When horses expertise stress they usually behave in methods simply recognized: they grow to be troublesome to deal with or journey, and attempt to flee or ‘combat’ to flee what they understand to be a aggravating state of affairs.

These ‘massive’ behaviours are apparent to most horse individuals, however much less well-known are different methods horses reply to stress, resembling by fidgeting or as might be seen within the above video by turning into nonetheless, or ‘freezing’.

Nevertheless, stillness doesn’t equal calmness. Whereas nonetheless horses experiencing concern, anxiousness or stress could present fewer apparent behaviours, delicate indicators of those states can nonetheless be seen by skilled observers.

Horses who grow to be nonetheless when harassed are sometimes labelled loopy or described as ‘exploding out of nowhere’. As this video touches upon, by coaching the attention to raised acknowledge delicate indicators of stress, horse trainers and handlers can reply sooner to the horse’s stress and de-escalate the state of affairs, avoiding greater stress responses.

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