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I'm a long-time lurker -- interested but not as yet horse owner. (Toying with the idea of getting a miniature horse.) But I have just looked at this video...
Now my question is -- IS this horse showing signs of stress, or is lip licking in horses due to some other factor? Jenny I did not look again :0) I'd like to...
At least in this point in horse study, lip licking is considered a positive signal of releasing stress. Horses are prey animals, not predator as dogs are. Any...
... Hi, I know that with c/r it is possible to inadvertantly teach the horse to do some behaviours. The horse may think the trainer wants lip licking as this...
Julie wrote (and I paraphrase): ...Any pressure that is put on a horse creates a degree of stress, just as all stimuli place stress on us. Not all stress is...
I know that with c/r it is possible to inadvertantly teach the horse to do some behaviours. The horse may think the trainer wants lip licking as this generally...
... necessarily the product of coercion? I think Barbara Ray has something in the archives re: some forms of stress being a biological necessity? As in,...
Licking/Chewing=Learning? by: Sue McDonnell, PhD, Certified AAB December 01 2005, Article # 6346 www.thehorse.com I'm studying for an MSc in Equine Science and...
... One possibility is that this is simply a conditioned response. The far majority of reiners are schooled with pretty extreme pressures on the bits, and...
... I should note, that nearly all reiners I have seen ridden bridleless, tongue lick more frequently without the bits than when they are ridden normal with...
... the ... bit. ... Good to see you still with us Barbara! I feel a bit rusty on OC terms, but wouldn't this be classified as superstitious behavior then? If...
Many, many thanks to all who have answered this. To answer Tam's first question, In dogs, in any situation I would see this amount of 'tongue- flicking' as a...
The reason I asked Jenny such open ended questions is that I wanted to see if the majority of listers thought stress was a bad thing. Here is the first...
Hi Guys, Yes this licking and chewing sure gets us talking. In the natural horsemanship world licking and chewing is a good thing. They see it as a horse that...
... Yes, that is the idea, that with even very FEW repetitions, the way flight animals stay safe,is they 'memorise' very subtle visual and tactile "pictures"...
... Her horses have been trained pretty much traditional reining style, then the horses reach a level of 'obedience' where the bridle is used less and...
Stress comes from pressure, and the evolution and fitness of any living organism depends on it. I also do not know how one would exactly categorise stress as...
... Barbara Ray wrote: ....One possibility is that this is simply a conditioned response..... Barbara also wrote something about 'missing the bridle' and...
Hiya, ... I will see you ;-) and I raise you with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDDZwMr5h80 Now this (IMHO) is some riding! As for the whole stress...
Whoo Hoo Sharon! Loved watching that.......wonder how long it would take me to get my seriously large mare around that course........maybe if it was as big...
I encourage everyone to re-read Jord-Ann's posted reply to questions put in front of Sue McDonnell, PhD, Certified AAB. (Message #3214 ) I tried to cut and...
... Well, yes, we would need to know the context. We know that sometimes licking is just licking! The physical action of certain types of metals and bits in...
Without the expressed permission of the owner :0)........I want to welcome all the members of the BBECT to another fall/winter/spring edition of Beyond Basics/...
It has always been the policy of BBECT to keep on topic for a designated period of time and not deviate or get 'chit-chatty' about non-topic or non-training...
prev heading stress and training ... responses induced by the sympathetic systems then maybe stress is bad.... ... to.......husbandry? riding? what?<< ... ...
Oops! didn't reference message.... it is Message #3228 Sorry, I'll get better......learning curves are cool! Tam [Non-text portions of this message have been...
... responses induced by the sympathetic systems then maybe stress is bad.... ... sometimes licking is just licking! ... mouths cause the same thing, and it...
Jord-Ann asked: Shouldn't we slide this discussion to another position, and say that while activity of the mouth can be caused by stress, bits and "bad" ...
Hi Tam, ... I've got some experience with mares protecting themselves. I call it the 'cement suit'. :-( Anyway, this is the short answer version of what I ...
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