Sheri Schneeberger

Sheri Schneeberger has been a lover of horses since childhood.  She started training horses at the age of twelve using techniques through the Professor Berry books, which is all she had at the time.  She trained her horses to do tricks, for every day acceptance and for riding.                                                                                     

Through the years she continued to train using various methods.  But it wasn’t until she had a very difficult horse that made her seek out some other method because all of the other ones just didn’t work with this difficult horse.  This horse, named High Anxiety (Great name for this horse), “JR” for short, was a Saddlebred-Arabian cross that was a bucking, high strung, nervous, extremely athletic, spooky run-off that tried every trick known to horses, to NOT do what you wanted.  Sheri even sent the horse to a trainer who couldn’t deal with him.                                              

In the spring of 1999, she attended a demonstration at an equine affair in Columbus, OH.  There she saw some very amazing things that a gentleman, by the name of Pat Parelli, and his students were demonstrating.  These horses were following their handlers around with no halters or leads and they were jumping things and crossing tarps and rolling balls and seemed very happy to be with their human partners.  She decided that day that she could do this with High Anxiety “JR” her Saddlebred cross.   When she got home she ordered the first program and began to play instead of  work with her horse JR.  She discovered that horses played 7 games with each other and were always trying each other to get to the Alfa position.  So in order for her to get the attention of JR she had to become Alfa.  It was history from that point on.  After about 6 months she was able to ride JR with no reins and only sticks.  The following winter, JR was sold to a man in Washington State that just loved him and got along great with him.  She couldn’t even think of selling him before.

Sheri has found that these techniques work on any type of horse, in any discipline, with any problem.                                                                                                 

Sheri is using these new techniques to help all kinds of horses and their owners.   She has rehabilitated and started around 100 horses in the program.  For more info about her or if you would like to hold a clinic in your area or have your horse trained with All Natural Horsemanship methods, contact Sheri at 740-525-2853