Equine behaviour specialists are presenting a webinar find out how to find out how to assist a horse or pony with needle shyness, with tried and examined strategies.
Equine behaviour specialists are presenting a webinar subsequent week find out how to find out how to assist a horse or pony with needle shyness.
When a horse or pony is needle shy it is actually because they’re fearful about having an injection. Their concern response could also be proven by way of avoidance behaviours akin to pulling away, pushing handlers out of the best way, rearing or making an attempt to flee. When a horse is needle shy this could be a very tense and horrifying expertise for them. The drawback usually escalates when injections are tried whereas they’re feeling afraid.
The webinar is a part of the Confident Horse webinar sequence hosted by The Mare and Foal Sanctuary.
The charity’s behaviour specialists have put collectively a information to serving to horses who’re fearful about having injections. Using a real-life instance, the group will present tried and examined strategies that may take the concern out of vet visits. The information is full of helpful and sensible ideas to assist homeowners work with their horses in direction of a everlasting resolution.
Anna Haines, Equine Behavioural Lead on the Mare and Foal Sanctuary, stated there have been many conditions the place horse homeowners merely hope for the most effective when the time arrives for veterinary intervention.
“We have a lot of expertise of dealing with undesirable behaviour like this. We’re eager to share our Confident Horse sequence with as many individuals as attainable to allow them to profit from our data. Time and time once more we’ve got seen our strategies make an actual distinction.
“This training doesn’t need to take up lots of your time but can instead just become part of your normal daily routine with your horses. Ensuring that our horses remain calm and relaxed during our training sessions with a focus on them having a positive, enjoyable experience can help us to create horses who are confident in a variety of different situations.”
The Confident Horse sequence of movies and webinars was launched earlier this yr as a manner for horse homeowners across the nation to faucet into the sanctuary’s wealth of expertise and data.
A donation of £10 to register for the webinar will assist the charity present lifelong, life-changing care to horses and ponies in want. Some 634 horses and ponies are at the moment below the care of the Mare and Foal Sanctuary, which works for all horses and ponies however has explicit expertise in managing and coaching feral or unhandled horses and ponies and caring for mares in foal and orphaned or deserted foals.
» Register for the “Helping the needle shy horse”, on December 8 at 7.30pm (GMT).
