Many people use ear bonnets or ear plugs to muffle noise while improving focus and reducing stress in horses that are sensitive to noise. They are very common at horse competitions and a lot of people swear they help the performance of their horses.
It seems to me that, like a horse, a rider is always a work in progress. Neither a horse nor a rider is ever finished learning. If this is true, then maybe there is no such thing as a rider that is not green.
I care about all our animals, including our horses. Their emotional and physical well-being is top of the list of things that are important to me in our relationship. That’s easy. I care about them and that’s not hard to do.
They asked if a horse must always experience emotional stress when learning a new task. They said that one of the first things that attracted them to clicker training was the idea of low or no-stress training. At first, this seemed to be the case.
Shut down horses appear quiet and safe. They are not. Shut-down horses appear calm and relaxed. They are not. Shut down horses appear happy. They are not. And we do that to them
