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Several years ago I had a mare who was recovering from an injury. As part of the therapy the Vet instructed me to take her for 2 to  3 20 to 30 minute walks, not rides, a day. For my own sake I would just take her for walks on the trail rather than walk her in patterns around the barn area. That way the walks didn't become boring to me. When we'd get back to the barn I'd do some gentle ground work so she didn't get relief as soon as we got home. I was happily surprised at how well she adjusted to not being bothered about being on the trail alone after a couple of weeks of this. She is still the easiest horse I have to ride away from home that I have.

This is one of the best horse trainers. I'm 83 and needed to know all this knowledge  long ago in my horsin years. Now 83 and just memories. Job well done with this horse problem Ryan.

It is basically a re-hash of weaning a mare and foal. The reaction is pretty much the same with the panic, fussing and calling. One problem is I've found a horse that behaves like this with one horse will just find another buddy if kept with other horses. So it can end up a never-ending problem in a few cases.

Do what I did, get a third horse.
Then another horse, then another and another,
eventually, the horses don't care if one is gone. ha ha

That's one of the prettiest  horses I've ever. They're all beautiful though. ❤

If only the breeders who weaned their foals with poor methods (weaning too early, isolating a foal in a stall etc), could understand how badly they screw up the horse's mind, sometimes for the rest of its life. Horses with extreme separation anxiety can cause a lot of damage to themselves, to people, to fences, pastures, stalls, equipment. If you breed horses, please wean at an appropriate age (closer to 8 months, not 4), please give the foal known companions, in fact never keep young horses under 2 years old alone. It is very detrimental to them. They need a herd.

Two beautiful horses. They need to trust their leader more.

More comfortable in the parasympathetic NS.  Sympathetic is fight or flight.😊

I "think" this (or something like it) is what was done to my one gelding before I owned him but it was done to such an extent that he hates being around other horses. He will do it if you ask him to and won't be a jerk about it but first chance he gets he will go somewhere where he doesn't have to see or be near the other horses. He also won't whinny back if another horse whinnys at him but he will whinny at me when he sees me and he is out in the pasture. It's actually super nice because I mostly ride alone and he really really prefers to ride alone. The only explanation I have for it is that at some point in his life he was taught that being alone is much preferred to being around other horses.

I kinda wish these horses were having a more complicated day during these lessons because those are the times one needs more tools in the tool box.  She even said he’s broken out of stalls before.

Those are two of the most beautiful horses I have ever seen!  🥰🥰🥰  Lucky you, Avery!

I have been watching your ground work videos on patreon to try and touch base on those with Tanner again, as well to make it easier on me to work on this. I need to get myself out more often in this heat to work with him! Thanks again for having us and showing me how to work on this with Tanner 😊

This is a very effective concept when thinking about horse psychology. Pressure around the other horse = inconvenient, stressful, bad, he then understands: okay it's way more relaxed when i'm away from my buddy.

I've seen worse :-)
Beautiful horse! I had one that behaved the same way. He was imprinted as a foal. It can get better, but will take time.

My horse Jake was like this too. Turns out, he had cataracts. I still worked with him, but after he saw the vet again for continuing to have melt downs, it turns out he is now going blind. His pupils are fixed and dilated, has glaucoma in both eyes.

It's always a great day when Ryan posts. Love your content 👍

That was excellent, nice to see the adjustment of strategy as you evaluated Tanner’s response.  At the end he actually dropped his head a ‘little’, brought his head around check you out, then seemed to relax a bit,  moved his ears back toward you, indicating to me he was going to pay attention to you more!  Shifted his alliance maybe. He is stiff, more suppling would help him physically.

Hi I am Angela from  the Netherlands.
I’ve tried the method and it worked along the trail.
Thanks Ryan

Tanner is gorgeous!!