Books with Spirit – Joyfulness between horses and people

Well, I’ve got to tell you, I am as surprised as anything I have ever been surprised about. For those of you who have read Zen Connection with Horses, you might remember our racehorse, Desert Moon (aka Sunny) as being a horse who fights when she is afraid. (You know, there are horses who run when they are afraid, horses who freeze and horses who fight.)  Click here for another article about horses’s who freeze when they are afraid.

Well, it turns out that the fight reflex was not genetic like I thought it was.  It was imprinted into her by humans who cornered her – trapped her in a small space when she was young (a foal by the feel of it). 

It is such a normal thing for us humans to do, I have done it dozens and dozens of times myself in the old days before I knew a different way.  You get the horse in a corner where they can’t get out and catch them when they give up.

Click here to read the rest of this story with its surprise ending.