September 3, 2010
Training Horses - Individual Differences
The best way to recognize whether or not a person or animal has really mastered a lesson is to see if they can apply what they know to different circumstances. Horses frequently demonstrate that they haven’t really learned a lesson when they do things like spooking at an object that has been moved to a new location or because they are moving in a different direction. Yes, the object may look slightly different from a new perspective, but that is exactly the point, they are not applying what they know about the object by recognizing that it is only a different view point.
