FanyDuChamp
Well-Known Member
I was reading the "what do you sing when hacking" thread and it made me think about how we calm down our stressy WB. We sing to him, he has his own song "I feel pretty, oh so pretty I feel pretty and witty and gay etc" When Elizabeth and I first got him he was extremely stressed, bolshy, opinionated and had an appalling reputation for being a "difficult" horse. We started singing to him, his own song and he began to calm down and de-stress (obviously it took more than that. Or maybe he just stopped stressing to stop the singing! ) Any how he started to associate the song/singing with happy/safe times, now all we have to do is start the song and he will stop his stressing behaviour and listen.
So what do you use? Or do to help your horse over stressful periods? What have you found that works?
FDC
So what do you use? Or do to help your horse over stressful periods? What have you found that works?
FDC