Horse Behavior

Anyone who has been around horses for any length of time has experienced one of the elevator, shy, spin, or freeze stances when a horse is suddenly frightened by something.  In fact, I often see people on trail rides, where their horse spots a scary object on the trail and won’t go past it.  How we help a horse through these fears is rooted in how they process new objects.We know they process new objects, as a prey animal, in …

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Yesterday I went to pick up a horse that had been on the same property all his life until six months ago when his owner moved him to a boarding facility.  Trying to hang on to him was impossible financially and physically so she called us to help.  This horse was bottle fed when his mom died of west nile virus by the woman that had owned him all 17 years until now.  We moved him out of the city …

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