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Understanding your Horse’s Association, Habits, and Responses

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Your Horse is a Herd Animal Your horse must learn to perform away from a group. Your horse will not do this on his own, he must be taught. Your horse’s instincts will tell him that safety is in numbers. This is one good reason that you should not ride alone, or get separated from [...]

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How to Be Safe around Your Horse

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Be Safe Moving around Your Horse As you move around your horse, continue talking, and keep a hand on him. When you walk behind your horse, your hand and arm go around his hindquarters, touching him before you step from one side to the other. If your horse is going to kick, let him kick [...]

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Overcoming Your Horse’s Fight or Flee Instinct

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Fight or Flee Instinct, What will Your Horse Do? We know how our horses perceive the world. We know what we need to do to make our horses feel safe. We must not appear to possess predator habits so that we may teach our horses to override their equine survival instincts. Your horse must know [...]

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What Makes Your Horse Fight or Flee

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Learn about Your Horse's Fight or Flee Instincts The approach of a predator or even the suspicion of a predator is your horse’s main cause of flight. Your horse is a prey animal. You must assume anything sudden or strange is a predator to your horse. Unknown or sudden noises or movements may signal the [...]

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Your Horse’s Greatest Fear

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Horses Predators or Prey? Your horse is a prey animal. Your horse belongs to the group that is eaten by the other group, the predators. The greatest threat to a horse in the wild was that a predator would eat him, and those fears are still active today. Only horses that physically and mentally adapted [...]