1. WDMS library materials are available to members for 30-day loan.

2. The member pays the postage for receiving and returning the materials.
3. To check out materials or for more info, contact:
                Dian Pinney at star@maqs.net or 608-587-2571
4. Also contact Dian if you have mule/donkey materials to donate to the club library.

Purchase Brad Cameron materials at muletrainer.com

• Basic mule info and how to choose a riding mule
• How to catch a mule
• Equipment needed for groundwork training
• Terminology used in mulemanship and more

• Halter driving
• Accepting the lead rope and sacking out
• How to build confidence with the lariat
• How to build control with the lariat

• How to establish manners from the ground
• How to use the training flag
• How to progress to the lariat
• How to start backing a mule from the ground

• Saddling a colt
• Transitions
• Fence work
• Achieving the mental connection

• Transitions
• Pre-ride groundwork
• Mounting a colt
• First ride on a colt

• Stopping
• Backing
• Neck reining
• Riding without reins, etc.

Purchase John Lyons materials at johnlyons.com

• Teach horse to stand still without a halter and lead
• Teach a cue to ask your horse to come back to you
• Teach horse to drop his head
• Stop head tossing
• Wash your horse's face
• Teach horse to accept pressure on poll
• Teach horse to accept blanketing

• Developing the attention span for safe and correct leading
• The 20 steps to complete round pen training
• Understanding body language in the round pen
• Evaluating training methods

• Sacking the horse out
• Advanced leading
• Improving ground manners - solving all kinds of leading problems and horses who don't want to move in the round pen
• Longeing - solutions to various problems
• The WESN lesson, a directional control exercise
• Working young foals in the round pen
• Teaching horse to back up and walk forward on cue

• Horses that drag you off
• Horses that pull back
• Picking up horse's feet safely
• Biting stallions
• Bridling suggestions
• Comments on twitching
• How to give shots easily
• Mounting / dismounting
• Teaching horse to stand while you get on

• Teaching horse to stop whenever rider gets off balance
• Understanding the baby give, good give and great give that John teaches
• The 9 rooms of the horse and how to have control of specific muscle groups
• Steadying your hands and the importance of this when training the baby give, good give and great give

• More on understanding "giving to the bit"
• Breaking at the poll
• Importance of repetition - giving left and right
• Controlling horse's body through the reins by understanding recognition, response, then control
• How to pick up leads correctly
• The active / reactive relationship between us and our horse - how to change the horse into the one that responds to us rather than us reacting to what they do
• Horses that spook

• The rider who has lost his / her confidence
• Basic and advanced "control" exercises
• Overcoming problems such as rearing and buddy sour
• Rating speed work for the slow jog and slow canter
• Teaching horses to back
• Stops
• Rollbacks
• Spins

Purchase Pat Parelli materials at parelli.com