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What Your Horse Wants You to Know What Horses' Bad Behavior Means, and How to Correct It

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ISBN-10: 0764540858

ISBN-13: 9780764540851

Edition: 2003

Authors: Gincy Self Bucklin

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How to successfully listen to and communicate with a horse Working with horses presents novice and even expert handlers with some problems unlike those found with other animals. Most "misbehavior" of horses is the result of lack of comprehension on the part of the horse-and this is the result of a lack of communication skills on the part of the handler. What Your Horse Wants You to Know provides highly accessible advice by a renowned expert that helps handlers get out of trouble before it escalates. Organized by behaviors, it enables readers to find out immediately what a horse is trying to say and offers clear, concise, concrete directions for dealing with each particular problem. The…    
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Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.18" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: What You Need to Know to Help Your Horse
Bathing: Afraid of the Hose
Biting People
Blankets: Fear of Blanketing
Bridling: Fusses About His Ears
Bridling: Raises or Throws Head When Removing
Bridling: Won't Open His Mouth
Clipping, Resistance To
Cold Weather Behavior
Doctoring: Applying Eye Ointments
Doctoring: Drenching
Doctoring: Fear of Shots
Doctoring: Soaking a Leg or a Foot
Doctoring: Treating Wounds
Ear-Shyness, Overcoming
Feeding Problems: Bolting His Grain
Feeding Problems: Making Noise While Waiting
Feeding Problems: Picky Eater
Feeding Problems: Throwing Grain Out of the Manager
Feet, Refusing to Hold Up
Feet, Refusing to Pick Up
Feet: Refusing to Stand for the Farrier
Gates, Problems With Arena
Grazing in Hand Problems
Grooming, Fussing or Fidgeting During
Haltering, Resistance To
Head-Shyness, Overcoming
Kicking at Other Horses
Kicking at People
Leading, Breaking Away While
Leading, Running Over Handler While
Leading, Rushing Ahead While
Leading, Spooking While
Leading: Won't Go When Asked
Leg Wraps, Fussing About
Longeing: Horse Won't Start
Longeing, Pulling Away While
Longeing: Turning to Face You
Mane Pulling, Resistance To
Mounting, Moving During
Nipping
Panicking Against Crossties
Panicking: Stepping on the Lead Rope or Reins
Panicking When Caught in Something
Panicking When Left Alone
Pawing: Dangerous Striking
Pawing for Treats
Pawing From Nervousness
Pawing: Mild Striking
Personal Space: Bumping, Stepping on or Walking Into You
Personal Space: Head Swinging
Personal Space: Mugging for Treats
Rearing as a Game
Rearing When Being Led
Saddling, Moving During
Saddling: Problems While Being Cinched or Girthed Up
Spooking at Familiar Objects
Stall Problems: Breaking Out
Stall Problems: Crowding
Stall Problems: Fear of Doorways
Stall Problems: Getting Cast
Stall Problems: Kicking the Stall
Stall Problems: Manure on the Wall, in the Manger or in the Water Bucket
Stall Problems: Playing With the Water
Stall Problems: Souring Ears or Charging the Bars
Stall Problems: Turning the Tail to the Door
Stall Problems: Walking and Weaving
Stall Problems: Windsucking or Cribbing
Trailering: Loading
Trailering: Loading When You Can't Do It Right
Trailering: Pawing or Kicking While Underway
Trailering: Scrambling
Turnout, Breaking Away During
Turnout: Bullying Other Horses
Turnout: Charging
Turnout: Chewing Wood
Turnout: Refusing to Be Caught
Tying: Chewing on the Rope
Tying: Won't Tie
Afterword
Resources
Illustrated Glossary
Index