Pain in Horses- Unwanted Equine Behaviors

 

Pain - the Unacknowledged Frequent Contributor to Unwanted Equine Behaviors

 

 

Many horses and humans live with pain to varying degrees on a daily basis. If you've ever been injured or have ongoing pain, think about the all-consuming feeling and emotional state the pain triggered in you.

Horses don't "just" pin their ears when you saddle, get tight or twitch their skin when you touch them, and move away every time you go to mount. If the horse is showing concern, tension, or defensive, please, BEFORE you focus on the "training" first start with your horse's behavior, and assess it for potential pain or discomfort.

Learning Horse Skills or Tasks Dear Sam: Horse Help

 Are you having problems with your horse's behavior? Trying to learn horse skills but getting unwanted equine responses?

Watch this horse learning video in the Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series by Alternative Horsemanship™ The Remote Horse Coach that addresses commonly misunderstood and overlooked aspects of learning the horse skills needed to help create long-term changes in the horse's behavior leading to reasonable and safe interactions.

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4 Tips to Improve your Horse Skills

 

Are you breathing?

When people focus, they tend to hold their breath. Talk. Tell your horse what you are doing (literally, it also helps you keep track.) Sing to him or whistle. Anything!

Horse Skills, Equine Behavior, and the Problems with Patterns

 

Patterns

What's your pattern? 

 As folks beginning the new year, it is a great time to revisit assessing one's self-awareness to recognize where perhaps unintentional interactions negatively contribute to the horse's behavior and responses. 

January 11 Alternative Horsemanship™ Horse Learning Livestream

 

Reminder to join me in this horse learning livestream that will include a 12-minute video of examples of imposing human behaviors and learning to recognize defensive horse responses.

January 11, 2025 9am pdt Livestream REGISTER HERE

If you are unable to attend the live version, or missed last week's Horse Facial Feedback, you can replay all livestreams HERE

Reminder: after the live version has ended, it may take up to 12 hours before it appears in the Livestream Replays category.

Horse Training: Are you teaching fear?

Horse Training Problems and Unwanted Equine Behavior. Are you teaching the horse to be fearful?

In this horse learning video Alternative Horsemanship the Remote Horse Coach discusses how often in the horse training process people weaponize their groundwork creating unwanted responses in the horse.

Subscribe on Alternative Horsemanship YT to watch new Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship coaching videos.

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Horse Owners - Are you preparing your horse?

 Horses & Emergencies

Horse Tips to Interrupt the Hurry in Your Equine Time

The simplest synopsis I offer students regarding time with their horse is that five minutes of quality communication has far more short and long-term value to the equine, than chaotic longer, "dutiful" by-the-clock sessions.