd fear-flight
animals, in other words when they perceive danger they
run and continue running until they feel they have
escaped the danger, then you can begin to develop a
deeper apreciation of why your horse acts, thinks and
moves like he does.

To horses we *humans* look and smell like *predators*.
If your going to communicate with your horse in an
effective manner then it’s necessary to prove to your
horse that you are not a predator. You need to
understand what type of behavior you need to show if
you are to get a certain behavior from your horse.

Once the horse accepts that you are not as bad as you
seem and you are not a predator he becomes gentle, in
other words he no longer perceives you to be dangerous.

In a herd of horses there is always a pecking order
and once your horse decides that you are not a danger
to him he will put you in a pecking order to fit into
his world (remember all of this is about the horse his
world and perceptions not yours) you will be placed
higher or lower depending on respect and authority.

*Remember the horse is a prey animal and is supposed to
act the way he does.** It’s your task to help him act
less like a prey animal and more like a partner. To
accomplish this you need your horse to be sensitive or
aware of your cues and communication rather than danger.

You need to turn his flight from fear reaction into
forward motion or impulsion. You have to work at getting
him to want to be with you, to take the herd instinct
and turn it into bonding with you.

The concepts you and I have discussed today are much
easier said than done. Why, because horses and humans
think differently and this is often a source of
conflict.

Let’s wrap up what we have discussed today. You will
gain respect from our horse if you uphold your
responsibilities which are: Not act like a predator,
be where you need to be emotionally when communicating
with our horse, to think like a horse and not a human
and focus on where you are headed and what you want to
do, if you do your horse will sense this, respect you
and follow you as the leader.

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In the next article we will discuss Mind Set; Your
Attitude= How you communicate. Being assertive
vs.aggressive and being evenhanded. Your mind-set
(attitude) affects the mind-set (attitude) of your
horse.

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About The Author:

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around horses. His dad, Mike Sr., taught him the
importance of understanding the horse and how to use a
firm, but kinder and gentler approach to helping horses
understand what it is we humans are trying to
communicate.

Communicating With Your Dog – Tips for Better Training

admin — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:44:20 +0000

Training your dog is a lot like studying foreign languages. The first one is very difficult and confusing, the second one a little easier, and so on. With a little time and a lot of patience it can be done. Armed with only a leash, a few treats to act as “rewards” for good behavior, a quiet secluded spot, and 10 or 15 minutes a day, results can be positive.

The following list of training tips are very useful and have proven effective with all breeds:

- Schedule your dog’s lesson everyday at the same time and in the same place. Repetition is one of the key elements in training.

- Be enthusiastic. Make training fun. Good memories aren’t easily forgotten.

- Be authoritive, insist on a higher standard of obedience during lessons than at ordinary times. Don’t ask your dog to do something, tell him firmly.

- Use your tone of voice to help get your message across, a clear firm voice for commands, an enthusiastic one for encouragement, a cheerful one for approval, and a minor, low tone for disapproval. Nothing is accomplished by a loud voice or yelling.

- Start each lesson by reviewing what your dog already knows, and praise him for his good performance, even for his well-meaning efforts. Praise him for the slightest thing that he does right.

- Be as concentrated and observant during training sessions as you expect your dog to be. Then you will be able to anticipate his moves, to encourage him when he is on the right track, and to discourage mistakes before he makes them.

- Never proceed to difficult tasks until your dog has mastered the more elementary ones. It is much more useful for you to be certain that he will obey three or four simple commands than it is to hope that he will obey ten or twenty if he happens to feel like it.

- Follow each lesson with a moment of play then rest.

- Persuade the other members of your family to give the identical commands and to use the same terms of encouragement if they want to help with the training.

- Don’t let your dog forget what he has learned, nor confine his obedience to lesson times. Use the commands he has been trained to obey whenever possible. That is what training is all about, to teach your dog good behavior and manners by repetition.