Buster
In the last post I introduced the concept of adaption. You can read about it here . It is an ability that all horses have as part of their ‘tools’ for dealing with the world. It is a powerful drive, I believe it is as powerful as their biological desire for safety, food and reproduction. It is also one of the reasons we find the horse an attractive species for domestication because its innate ability to adapt helps us achieve many of the things we want to do with it, for example, we can use the natural instinct to belong to a herd to form a relationship with a horse, one that leads on to training it. Continue reading
