THE ATTENTIVE EQUINE AUDIENCE AT YOUR BARN

The next time you need to schedule a potentially stressful veterinary or farriery procedure for your horse, consider setting aside a space for the appointment where other horses can’t watch.

That’s the upshot of a new study from France that revealed the extent to which horses can develop positive or negative emotions by simply observing interactions between people and other horses―and how those impressions can have a lasting influence on their behavior.

For a study, conducted