https://www.horseillustrated.com/horse-training-is-your-horse-nervous/ Tue, 02 Apr 2019 03:32:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.horseillustrated.com/horse-training-is-your-horse-nervous/#comment-392020 Wed, 03 Dec 2014 23:47:57 +0000 /horse-training/is-your-horse-nervous.aspx#comment-392020 Great advice. Both my horses know the word “calm” and they believe me!

]]> https://www.horseillustrated.com/horse-training-is-your-horse-nervous/#comment-391921 Tue, 02 Dec 2014 10:47:26 +0000 /horse-training/is-your-horse-nervous.aspx#comment-391921 I have a horse that gets very nervous, out of her pen/pasture, so I let her eat out on the lawn and take her for walks, and now she enjoys coming out of her comfort zone.

]]> https://www.horseillustrated.com/horse-training-is-your-horse-nervous/#comment-391912 Tue, 02 Dec 2014 08:21:01 +0000 /horse-training/is-your-horse-nervous.aspx#comment-391912 My gelding gets that way, but I calmly tell him “you’re okay” while looking him straight into the eye. When he looks back to me, I know he’s focused and he relaxes. Then we go to the scary thing to check it out.

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