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Does Your Horse Seek Your Approval?
Posted: December 22, 2011
In the above picture, by way of interests sake, this horse is most definitely not seeking my approval. He is extremely wary, and ready to plant a hoof on my head at any second. This indeed, is the very opposite of seeking approval. In a way, for my own self preservation, I am seeking his, because depending on how he interprets what I'm doing, he will fight or flee. The give and take in horse human relationships is very interesting.
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