I hope you remember me from psychology graduate school back in the early ’80s. Time flies. Anyway, I still have horses and enjoy your contributions on behavior to The Horse magazine and web site. Sometimes I wish I had gone into horse or dog behavior, but I am enjoying work as a clinical psychologist and enjoying horses for a diversion. I’ve been starting a new driving prospect, which has been fun. We’re both taking lessons. He’s doing better than I am.

Anyway, I hope you don’t mind me writing in with a somewhat professional question. The topic is more in the area of human behavior or horse welfare than a horse behavior question, but I imagine you have encountered the issue and I wondered whether horse behavior and welfare specialists might have addressed it