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Unwanted Horse Behavior Problems Symptom vs Issue- Unasked for Backing
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Can you recognize defensiveness, anticipation, and pain in the horse?
Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship
This episode offers the opportunity to assess a horse's behavior for defensiveness, anticipation, and pain indicators. The Remote Horse Coach then shares an in-depth assessment to help equine enthusiasts learn how to read and recognize the horse's behavior. This gives insight into where to start with the horse, as well as seeing the horse's coping patterns. The video sheds light on various health issues that may affect the horse's willingness to participate. Join us in this educational horse video to enhance your horsemanship skills and deepen your understand.
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Improving Horse Skills & Time Limitations
The “task” often becomes the focal point, rather than the quality of communication. If the horse mostly “goes along” with what is asked, people tend to accept the behavior.
But without effective “tools” (I don’t mean gadgets, rather how a person uses pressure to communicate) they often wind up at the “mercy” of the horse or “surviving” the ride.
Pushy, Anticipative, Fearful, Fleeing, Reactive Horse Behavior
Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series
Tips for how to translate pushy, anticipative, fearful, and reactive horse behavior to search for the root causes behind these dangerous equine.
Are you blaming your horse for unwanted behaviors? Most equine enthusiasts try to control, block, or stop the animal's movement which creates one unwanted response evolving into another resistant behavior.
Click the linklink to watch on the Alternative Horsemanship YouTube Channel.
New videos posted every Friday.
Improving Horse Skills & Changing Sabotaging Interaction Patterns
Proactive Horse Skills & Communication
Do you work with your horse at the same time of day?
Catch him in the same manner?
Enter/exit the gate the same way?
Is your groundwork a routine or a pattern?
Tie/groom/tack up in the same place?
Mount from the same side, in the same location?
Begin always tracking in one direction?
Horse Skill Tips: Physical Assessment Opportunities
Without meaning to, as a person is trying to mentally assess, process, and physically coordinate their communication with the horse, they may also be conveying unintentional signals to their horse.
This adds unnecessary confusion when attempting to change old patterns in the interaction.
Alternative Horsemanship Horse Humor Journal
Tips for Improving Horse Skills, Time Perceptions & Decreasing Unwanted Behaviors
Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series
Horse Tips: Problem Behaviors and Learning Opportunities
Fixing Dangerous and Unwanted Horse Behavior by Alternative Horsemanship
What if we recognized and addressed the initial signs of concerned, fearful, or defensive equine behaviors before they erupted into things like:
Bucking
Bolting
Kicking
Spooking
"Over-reaction"
Biting
Fixating
Fleeing movement
Biting at the Air
Pawing
Jigging
Stomping
Weaving
and so many other moments that far too many riders respond to with, "Oh, he just does that, he's being a ____."