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
