Recently a couple of situations have come up that have caused me to reflect on how a horse feels about what we are asking him to do. Some horses we encounter make us look good by taking everything new in stride and never letting on that maybe they aren’t entirely OK with the process. Or maybe they do let on but they never do anything so dangerous that we can’t get away with letting those things slide. We can all attest to that sort of thing looking back, no?
Isn’t training hard enough as it is without having [more...]