Mounted search and rescue

[Ms Teri Oliver <terilynne3@yahoo.com>]

I believe that most of it has to do with your relationship towards your horse. I can sleep in the stall with my horse and know she won't step on me.  However, she liked to ran over someone else (avoided him but the way he told it...well, you get the drift) to get out the barn first. She didn't see him and when she did, she avoided him.

 

I also believe that how the horse perceives humans in their herd will also have a big part of the kicking/charging issue. I horse with no respect will kick at a human. Sometimes a human can also get caught up in the pasture between the horse on horse relationship and get hurt.

 

Yes, some horses have a mean streak and will try and hurt people. I firmly believe that is because of abuse and sometimes they just have a mean streak in them. Most horses however, can love you, like they would their best friend.
 

Sincerely

Teri Oliver

----- Original Message ----
From: Una Smith <una.smith@att.net>
To: Mounted search and rescue <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 8, 2007 1:27:24 PM
Subject: Re: [MSAR] Horse instinct

Is the question "do horses normally avoid charging/harming people"?
Or is the question "is this behavior instinctive or learned", and
"is it natural or artificial"?

Instinct versus learned is another way of stating the philosophical
question of nature (meaning innate, genetically determined trait) vs
nurture (meaning learned behaviors, regardless of how learned).

To bring this back to MSAR, consider how to apply these questions
to use of the horse as a search animal.

    Una Smith
    New Mexico
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