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A horse is designed with the need to form a bond with someone, and it's rewarding
when your horse chooses you to bond with. But when a horse bonds with its pasture
mate, it can result in bad behavior when you try to separate them or take one of
them out for a ride. Buddy sour horses may whinny constantly, try to run back to
the barn, buck, rear, toss their head, or try other annoying tactics. Here are a
few tips for coping with "separation anxiety" in horses:
1. Spend more time with your horse, away from his buddies. Your horse needs to
learn to be happy in your company and depend on you for the companionship he needs.
A lot of time spent in and out of the saddle will help your horse learn to trust
you and not need his equine friends.
2. Teach your horse to stand tied out of sight of the other horses. If you
practice this consistently, for a half hour or hour a day, your horse will stop
whinnying, fretting, worrying, and missing his friends. You see horses such as
mounted police horses standing perfectly still, no other horses in sight....they
have learned to be content because they practice it daily.
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