Hi >I think it can be like this with horses, but I don't >think it's really abnormal for them. Some are just >very sensitive, I would guess that it would work for >them as prey animals.
I have not really had the experience that it makes any different whether an animal is a 'predator' or a 'prey' they can be tactile defensive. It think there is a difference between being tactile defensive and unused to being touches. Personally I find the prey / predator model not very useful since most species can be either depending on the context. I like to approach animals by wanting to be non-threatening rather than threatening - using that attitude it doesn't matter what kind of an animal you are approaching - it is about your body language, of course, attitude and intention. I have learned to look outside the box of general beliefs in looking at behaviour from working with so many different species of animals and finding that I can use the same principles with any of them -whether they are considered prey or predatory animals in the food chain - and get the same result in terms of being able to handle them in a non-stressful way. Working outside of species that I know a lot about has really given me new ways of looking at species that I have more experience with. Robyn Icelandic Horse Farm Robyn Hood & Phil Pretty Vernon BC Canada www.icefarm.com -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.10/625 - Release Date: 1/13/2007 5:40 PM "The greatest enemy of the truth very often is not the lie- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic." "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer [] The video every Icelandic Horse owner should have: http://IceHorses.net/video.html [] Lee Ziegler http://leeziegler.com [] Liz Graves http://lizgraves.com [] Lee's Book Easy Gaited Horses http://tinyurl.com/7vyjo [] IceHorses Map http://www.frappr.com/IceHorses [] IceHorses ToolBar http://iceryder.ourtoolbar.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IceHorses/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IceHorses/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
