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Domestic horses are 20 times more aggressive than horses in feral groups. This skews our understanding of natural equine behaviour
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A certain lack of feeling
By Julie Taylor on 16.06.2017
There are many opinions about the practice of bringing chronically lame horses back to competition by cutting the sensory nerves to their feet so...
Veterinary
De-nerving: Is it doping?
By Julie Taylor on 27.05.2017
“Doping is treatment with a substance or a technique which improves or detracts from a horse's natural performance ability. It can also be...
Veterinary
Vetting the vets
By Julie Taylor and Luise Thomsen on 25.05.2017
In other sports, anti-doping is a matter of fairness to one's competitors. You dope, you cheat. In equestrian sport, there is a darker side to the...
Veterinary
No pain, lots of gain
By Julie Taylor and Luise Thomsen on 22.05.2017
Yesterday, the 16-year-old KWPN gelding, Never Say Never jumped in the finals of the Danish Showjumping Championships. He even placed and won a...
Welfare
Unnerving facts
By Julie Taylor on 19.05.2017
Imagine a doping test where – instead of sending the sample to an independent laboratory – the rider's own vet as well as the team vet of...
Welfare
Holding one's tongue
By Julie Taylor on 30.03.2017
“If you want things to change, you have to stop being so aggressive.” “Be more polite if you want people to listen to you.”...
The ugliness of motivation
By Julie Taylor on 27.03.2017
For a few days I have been pondering the meaning of the word “motivation” and the way it is used by horse people. In our latest video...
Training
House of cards
By Julie Taylor on 02.07.2016
If you're anything like me, you will have asked yourself at some time in the past: "What does it take to get a yellow card for abuse of the...
Billy, go home
By Julie Taylor on 23.05.2016
Dear Billy. I know you're not real. I know you're just a mascot invented to promote the 2016 Rio Olympics. If you were a real horse, you'd be less of...
Behaviour
Flights of fancy
By Julie Taylor on 10.05.2016
Why do we call horses flight animals? Even I say it and I have witnessed how decidedly unflighty free living horses are and how little they concern...
