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I am wondering how you are asking her to do these things like step back when you enter her stable.
I am also well aware that if I am anxious or scared at an impending situation that my reaction is to get bolshier/stroppier with the horse. I have to work very hard not to do that and temper my reactions to the horse I am handling.
Think of it this way, to her a headcollar may well be the prior warning that you are going to do something with her, without it life might seem like one big stressful surprise. There is certainly no way I would be changing rugs in the field of a horse that I had only had a month.
I am also well aware that if I am anxious or scared at an impending situation that my reaction is to get bolshier/stroppier with the horse. I have to work very hard not to do that and temper my reactions to the horse I am handling.
Think of it this way, to her a headcollar may well be the prior warning that you are going to do something with her, without it life might seem like one big stressful surprise. There is certainly no way I would be changing rugs in the field of a horse that I had only had a month.