Who can "hear" through shouting? When someone shouts at me, it sets off all sort of emotions that cloud the exchange of words/communication. Instead of being able to concentrate on what the other is "shouting" to me, I am, instead, being deluged with defensive feelings and thoughts. The horse, I imagine, is the same - when being "shouted" at, the horse is then having to concentrate of defensive responses such as, maybe even, fighting the natural flee/flight instinct. Ever see a horse prancing around at the end of the lead while the handler is shouting for him to be still??? Of course! We all have. The more that handler shouts and yanks, the more perturbed and non-cooperative the horse becomes! Not only is that horse bound at the end of the rope unable to even think about flight, the horse is quickly gearing up for base survival -- flight. If the handler were to only realize this and, instead of shouting, yanking, getting excited, simply allow the horse to move its feet as nature intended and softly reassure the horse, that horse would calm down enough to listen and act accordingly.
(It isn't the *horse* that needs training ... it's humans!)
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