Rachaël Draaisma

Tämä käytännöllinen opaskirja auttaa tulkitsemaan ja yhdistämään toisiinsa fyysisiä signaaleja, joita hevonen ilmentää reagoidessaan ympäristöönsä. Hevoset käyttävät signaaleja päivittäin osana toimintaansa, elekieltään ja suhtautumistaan eri asioihin ollessaan tekemisissä lajikumppaniensa kanssa. Ne ovat niin hienovaraisia, että ihminen ei aina havaitse niitä. Tämän kirjan tavoitteena on korjata tuo puute ja tarjota hevosten ystäville ja alan ammattilaisille entistä syvempää ymmärrystä hevosen kokemusmaailmaan. Tässä kirjassa•kuvaillaan yksityiskohtaisesti kesyhevosen elekieltä ja painotetaan erityisesti rauhoittavia signaaleja•on 275 valokuvaa erilaisista eleistä, rauhoittavista signaaleista, käyttäytymisketjuista ja ilmeistä•esitellään viestinnän portaita, jotka osoittavat, miten hevonen reagoi ympäristöstään saamiinsa vaikutteisiin ja millaisia signaaleja se käyttää erilaisissa tilanteissa•on vinkkejä viestinnän portaiden ja rauhoittavien signaalien käytöstä hevosen sosialisaation, kouluttamisen ja hyvinvoinnin edistämiseen•käsitellään hevosen henkistä stressiä ympäristönäkökulmasta ja esitellään toimivia vaihtoehtoja nykyisin yleisesti käytössä oleviin toimintamalleihin. Kirjan lukeminen auttaa tunnistamaan helpommin hevosen rauhoittavia signaaleja, korvaavia käyttäytymismuotoja, stressin merkkejä ja välimatkan pidentämiseen tähtääviä eleitä. Siten on helpompi arvioida omien havaintojen perusteella, mitä vaikutteita hevonen kykenee käsittelemään ja mistä se ei selviä. Se auttaa rauhoittamaan hevosta ennen kuin tilanne etenee hallitsemattomaksi. Hevosten elekieli ja rauhoittavat signaalit on mielenkiintoista ja tärkeää luettavaa jokaiselle eläinlääkinnän ammattilaiselle ja opiskelijalle, hevosen omistajalle ja kouluttajalle sekä kaikille hevosharrastajille.

Scentwork for Horses is the first practical guide on how to implement scentwork into the lives of domesticated horses, enhancing behaviour, welfare, and the human-animal bond. Scentwork is a new discipline in the field for horse and handler, and expert author Rachaël Draaisma arms the reader with a palette of information to enable them to put this technique into action. As well as theoretical background information on the nose of the horse and biomechanics, Draaisma discusses how scentwork improves horses’ learning abilities, development, socialisation, and their bond with the handler. Readers will learn how to have their horses explore their environment, participate in scentwork games and follow a footstep track to find a missing person or food bag. Easily accessible for anybody working with horses at any level, scentwork can be done in small areas as well as in larger spaces on various surfaces. Whether veterinarian, behaviourist, trainer, animal-assisted therapist, equine physiotherapist, osteopath, or interested horse owner, this book promises to bring both you and the horse enormous benefits, strengthening the human-animal bond. Rachaël Draaisma has always lived with and had a passion for dogs and horses. In 2002, she decided to make it her profession. Achieving several diplomas, she started to work full time as a trainer and behavioural consultant, first with dogs, later with horses. Her best-selling book Language Signs and Calming Signals of Horses, published by CRC Press in 2017, has been translated into several languages. Another pillar of Draaisma’s working life with horses revolves around equine mental stimulation and scentwork, and she has developed an extensive method to undertake scent tracking with horses, a new tool in enriching the human-equine relationship. Draaisma travels throughout Europe and the globe to provide workshops and lectures on calming signals of horses, equine mental stimulation, and scentwork. You can purchase scent bags to aid your scentwork practice at the author's personal website: www.scentworkforhorses.com or www.calmingsignalsofhorses.com

Scentwork for Horses is the first practical guide on how to implement scentwork into the lives of domesticated horses, enhancing behaviour, welfare, and the human-animal bond. Scentwork is a new discipline in the field for horse and handler, and expert author Rachaël Draaisma arms the reader with a palette of information to enable them to put this technique into action. As well as theoretical background information on the nose of the horse and biomechanics, Draaisma discusses how scentwork improves horses’ learning abilities, development, socialisation, and their bond with the handler. Readers will learn how to have their horses explore their environment, participate in scentwork games and follow a footstep track to find a missing person or food bag. Easily accessible for anybody working with horses at any level, scentwork can be done in small areas as well as in larger spaces on various surfaces. Whether veterinarian, behaviourist, trainer, animal-assisted therapist, equine physiotherapist, osteopath, or interested horse owner, this book promises to bring both you and the horse enormous benefits, strengthening the human-animal bond. Rachaël Draaisma has always lived with and had a passion for dogs and horses. In 2002, she decided to make it her profession. Achieving several diplomas, she started to work full time as a trainer and behavioural consultant, first with dogs, later with horses. Her best-selling book Language Signs and Calming Signals of Horses, published by CRC Press in 2017, has been translated into several languages. Another pillar of Draaisma’s working life with horses revolves around equine mental stimulation and scentwork, and she has developed an extensive method to undertake scent tracking with horses, a new tool in enriching the human-equine relationship. Draaisma travels throughout Europe and the globe to provide workshops and lectures on calming signals of horses, equine mental stimulation, and scentwork. You can purchase scent bags to aid your scentwork practice at the author's personal website: www.scentworkforhorses.com or www.calmingsignalsofhorses.com

This practical book helps you interpret and connect the physical signals that horses display in response to their environment. These signals are evident in the everyday actions, gestures and attitudes that horses communicate to each other, but are often so subtle that they can go unnoticed by humans. This book aims to rectify that, offering horse lovers and equine professionals an opportunity to gain a unique insight into their 'horse's world'. Key features:includes detailed description of language signs of domestic horses, with a special emphasis on calming signalsincludes 275 pictures to visualize various language signs, calming signals, behaviour sequences and facial featurespresents communication ladders to show how a horse responds to incentives in his environment, and what signals he uses at certain momentscontains tips on the use of the communication ladders and calming signals to improve the socialisation, training and wellbeing of your horseconsiders equine psychological stress from an environmental perspective, providing a valuable alternative to the current common clinical perspective. After reading this book you will be more astute in spotting calming signals, displacement activities, stress signals and distance-increasing signals, and better able to see which stimuli your horse can handle and which he cannot. This means you will know what to do to calm your horse before his stress rises to an unmanageable level. Language Signs and Calming Signals of Horses is both fascinating and important reading for any equine veterinary practitioner, student or nurse, as well as horse owners and trainers.