Natural Horsemanship

I often see the term natural horsemanship used as some elusive philosophy that you have to be born with the gift of whispering to horses and capable of feeling a horse’s energy through your hands to get the horse to love you and want to do anything. That term of natural horsemanship is mythical bullshit that people get off on. You want to see how horses naturally interact with each other? Take out a bucket of grain to the pasture, and you’ll see a lot of natural ass kicking. Take the head mare in a herd for example - she will look and pin her ears at another horse, which is the nicest way of asking that horse to move his feet. If that other horse doesn’t move his feet, then the mare will go to bite him, and if that other horse still doesn’t move, the mare will threaten to kick, and if the horse still doesn’t move his feet, she’ll kick the piss out of that horse. Horses break each others legs all the time, and that’s a death sentence in nature. My point is, horses ask, insist, tell, and enforce by escalating pressure to do whatever it takes to get the job done - that is natural horsemanship.