Horse Behavior

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How Smart Is Your Horse?

Research studies on equine intelligence and behavior are bringing new insights into how smart horses really are.
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Trivia Challenge: How Good an Equine Psychologist Are You?

Answer the questions, then check at bottom for the key. For more great information about horses, read H&R’s ‘The Ride’ newsletter. (Not getting it? Sign up below—it’s free!)
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Trivia Challenge: Are You a Safe, Savvy Trail Rider?

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Trivia Challenge: Do You Know When to Turn Back?

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Trivia Challenge: Can You ‘Read’ Your Horse?

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Catch Me If You Can!

Is your horse playing hard to get? Learn some of the causes of this wayward behavior, plus how to recondition a horse that’s persistently hard to catch.
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How to Safely Feed Horses in a Group

When you feed horses in a group, follow this advice to make sure everyone eats and stays safe.
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Under-Saddle Equine Aggression

Equine aggression in a ridden horse should never be ignored. Learn the causes plus some fixes you can apply from the saddle.
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The Facts of Headshaking

Learn what we really know about headshaking, a complex, confusing, and often frustrating condition.
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To Play or Not to Play?

Perhaps you play with your horse and no harm has come from it—yet. You should realize, however, that playing with horses can lead to trouble. Here’s why.
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Calm Your Horse

Wish your hot horse were more level-headed? Here are drug-free strategies to help him be as happy and mellow as possible.
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Ease Fireworks Anxiety

What to know and do to keep your horse from panicking and possibly hurting himself at the sound of Fourth of July celebrations.
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The Horse’s Advocate

If horses could choose someone to speak on their behalf, they’d pick Tom Dorrance, a gentle man whose philosophy is as much about living as it is about riding. (An H&R ‘Close Up’ profile first published in July 1997; Dorrance died in 2003.)
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When Your Horse Bullies You

If you don't address your horse's resistances when they first appear, you'll just enable his bullying tactics.
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Feeding Treats to Horses? Yea or Nay?

What do experts say about the advisability of feeding treats to your horse—*will* it result in nipping?
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