https://www.horseillustrated.com/horse-training-5-tips-to-stop-the-spooking-horse/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:34:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.horseillustrated.com/horse-training-5-tips-to-stop-the-spooking-horse/#comment-423344 Sat, 25 Jul 2020 23:59:20 +0000 /horse-training/5-tips-to-stop-the-spooking-horse.aspx#comment-423344 will give this a shot. have a trail horse that has always great, usually leads and lots of people whose horse gets spooked will wait for us to ride and then follow us thru the scary item, when they are ready. now she won’t go anywhere, she has lost her sight in her left eye and is jumping at everything. perhaps she has lost faith in my leading skills thou i haven’t guided her anywhere new.

]]> https://www.horseillustrated.com/horse-training-5-tips-to-stop-the-spooking-horse/#comment-410615 Tue, 20 Oct 2015 16:23:33 +0000 /horse-training/5-tips-to-stop-the-spooking-horse.aspx#comment-410615 I have been reverting to treating my aqha 11 year old mare back to basics. I can now pick up her feet she is getting better about being tied up and I can now shake a tarp or plastic bag and she doesn’t have a full blown panic attack. She stands there now and it takes her about 1 minute to realize she is okay and scary object didn’t consume her. Before I did this she would stand and shake with her head in outer space. Like the further her brain was from the scary object she could pretend it went away.

]]> https://www.horseillustrated.com/horse-training-5-tips-to-stop-the-spooking-horse/#comment-398690 Tue, 10 Mar 2015 23:31:25 +0000 /horse-training/5-tips-to-stop-the-spooking-horse.aspx#comment-398690 Great advice.
Regarding #2, comforting a horse in this situation just reinforces him that he was right to be scared in the first place. One should act calm and nonchalant as stated. Not really any irony.

]]> https://www.horseillustrated.com/horse-training-5-tips-to-stop-the-spooking-horse/#comment-398050 Tue, 03 Mar 2015 06:14:02 +0000 /horse-training/5-tips-to-stop-the-spooking-horse.aspx#comment-398050 I believe if colts/babies are started out with being use to “scary” object, they are much calmer when riding. Doing things like, tyeing plastic bags to their halter, letting them eat their grain in the middle of a plastic tarp, using umbrellas to pop out at them, anything spooky, let them get use to dogs, cats, chickens, infact I feed my chickens under the horses feet.

]]> https://www.horseillustrated.com/horse-training-5-tips-to-stop-the-spooking-horse/#comment-398035 Mon, 02 Mar 2015 23:59:59 +0000 /horse-training/5-tips-to-stop-the-spooking-horse.aspx#comment-398035 Great advice.

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