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Horse Help: Defensive Equine Behavior & Re-Education by Alternative Horsemanship
Fearful and Reactive Horse Behavior
Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series
Fearful and Reactive Horse Behavior
Alternative Horsemanship the Remote Horse Coach discusses breaking down and understanding unwanted horse behavior recognizing the equine's feedback and differences between symptoms and root cause(s).
New videos posted on the Alternative Horsemanship YouTube Channel every Friday.
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Are you teaching the horse Unwanted Behaviors?
Are you teaching the horse fearful, defensive, avoidant, or dangerous behaviors? Alternative Horsemanship the Remote Horse Coach shares insight into common human interactions causing unwanted equine responses.
Avoiding Triggering the Fearful Horse
Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series
Avoiding Triggering the Fearful Horse
Discussing Horse Help and Problems when trying to avoid triggering the Fearful and Distrustful Horse.
Weekly videos posted in the series on the Alternative Horsemanship YouTube Channel.
Horse Question Helping The Fixated Equine
Thoughts on using the Human's Body to "intervene" with a scary object.
Answer:Horse Trainer Help- Addressing the Horse that Spooks
Helping the Traumatized and Fearful Horse Part 3
Helping the Traumatized & Fearful Horse
Part 3
Horse trainer Thoughts & Perspective on the contributing Horse Training practices that create Traumatized and Fearful Horse leading to increasingly dangerous and unwanted equine behaviors.
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Unwanted Horse Behavior Help
The Human Agenda & Horse Problems
The Human Agenda can often create blinders towards the Horse's Communication for so many who interact with equines.
Prioritizing Addressing the "Scary" Horse
Dear Sam: Horse Help -Spooky Horses
Horse Problems- Tacking up Assessment
Most people never consider how the horse responds to just the sight of tack or notice if there are Quality Conversations while doing so.
Each part of the interaction influences the mental reasonableness and physical softness that follows.
While the norm (often out of convenience) is to tie the horse while tacking, the degree of bother or concern a horse may have while doing so frequently is suppressed.
I suggest practicing tacking the horse without tying him. The goal is not about getting tacked up.
It is an Opportunity to notice how your horse feels about standing while you are moving around him.
Unwanted Horse Behavior- Helping the Head Shy Horse - Dear Sam: Horse Help
Deconstructing The Horse's Spook * Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series
Things Horses Spook At... and why the dramatic response
Helping the Highly Reactive Horse with the Remote Horse Coach
Mid-week thoughts... Someone was asking about a highly reactive Thoroughbred and how to fix his spooking issues, even after he had been at a trainer for two months.
Dangerous, Dramatic, Reactive, Anticipative, Fearful Horses
It isn't Convenient
When the horse is...Resistant to being caught
Constantly pulling when led
Pulls back or gets stressed when tied
Always moving away when trying to tack up
Steps away when trying to mount
Walks off as soon as the rider is in the saddle
Is drifting, bracing, or anticipative when ridden
Takes "awhile" to load into the trailer
Might explode out during the trailer unloading
Is "buddy" or barn "sour"
Has the same "issue" with the same scary spot repeatedly
Offers dramatic behaviors when something unexpected arises
Paws, paces, cribs, weaves, wall kicks, bites while in his enclosure
Is aggressive towards other horses or at feed time
Etc., etc., etc.
Every single unwanted unfortunately common horse behavior above, is a symptom.
Most people try to band-aid the symptom by adding more pressure to the already fearful and defensive equine.
Then one unwanted behavior morphs into another because the root cause was never addressed.
The horse that is left living in a state of constant fear and anticipation because they are defensive toward human interaction leads to mental and physical trauma.
It isn't a matter of "if" they explode, get hurt, or injure the human, but when.
Please stop ignoring the subtle, reasonable behaviors the horse conveys reflecting his fear and defensiveness.
Please start prioritizing slowing down, breaking down the communication to offer short, specific, clear, supportive, and non-critical information that has meaning to the horse.
The horse is not trying to wreck your day, annoy you, psych you out, etc.
The only thing he is trying to do is find a safe space. If every time you show up you bring chaos, distraction, hurried behaviors, anticipation, and unclear communication, what are you teaching him?
To get the Change in the horse, first we must start with the Human.
Dear Sam: Horse Help *Changing Human Intention Improving Equine Partnership
Surprising, Overhwelming, or "all of a sudden" moments with the Horse
The equine's body is a reflection of his brain and emotions.
Is the horse's movement a problem? No.
It is the result of his asking for support that was "answered" with the use of more pressure "driving" him into complying. Which "worked," until it didn't.