The Journal of Animal Consciousness Vol 1, Issue 2 Vol 1 Issue 2 | Page 17

is just as important as the inter-species relationship aspect in determining the quality of this resonance. We can liken our domestic animals to our own kidneys…they filter everything that goes on in our lives. The day-to-day interaction that the horse has with the human care-giver (be it owner, stable manager and/or anyone else) has the potential to run the gamut of beneficial to becoming detrimental and disruptive – the latter situation being one that may place the human at even greater risk of physical harm than normal. Since the time the horse was brought into the human’s sphere thousands of years ago, human has been trying to figure out ways to get the horse to do his bidding at any level; the primary approach to this is most commonly