Knowing Your Horse

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A Guide to Equine Learning, Training and Behaviour

By Emma Lethbridge

Summary

Knowing Your Horse by Emma Lethbridge is an insightful guide that delves into the psychology of horses and their behaviour. It offers readers an understanding of equine communication and explores practical advice for fostering a better relationship between horse and owner. The book combines scientific knowledge with practical tips to enhance training and care.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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Book Hero Magic created this recommendation. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! IS THIS YOUR NEXT READ?

You might like this book if you're interested in understanding equine behaviour from a scientific perspective. It offers practical insights into horse psychology, making it ideal for anyone keen on improving their horse-human relationship through better communication and empathy.

If you understand how your horse learns and why your training is effective, you can train faster, more ethically, and more sympathetically. Emma Lethbridge thoroughly but simply explains learning theory, and how to apply it in a way that is both efficient for training and holds the horse's welfare paramount.

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Is your horse afraid of the farrier? Are you both struggling during training sessions? Do you want to use clicker training but don’t know where to begin?

If you understand how your horse learns and why your training is effective, you can train faster, more ethically, and more sympathetically. Knowing Your Horse will be a key resource if you want to better understand your horse’s behaviour and make the most of that understanding to improve your training techniques.

Knowing Your Horse gives you a range of practical tools to employ in solving equine behaviour problems, and training tasks and case studies demonstrate these tools in use. Emma Lethbridge thoroughly but simply explains learning theory as applied to horses and offers practical advice on reward systems, positive and negative reinforcement, and overcoming fears and phobias. If it’s not horses but humans that are causing you problems in training, this book will also help you to explain the concepts to other people. Learning recaps offer quick summaries, and training logs are provided for your own training notes.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Knowing Your Horse is praised for effectively combining scientific knowledge with practical training techniques, aiming to enhance the relationship between horse and owner. It offers insights into equine behaviour and encourages understanding rather than punishment, highlighting the importance of recognising communication from the horse when it's in distress. This work is recognised as an accessible and essential resource for anyone involved in horse training or riding, with the author noted for her ability to clearly convey complex concepts.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781405191647

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 May 2009

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 173.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 472g

Pages: 208

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About the Author

Emma Lethbridge is an animal behaviour consultant and riding instructor, who has ridden and trained horses for 20 years. She is currently reading a PhD in Psychology at the University of Lincoln. She holds a BSc (Hons) in Neuroscience from the University of Sussex and a Diploma in Practical Equine Behaviour, as well as having trained with the British Horse Society attaining the Groom’s Certificate and Preliminary Teaching Qualification. Emma currently trains with well-known classical dressage master Heather Moffett, and her renowned High School horse trainer assistant Becky Holden, and holds their ‘Enlightened Equitation Teacher’ Qualification.