text: Show Your Horse How to Say Yes...So He Can Say No - Soft and Sound
  Show Your Horse How to Say Yes…So He Can Say No
  They have been inadvertently trained to say 'No' to everything, either with defensive or aggressive behaviour, or anxiety, or generalised mental and physical bracing. The response they have developed can be influenced by their breeding and natural disposition, but the issues have been created by humans – usually by mistakenly reinforcing the behaviour. This could be as simple as at one stage in his early career around humans a horse tried to shove a human out of the way, and the human allowed themselves to be shoved. Now, the humans behaviour may have been so crappy that the horse was well within his rights to shove him, but whatever, the horse learned humans are to be shoved.