Aggressive Horses

able to establish respect that is earned from exhibiting excellence in leadership skills -- that breeds trust and comfort. When getting in the middle of a couple of horses seriously fighting - they are not aware of the blows and kicks and pain from one another - they are intent on surviving. They've switched their brains into a survival mode. However, did you notice with the two mares that neither one of them died? (This refers to a fight the other writer witnessed between two mares) They were not out to kill but establish position in the social hierarchy of the herd. IF one really had the intent to kill then I can assure you the fighting would have escalated into something none of us would ever want to see. But, they *knew* what they were about and used the amount of pressure that was necessary to establish what needed to be established. Remember, though ... that was two prey animals fighting. Not an animal of prey fighting against a predator. We are predators. When we aggress a horse with excessive force, that switches the horse into survival mode ... there's a huge difference between the above two scenarios.

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