Unabridged Audiobook
A big warning for this book! The author is likely skilled in the knowledge of the brain - but in terms of horse knowledge and learning theory his book is a jumbled mess. Herd dynamics, the concepts of negative and positive reinforcement, punishment - find your education somewhere else, you won´t get it here. As an equine ethologist, I was disappointed in the incorrect statements, the lack of research that had gone into these parts of the book, and it made me distrustful of the rest. To write a book like this, basic knowledge of how horses interact with their herd (there is no such thing as dominant horses or an alpha mare - just for starters) is expected, and learning theory is just not correctly described. At all. I wish that the book had only covered the cognitive science and not mixed in the flawed statements about horse training. It would have made it such a better book.
Wonderful book that helped me to understand my mustang so much better. It's important to note that she is a neuroscientist and a horsewoman and she's correlating the two. There are a million horse training books out there and this isn't what this book is. It is to help understand your horse better so you can adapt your own training methods to suit it your own horse. Every horse owner needs to read this book.
awesome book every horseman should read
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