How to Get Your Horse to Trust You
Every horse owner wants their horse to love them, just as much as they love thier horse. Heres how.
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- Whenever you see it, talk to it sweetly and stroke its neck, massage its neck (horses love that), hug it, just show it that you love it.
- Understand that you cant depend on your horse for everything. For example, don't try to jump a 4 ft jump out of the arena, and say to yourself "I know my horse would never do anything to hurt me. I know it will make it over this jump and it will keep me safe." Because something could happen, it might not go through.
- Make wise decisions that you know will not put you or your horse in danger.
- Try to visit it as much as possible.
- When you ride, always pat it to tell it its doing something right.
- Don't ride it every day.
- Do NOT get overly mad at it if it does something wrong, its learning.
- If you know you have a fault in your riding ability, dont ride your horse in that way so your fault could hurt the horse. For Example: if your one of those people who pull back really hard while jumping, dont jump your horse until your over that. i know a person, and they turned their horse crazy by doing that. Ride in a halter, or work on flat till your over it. Jumping that like can rip lips, and cause anxienty towards jumping, so dont get mad when horses get anxiety.
- If a horse has anxiety towards jumping, start with ground poles and work your way up, when they refuse or speed in out of nervousness, nock it down to a ground pole again and start over. its ok.
- Reward your horse.
- Make sure it knows that you love it.
- Be forgiving.










