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Equine Clicker 101 Lesson #25 Recognizing your Horse’s Body Language

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In this lesson, I discuss equine body language, facial expressions and the importance of recognizing when our horses go over threshold. These observations give us important information that we can use to improve our training. Our horses’ emotions are an important part of our relationship and they definitely come into play with training. We will take a look at how our horses respond in different situations.

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