Imagine A Hinny?

Allen Pogue is both a cyberspace personality with a couple of Yahoo discussion groups under his reins and a totally out of the ordinary horsetrainer. I posted a video about his training a few days ago, so you might have an idea of what a fantastic trainer he is, but I am telling you now that he is also a really down to earth, nice guy. He has a way of just making you feel good about life.

The website for his training business is: ImagineAHorse.com. He sells some very unique and useful training tools. If you do bridge and target training, his whips with balls on them are fantastic, and if you want a long lash circus ring whip.... well, you can find it there too. I haven't seen the DVDs, being a little underfunded at this point in my life, but the people on the ImagineAHorse training forum rave about them. He has beanbags to teach your horse to sit on, and giant balls with cordura covers that make them the sturdiest horse toy around. You won't find another horse gear store like it anywhere.

If you haven't guessed by now, I should just come out and tell you: The HinnyWhisperer likes to gossip about Horsetrainers! Are you really suprised? ... so with that in mind, Here is what Paul Dufresne has to say about Allen Pogue after I told Paul that Allen was saying nice things about him on his forum:

Haven't had a chat with Allen in a while. I have always liked him even if I wasn't keen on some of the approaches he is always thinking and ready to adapt if something better presents itself. I think this is one of the greatest attributes of a trainer, is to be able to recognize when a change is necessary and also if someone has a worthy idea to STEAL it if it makes it easier for our horses. To do that we have to be humble and keep our egos in check. He also is very creative and puts a lot of thought into preparing for patterns by himself when most would need several helpers. I really do look forward to actually meeting him in person. We have shared a lot of thoughts I would be totally surprised if we didn't get along and have some serious fun playing with horses.

Last year I tried to arrange to get Allen and Paul together for a clinic at my place, but it wasn't to happen. If it had, they would both now be training Hinnys instead of Andalusians.

Here are the links to Allens discussion groups, where I post as HinnyWhisperer:
ImagineAHorse; and
Horse Training, both at Yahoo Groups.

The Hinny Whisperer approves of Allen Pogue for:
• devoting a lot of time to helping people through his moderation of public forums on horse training;
• being totally practical on a totally out-of-the-ordinary subject;
• being positive about horses and people 100% of the time.

The Hinny Whisperer disapproves of Allen Pogue for tempting me to trot out my credit card to buy his cool stuff.


UPDATE 9/2019: Allen has moved to Pietown, NM, which is in the middle of nowhere. He's on FaceBook. Check out his trick training book!