02/02/2024
♥️♥️♥️Equine Enrichment !
Miss Freya loves Geranium Scent on the Scent Board !!
👃💐🌸🌻Horses and Olfactory Perception is such an interesting area to study and tap into for Enrichment & Positive Reinforcement!
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“Horses could be conditioned to associate a specific odor with positive stimuli such as grooming, feeding or social comfort, and the same odor could potentially be applied during stressful or fear-eliciting situations such as trailer loading, regrouping, and social isolation.”
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Rørvang MV, Nielsen BL, McLean AN. Sensory Abilities of Horses and Their Importance for Equitation Science. Front Vet Sci. 2020 Sep 9;7:633. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2020.00633. PMID: 33033724; PMCID: PMC7509108.
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN READING MORE ABOUT “Semsory Ability of Horses..” follow this link 🙂
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7509108/