The video tells you how you meet people if you have a dog with you. The trainer forbids anybody to touch their dog unless that person has permission to do so. It is disrespectful of the dog and the owner/human companion, to touch a dog …
Donkeys are sentient beings. They have feelings and if you don’t believe that I would respectfully suggest that you are badly mistaken. As they have feelings they have the potential to love although the word “love” is a very elastic word. It means to have …
Like humans, horses can have facial expressions but they are not as elaborate as those of humans. Nonetheless, the expressions provide us with information about how a horse is feeling. Snapping Young foals can perform a snapping action with their mouths. They open their mouth …
A horse’s leg movements carry messages to the recipients be they another horse or a person. Pawing on the ground This action originates in a horse scratching the surface of the ground to test its resistance or to understand what is beneath their feet. But …
I’ll describe 4 horse body signals and what they mean. General demeanour When a horse takes up a more elevated posture, standing tall and proudly with the head held high and the tail standing up it reflects an elevated and more excited mood. The opposite …
We know that the horse has a very strong and long neck. This allows the animal to signal its emotions via its neck and head. Head shake The head shake has its origins in the irritation caused by flies which buzz around a horse’s eyes, …
Do horses understand that they are running in a race and that there is a winner or loser? Dr Desmond Morris in his book Horsewatching is very firm and clear with his advice, which is that horse racing is an entirely human construct and horses …
The position of a horse’s tail communicates what a horse is thinking and feeling. Some positions are symbolic of the original cause. The original cause of a high tail position is because a horse is accelerating. This results in the muscles of the tail lifting …
I can list eight main sounds that a horse makes thanks to Dr Desmond Morris’s book Horsewatching. I would have thought that like cats and dogs, horses have a wide spectrum of individualised versions of these main vocalisations. One can categorise the sounds but we …
