--- In [email protected], "Janice McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > they will go behind the vertical themselves, without being put there by the rider, for instance, now why on earth would they do this? rote obedience for one, but in many/most cases, they learn if they just give in and do the painful thing and not fight it, it makes things easier for them but ALSO, and most importantly, the pain causes a RELEASE OF ENDORPHINS, the same endorphins that will make a horse crib until it starves to death or colics. they actually get hooked on it. Janice--
-----------------Wow, I had never heard of this before. I wonder how common it is, and if my sister's horse fit into this category. Dawn Bruin-Slot, northern Michigan Fuzzy Logic Equine
