Zombie Ranch 248 – Nothing To Rapport

A month or so before I drew this page, I showed Clint a documentary on Buck Brannaman . I remember hearing about him when I was a teenager and was fascinated by how he didn’t use the typical techniques to train horses. I always loved horses, as a kid we had a neighbor who owned horses and cattle. He was a very kind man and he wanted to try to break a horse (for saddle and halter), but didn’t want to use most of the cruel techniques. So he decided to try water breaking the horse because that was the only way he knew how to break a horse with less cruelty/fear. He later learned of the Buck’s methods on training and breaking a horse and quickly signed up for a workshop. Our neighbor returned and happily taught his family and me what he learned. I used some of those methods on the horse I got later (named Popcorn).

Later I learned of Temple Grandin and I admired her “lets learn the cattle’s behavior and think like the cattle” method. Instead of fighting cattle, she used the cattle’s natural behavior to help control and move them.

Clint (the writer of Zombie Ranch) liked it when I suggested that Suzie would  do something similar with herding zombies. Understand the zombie’s behavior and use it to help get them to do what you want…like not bite you.