Teatime with Elsa - Episode 147

Chatting about: How much freedom can your horse handle…

In this episode I talk about the idea that some horses can handle freedom better than others. A horse’s ability to handle freedom is dependent on multiple factors such as their emotional maturity, the environment they live in, the quality of the decisions they make in their ability to keep them safe and gain them friends, their ability to cope with stress, and the associations they have with their own decision making skills. We talk about making decisions for our horses based on their capacity for freedom and how we can help set horses up to develop their decision making skills and emotional maturity to find safety, comfort and enjoyment.

Originally aired on: September 9th, 2022