Equids have lived their whole historic, genetic lives with terror as a part of their natural existance. Horses have a normal, immediate reaction to danger that manifests itself as "flight or fight." In their world, safety is being out of the area of danger; either alone or as a herd they avoided serious injury or death by moving. Part of their reaction is because they are animals of prey

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