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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but we’re not meant to live like this.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but we’re not meant to live like this.

by Britta | Being Herd 🐎 | Jun 26, 2025 | Uncategorized

And neither are our Horses! Like us, domesticated horses no longer live the way they were designed for by evolution for hundreds of thousands – even millions of years. This disconnect leads to anxiety, overwhelm, loneliness, or repressed anger. For both of us, humans...
The Rise of Dominance: What Fear-Based Leadership Means for Horses – and for Us

The Rise of Dominance: What Fear-Based Leadership Means for Horses – and for Us

by Britta | Being Herd 🐎 | Apr 9, 2025 | Uncategorized

The Return of Fear-Based Leadership We’ve come so far. For years, the tide was shifting – away from fear-based leadership and dominance, away from control, and towards a leadership model based on trust and collaboration. More and more people began using...
Debunking the Dominance Theory — It’s not just about pure Logic!

Debunking the Dominance Theory — It’s not just about pure Logic!

by Britta | Being Herd 🐎 | May 11, 2024 | Uncategorized

That the dominance theory is outdated should not come as news to most horse or dog people. However, why is it still the foundation for most training methods in the equestrian world today? The problem, as I see it, is that pure science rarely changes behavior on its...

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