Not My Horse… He Never Acts This Way at Home!Īny horse may fall victim to emotionality, no matter the age, breed, temperament, or how well trained it is this is simply the nature of horses. Most importantly, I’ll discuss the technical skills you need to employ when your horse’s behavior tanks, you feel out of control, and need to get your horse back to a thinking state of mind. Here, I will share some tips for recognizing and analyzing changes in your horse’s emotionality as well as my philosophy for managing it. In a perfect world, a horse is always calm, focused, and steady in its behavior, but in the event your world is not perfect and your horse is not a robot, it is good to be prepared to handle emotional overload in horses. Whether the horse is panicked, throwing a tantrum over something he does not want to do, or simply overwhelmed and shutting down, this behavior is often dramatic and can be frightening at times. Although we cannot always know exactly what emotion the horse is feeling, it is easy to recognize a horse that’s having an emotional meltdown. Horses have the same basic emotions as humans-happy, sad, scared, angry, frustrated, lonely, jealous, disgusted. This tendency of horses to adopt the emotions of others applies to the humans around them as well, emphasizing the importance of controlling our own reactions when working with a horse that’s on emotional overload. When one horse in the herd becomes frightened, generally all the horses will respond in kind. ![]() It is a life and death matter to a prey animal. ![]() As prey and herd animals, horses are programmed to adopt the emotions of the animals around them (herd mentality) and react appropriately. No doubt about it-horses are emotional animals perhaps more emotional than humans.
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