They aren't made to counter the movement, they are meant to flow with it.
A herding dog would counter or stop the movement, a fish in a school, or a sheep or horse in a herd, flows with it. The communal mind that is a pack oriented predator is different than that of a herd prey - jobs are assigned and there is perhaps more individual responsibility in a predator pack, but in a herd, there are a few assigned jobs, and the rest do the same thing.
That's my guess. If they mean that horses are more sensitive to body language than dogs, they are full of BS. I'd say they are probably even with training.
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Date: 2007-01-29 01:30 am (UTC)They aren't made to counter the movement, they are meant to flow with it.
A herding dog would counter or stop the movement, a fish in a school, or a sheep or horse in a herd, flows with it. The communal mind that is a pack oriented predator is different than that of a herd prey - jobs are assigned and there is perhaps more individual responsibility in a predator pack, but in a herd, there are a few assigned jobs, and the rest do the same thing.
That's my guess. If they mean that horses are more sensitive to body language than dogs, they are full of BS. I'd say they are probably even with training.