Your Email Address (Required): Please Type Carefully Name (Required) Horse Psychology 101 QUIZ 8 True/False Flooding oftentimes triggers a horse’s flight or fight syndrome. Flooding presents the object of a horse’ s fear in small pieces that the horse can handle. Desensitization is based on getting a horse to accept the object of its fear. Flooding takes time and patience for the process to work. Some flooding technique can be hazardous to horses and humans. Desensitization is the first choice for teaching young horses to handle their fears. Tying up a weanling the first time to a ring in a wall is an example of flooding. Tying up a weanling the first time to an inner tube attached to a wall is an example of desensitization. Running a suckling on a horse trailer with its dam is an example of flooding. Cross tying a horse and then saddling him for the first time is an example of desensitization.
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