Disciplining Your Horse - Part 1

personal attack and exhibiting the same fear and aggression that we presented first.
When one horse scolds another there is usually no anger attached and therefore no fear. But our barnkept horses never learn how to give or take correction without giving or taking offense.
When we raise a foal it is often not in a natural herd environment. Some mares do not even know how to scold their offspring because they never had enough interaction with a herd to develop the skills of herd discipline. A mare and her foal do not make a herd. If she was never scolded by her dam she may have no parenting skills when it comes to disciplining her own foal when he steps out of line. The foal will learn to do whatever it wants with no consequence attached. If the mare does keep her foal in line it needs to be supported by those involved in the daily handling of that foal. Otherwise the foal could learn to work his authority figures against each other. Not unlike children who when told by one parent that they cannot have a cookie go and ask their other parent who might say yes foals learn which parent is more likely to give them a cookie in the first place.
From a trainers perspective handling a horse with a temper makes the initial job more difficult. I have to be prepared to let the horse work through his fits and reestablish better habits to deal with his frustration or fear. Once the horse learns that he will not be rewarded for problem behaviour he realizes it is not effective anymore and at that point he becomes just another horse.
If the horse has been extreme in his tantrums then I must be able to work the horse through his