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James Meurer

Over the past few months I have had a lot of fun interacting with some wild brumbies that were adopted by some animal lovers in country New South Wales.  Here is an overview of some of the techniques I’ve been using to help them learn to trust and interact with people.

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When you think about it, horses and humans coming together; playing and working together, is a peculiar match. It is one you don’t see anywhere else in the world! What do I mean by this? Think about predators around the world; lions, bears, wolves, tigers, sharks etc. And now think prey animals; deer, sheep, zebra, wildebeast etc. The two just don’t mix! Predators are designed to hunt and kill prey animals while prey animals are designed to avoid these predators and so survive. Because of this you just don’t see the two species co-existing anywhere.

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