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Science breaks behaviours down into tiny micro units that can be used to collect data - and often isn’t testing the whole thing or a...

a horse that you cannot even get close enough to the stable door to touch it. . One that bit the first bit of you it got hold of. (and...

Unfortunately it's not far fetched or a fantasy. I'm glad you live in a world where all horses behaviour perfectly and you can spend...

so how would you deal with this horse? You are saying a lot of what you don't want but not what to do. on the face of it this horse...

re your first para, not necessarily. It shows an almost feral horse that now has to become humanised. If we are going to keep horses are...

Ok so you haven't had a horse drag you across a yard. A well placed drop of weight and a hard pull on a rope generally helps solves...

this is partly aimed at your post and partly at others in the hope some will watch it and comment. It is about SY obviously. I cannot...

There isn't one right way to be around horses, handle horses, train horses & there never will be. Different animals/owners/situations...

In the herd, big loud corrections are for new herd members unsure of themselves, no? Or cheeky young ones trying it on at feed time. At...

Resource guarding IMHO develops for many reasons. In a domesticated horse it's usually man made. Wrong herd, wrong management and...

book learning, well google and theory nowadays is fine, but then with horses there is 600kg of real life where one end bites and the...

Yes we can use R+ to reinforce wanted behaviours. Learning theory shows that from woodlice upwards, a behaviour that gives a positive...

Of course it is! What do you see when you what a herd leader put the other herd members in place. It's dominance! Hence the term...

'Honestly, more decent trainers who will come out to an owner and have good answers for horses with issues would be fabulous. I often...

you are quite right it isn't training. It is dealing with and correcting a situation that the owner has created with their own training...