Mamba, the stallion, a horse being a horse

12/07/2025

If you live it, then you just know 🤎

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12/07/2025

12/07/2025

The expression of when he would like to react to the annoying approach of another horse, but he tries to be the "good horse" I always tell him to be 😁😍

12/07/2025

This time I want to speak a bit about reassurance.
When horses are afraid and stressed their behavior can quickly become so erratic and their movements so strong and fast that the situation can easily become quite dangerous for us humans.
Horses are prey animals and so it is simply natural for their fear responses to be so huge, consequently we don't ever have to judge them as being bad or naughty, by doing something intentionally to hurt us, as theirs is just a surviving instinct and not a disobedience at all.
Well, horses have two basic responses to scary situations: if it's possible they run away, while if they feel trapped they begin to fight for their own survival.
So for us humans is important to try staying always below their panic threshold, developing the ability to understand their emotional state accurately, while also being self-aware of our own one too, as our horse will tend to mirror our emotions too.
So if we can remain calm this in itself can be a very important first reassurance for our horse, communicating that there's nothing to fear.
Then to me there are basically three effective ways to deal with a scared horse.
1) Speaking with a calm, low tone while gently caressing him with a thoughtful steady touch, absolutely never slapping, can help him to settle down.
On the contrary a loud screaming voice can get just the opposite effect.
2) The eating motion alone generally settles horses down and actually provides reassurance that they are safe, as horses don't eat without feeling a sense of safety.
So it's useful to let them eat something and in fact it's very common to see fearful horses grabbing a bite of grass and quickly bringing their head up again, dancing around a bit and then grabbing another bite, going on like this until they finally care more about eating than what they were afraid of.
3) Rather than attempting to restrain a scared horse by increasing his sense of feeling in danger, it's more useful to ask for a simple releasing movement, such as walking around us: what's more horses in the wild are reassured of safety by the guide of the herd who knows when and where to move the herd for its protection.
So at the end of the day our human reassurance for a fearful horse can be expressed in some different ways, but all of them have always in common a calm, confident and skillful handling being based on a willing cooperation and a developed sense of mutual trust 🧡

12/07/2025

Horses' brain is just about a third the weight and size of ours and some people use this information to say that then horses are stupid...
No, their brain's size has nothing to do with their intelligence, while simply their own animal priorities are not our human ones, as they just can’t see things from our own perspective and consequently they cannot think like we do.
Yes, horses don’t care about our goals and the activities we want them to do, while they care just about their own inner balance and their sense of security before anything else.
So it's up to us understanding their animal needs and act accordingly: if we can’t take care of these fundamental basic needs of them, then our human goals are simply meaningless to them, even becoming something they feel the need to actively resist to, in order to take care of themselves first ❣️

12/07/2025

Lifetime bonds...horses are meant to be like this 💞

The way of the wild … Patches nurses Peaches and Peaches nurses Liam. We can learn so much by watching our wild families.

11/07/2025

Mamba and Ferdinando, half-brothers and best friends since their birth.
Forever together 🤎

11/07/2025

🌀 Are You Willing to Be Rejected by a Horse?

We often say we want a real connection with our horses.

But are we willing to face what that really means?

Because real connection can’t be forced.
It can’t be bought, trained, or coaxed.
It can only be offered… freely.
And that means sometimes… it won’t be.

Sometimes the horse turns away.
Sometimes they say no.
Sometimes they don’t choose us.
And it hurts.

It touches that tender part inside us—the one that longs to be seen, loved, accepted.
The one that learned long ago to earn belonging through effort, performance, or control.

But horses don’t love like that.
They don’t flatter.
They don’t fake.
They don’t stay close unless it feels safe and true.

And in that, they become our greatest teachers.

They ask:
Can you handle my honest no without collapsing into shame?
Can you still stand open, even when I don’t come to you?
Can you love yourself enough not to take it personally?

Because when we stop trying to win them…
We start becoming someone worthy of being chosen.
Not by force. Not by fear. But by presence.

And when a horse does choose us—freely, fully, with no ropes or reins—
That moment becomes holy.

✨
Have you ever let a horse walk away… and stayed open anyway?

11/07/2025

Our adorable spoiled creatures 😛💕

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11/07/2025

Very interesting....

Did you know horses dont have a gallbladder?

Their liver continuously secretes bile directly into the small intestine, as opposed to storing it in a gallbladder for later use.

Here's why and what it means:

Continuous Bile Secretion:
Unlike many mammals, horses lack a gallbladder, which means their liver constantly releases bile into the small intestine.

Fat Digestion:
Bile is crucial for fat digestion, and horses are able to digest and absorb relatively high levels of fat in their diet despite not having a gallbladder.

Trickle Feeding:
Horses are designed to graze continuously on forage, which means they don't have the same need for a gallbladder as some other animals that consume large meals less frequently.

Liver's Role:
The liver plays a vital role in a horse's digestive process, and it is the organ responsible for both producing and delivering bile to the small intestine.