Draaisma, rachael (71 risultati)

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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen; Leichte Verformung / umgeknickte Seiten. This practical book helps you interpret the physical signals horses display in response to their environment. These subtle signals manifest in everyday actions and gestures that often go unnoticed by humans. The book offers horse lovers and equine professionals unique insights into their horses' world. Key features include a detailed description of domestic horse language signs, particularly calming signals, and 275 pictures to visualize various behaviors and facial features. It presents communication ladders to illustrate how horses respond to environmental incentives and the signals they use at different moments. Additionally, it provides tips on using these ladders and calming signals to enhance socialization, training, and overall well-being. The book also addresses equine psychological stress from an environmental perspective, offering a valuable alternative to the common clinical approach. After reading, you will be more adept at recognizing calming signals, displacement activities, stress signals, and distance-increasing signals, enabling you to identify which stimuli your horse can manage. This knowledge will help you calm your horse before stress escalates. This book is essential reading for equine veterinary practitioners, students, nurses, horse owners, and trainers.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. 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 Rachael 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.Rachael 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 Draaismas 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: or This 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 and Draaisma arms the reader with a pallet of information to enable them to put this technique into action. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. 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. This practical book helps you interpret and connect the physical signals that horses display in response to their environment. It offers horse lovers and equine professionals an opportunity to gain a unique insight into their 'horse's world', helping them calm the horse before his stress rises to an unmanageable level. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Condizione: New. 2020. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 1st edition. 263 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 1st edition. 182 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.