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Spectacular Equine Behavior Achieved Through Copying
The story that I am going to share with you today is about a horse that you may have seen on some of my videos by the name of Panadero. He is an Andalusian Stallion and he is absolutely just the most expressive horse you could ever wish to meet.
Every day that I went out to see him he would run up to me and we would play this game where we used to run along the fence of his paddock. He would run along with me and then I’d ask him to leave and he would take off and run across the field before I’d call him back again. I would give him leaves off the tree and then I would go along the fence as if I was going to leave and he would run with me in the hope that I would continue to play with him. I’d stop again and pat him and let him give me a kiss and I gave him some more leaves off the tree.
We did this everyday whilst he was with me and when Panadero had finished his training he back went to live with his owner. We also had another horse at that time that was second in charge and he had never interacted with me along the fence or played the game. But after Panadero had been gone for a while, I could tell that this horse had made up his mind that he needed to move himself up in the ranks and he started playing the game with me.
It was absolutely spectacular because this was the kind of horse that didn’t want anything to do with people, but all of a sudden, for no reason at all, that horse would call for me when I came out of the house and his ears would perk up and he’d look just like Panadero. He’d run up to the fence, give me a kiss and then run off again with his tail up over his back and then he’d come back again and run along the fence with me.
It was just amazing that a horse I had hardly interacted with at all before then, suddenly started to behave like that. So I really wanted to share this story with you because it just teaches us how amazing horses are and how they understand their position within a community.
Carolyn Resnick
Horse Training from the Ground Up
Every day that I went out to see him he would run up to me and we would play this game where we used to run along the fence of his paddock. He would run along with me and then I’d ask him to leave and he would take off and run across the field before I’d call him back again. I would give him leaves off the tree and then I would go along the fence as if I was going to leave and he would run with me in the hope that I would continue to play with him. I’d stop again and pat him and let him give me a kiss and I gave him some more leaves off the tree.
We did this everyday whilst he was with me and when Panadero had finished his training he back went to live with his owner. We also had another horse at that time that was second in charge and he had never interacted with me along the fence or played the game. But after Panadero had been gone for a while, I could tell that this horse had made up his mind that he needed to move himself up in the ranks and he started playing the game with me.
It was absolutely spectacular because this was the kind of horse that didn’t want anything to do with people, but all of a sudden, for no reason at all, that horse would call for me when I came out of the house and his ears would perk up and he’d look just like Panadero. He’d run up to the fence, give me a kiss and then run off again with his tail up over his back and then he’d come back again and run along the fence with me.
It was just amazing that a horse I had hardly interacted with at all before then, suddenly started to behave like that. So I really wanted to share this story with you because it just teaches us how amazing horses are and how they understand their position within a community.
Carolyn Resnick
Horse Training from the Ground Up
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