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Why am I struggling to train my horse?

September 17, 2021September 18, 2021 communication, horse emotion, horse psychology, training

Do you think you are using an effective training method? Why what YOU think doesn’t matter!

grey horse and girl looking at each other

Does this study really claim your horse doesn’t love you?

November 6, 2020November 8, 2020 horse emotion, horse personality, horse psychology

Journalists love provocative headlines! Here’s what this recent study actually says about horse-human relationships.

horse and human walking through the woods in autumn

Opportunity for you/your horse to appear in Good Horse educational videos

February 7, 2019February 27, 2019 fear, horse emotion, horse psychology, human emotion

Would you be interested in taking part in the creation of Good Horse videos? Get in touch to see how you could get involved!

Why do horses yawn?

May 17, 2018May 17, 2018 communication, horse emotion, horse psychology, licking and chewing

The answer to this question may seem straight-forward enough but yawning can mean more than simply that your horse is tired! Understanding this and related behaviours can help us make better decisions about how to train and handle horses.

black tobiano Baroque Pinto or Barock Pinto stallion Dream Gait's Bizkit trotting. Photo from USEF archive.

Bad manners or lovable spirit?

February 5, 2017February 19, 2021 horse emotion, horse personality, horse psychology, training

Does this video show a horse with bad manners? Sometimes we get so caught up in controlling everything our horses do that maybe we forget some of what we love so much about horses in the first place.

Gril trying to load a horse. She has bad timing and is using excessive force. Horse is rearing. Still taken from a video.

Empathy failure: Bad timing and excessive force

January 21, 2017October 20, 2017 fear, horse emotion, horse psychology, training

This video has been circulating on Facebook recently and is a graphic example of someone failing to empathise with the

Why excitement is probably not why your horse is strong under saddle

December 21, 2016February 19, 2017 fear, horse emotion, horse psychology, training

Like most animals, horses prefer to conserve their energy for those moments when their survival really depends on it. So why do some horses get “strong”?