Driving Lessons

[Sanhestar]

Nanno,

I can't speak to what happened between your horse and you on that day in the past. What lead up to that outburst, etc. because nobody else was there but you.

I think that both of you reacted on instinct but not on ground of a dominance theory that has by now been disproved to exist in horses and even in canines.

http://www.equine-behavior.com/Dominance...horse1.htm

I read another article way back (which I can't find at the moment) that we as humans jump to easily to behavioral models calling another species dominant or "in need of being put in place" because the social structure we envolved out off is/was a highly dominance based one. We are, in a way, blind on that eye to recognise other structures in the social order of another species and label what we see with terms we are familiar with.

We also have to keep in mind that almost every social group of animals we observe is a domesticated and artificially formed group, nothing "grown" in nature and in a natural habitat.