Horse Health, Behaviors & Sleep
Alternative Horsemanship™ with Samantha Harvey the Remote Horse Coach shares horse training and horseback rider coaching, philosophies, and approaches she has developed over three decades. Offering horsemanship clinics worldwide, distance horse coaching instruction, equine consultations, equine re-education and rehabilitation, colt starting, and lessons. Follow her #alternativehorsemanship on all social media platforms.
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Unwanted Horse Behavior Problems Symptom vs Issue- Unasked for Backing
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Helping the Highly Reactive Horse
Behaviors Sabotaging the Human and Horse Partnership
What is the most common issue I see sabotaging the human & horse partnership?
Containment
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.
Unwanted Horse Behavior- Pain the Equine an Unaddressed Contributor
Pain - the Unacknowledged Frequent Contributor to Unwanted Equine Behaviors
Horse Help Concepts- The Box an Alternative Horsemanship tool
The "Box"
Unwanted Horse Behavior, Resistance & Responses
Weekly videos on the Alternative Horsemanship YouTube Channel.
Are you creating unwanted horse behavior?
Alternative Horsemanship the Remote Horse Coach shares insight into human interactions that can lead to unwanted equine behaviors.
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Need Horse Help? Experiencing Unwanted, Resistant, or Dangerous Horse Behaviors
Need help with your horse? Not understanding the horse's behavior?
Defensive & Fearful Horse Behavior
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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Bad Horse Behaviors or Vision Issues
Bad Horse Behaviors or Vision Issues?
Discussing some equine behaviors that may be indicators of potential vision issues. Many unwanted, dramatic, fearful, and dangerous horse behaviors stem from a combination of factors, often including an equine that is experiencing physical issues or pain.
Watch the latest episode in the Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series on the Alternative Horsemanship YouTube Channel.
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Unwanted Horse Behavior Help
Understanding Unwanted Horse Behavior
Horses don't just "do" that...
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
Eliminating the Hurry to Improve your Horsemanship
Their self-imposed urgencies of task accomplishment often become the focal point, rather than prioritizing the Quality of Communication with the horse. The general unspoken standard of "if the horse's behavior doesn't scare me, we're still okay," leaves many horses in the gray area during a majority of human interaction. If the horse "mostly" complies, the tendency is to add more to what is being asked of him.
Horseback Riders and Equine Enthusiast Tips- Stop overwhelming Yourself
It is very easy to become overwhelmed by everything that "isn't" or is challenging, frustrating, and exhausting with the horse.
Unrealistic expectations, hopefulness and continuously comparing ourselves or our horses to what "everyone else" is/can do, is detrimental to the Quality of our interactions and leads to less-than-ideal scenarios.
I wish more folks gave themselves permission to literally and figuratively focus on being present and addressing themselves and their horse in small segments. Each segment of Clarity in Communication can connect to the next, which influences how the "final" piece of accomplishment is experienced by the horse.
The Resistant Horse
When the horse is...
Resistant to being caught
Constantly pulling when led
Pulls back or gets stressed when tied
Swishes his tail every time you walk behind him
Always is moving away when trying to tack him 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 "a while" to load into the trailer
Might explode backward 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.