Animal Health and Behaviour
• McTimoney Animal Manipulation
• Tellington Ttouch Training
“For optimum health, performance and wellbeing”
- Stiffness and pain after rest
- Uneven wear of shoes
- Difficulty going up/down hills/ramps
- Reluctance to jump/knocking poles
- Reluctance to get in/out of the trailer
- Aggressive/defensive behaviour
- Reluctance to exercise/tiredness
- Stiffness and pain after exercise
- Changes in coat condition/direction
- Excessive itching/licking of certain areas
Always rolling/lying to one side
Training and rehabilitation...
As well as adjusting any misaligned joints and addressing physical issues it is important that any ongoing training, management and/or behavioural issues are also addressed. Tellington Ttouch can help resolve many training and behavioural problems without the use of dominance or negative reinforcement.
Horses cannot tell us when they are uncomfortable or in pain, however uncharacteristic changes in behaviour or performance should alert the owner to a possible problem...
Signs of pain/tension in horses?
- Asymmetry, such as stiffness on one rein, or a disunited canter
- Uneven muscle development or muscle wastage
- Sore/cold backs
- Resistance and evasions such as napping/bucking/rearing/bolting
- Increased spookiness
- Uncomfortable/hollowing through transitions
- Moving off when mounted/difficulty maintaining halt
- Unexplained lameness/changes in movement
- Signs of pain/discomfort when being tacked up/groomed