There is a spectrum from 0 – 100+ or maybe more in terms of engagement and levels of interaction for horse and human.
The spectrum for horse and human
Category Archives: dude string horses
He’s not my horse
I was recently at a clinic where two people were riding schooling horses. Although this may not be the case with all bonds formed with schooling horses, the bond was not there with these two pairs.
10 lessons in horse love
It’s debatable whether horses love people or not. But they definitely feel very big emotion for them and about them. It’s easy to be flattered when a horse pays special attention to you and depends upon just you – even more so than when your dog licks your face!
Straight from the heart…what do horses tell us?
Valentine’s Day is a great opportunity to talk about what we think of “love” between ourselves and our horses. We don’t really need studies to tell us what we feel about our horses and probably we have a good sense of how our horses feel about us. So much of what we feel would be considered “anecdotal evidence,” yet it is powerful and real. But there have been pilot studies done on the relationships between people and their horses, with some surprising, validating results.
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10 tips to riding horseback for the rest of your life
(Okay, if you really want to, you can get off to sleep and for meals, if you think it’s necessary.) 
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