Tune in this week to hear how scientific research greatly contributes to a successful training regimen for horses. The ability to question methodology is an important critical thinking skill. Curiosity and the search for credible information lead me down the path towards a research based understanding of how the horse thinks, functions, and how we as humans can create and maintain a working and loving partnership. This episode introduces listeners to the work of well renounced researcher, Temple Grandin. A woman with Autism who, like a prey animal, thinks in pictures. Temple dedicated her work and her life to enhancing the design of humane slaughterhouses, primarily for cattle. Horses, like cattle, also think in pictures, are nonverbal, and contain no inner monologue. Understanding the cognitive functions of the horse can assist horse owners, riders, and trainers with trauma and fearful behaviors. In this episode we go through examples of that these concepts may look like in horsemanship.
For more information and research, check out www.templegrandin.com
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