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http://www.barnmice.com/xn/detail/1773158:Comment:275440

I am posting it as a separate topic because I got into a new subject (again!) and since that topic got a lot of comments I thought I would start it up separately here.

I agree that the word respect is over used and misplaced, and that we should look at it more like a training issue. But... it's important to remember that it's also about the horses emotions. We can train a horse to respond in a certain way, we can teach new habits, but I think that in many cases the key is to change how the horse feels about something. Change it's emotions about a situation and the behaviour changes too.

I am sure that we are on similar ideas on what to do (positive training) but I just wanted to point out that the same behaviour can come from different reasons. For instance a horse that doesn't stand for mounting; it can be in pain, it can be afraid, it can be trained not to stand (accidentally), or it can be a lack of training. The different reasons demands different approaches. In other words, figure out the why before trying to train the behaviour, it's not always a matter of something the horse has been rewarded for.