#Horsehealth #horse #horses We have to differentiate who is biting, a mare or a gelding/stallion. This is because both sexes react differently to human behaviour and here, too, we have to differentiate whether the horse is biting a man or a woman. Horses not only take information from people's behaviour in their body language, but also from their charisma. This contains, so to speak, the energetic signature with their inner attitude and way of life. For a better understanding: For example, when a horse is being groomed by a person, it can recognise the intention or longing behind it. It can tell whether the person is simply grooming the horse to get it clean, or whether they are grooming the horse to physically please the horse, like with a massage, or whether the person is grooming to fulfil their own need for touch and contact with a living being. For example, a mare can react to a woman by biting if she likes to play with her sex appeal in her life. Many women are not even aware of this. They may work in a job with a lot of male competition and like to flirt. Even if this is harmlessly the result of lust or appeasement behavior, mares react to it when this is no longer in a healthy balance for the woman. The mare then signals to the woman, so to speak, that she is in danger of opening the door to aggression. Another possibility for mares to bite women is that women are very harsh, demanding and dominant with their mare. This then reflects the harshness with which the woman seeks an overly male approach to her goals. Here, too, the mare has the ability to point out to her owner that she may be overtaxing herself with such harshness because she has never questioned the conditioning and programs she was brought up with in her childhood. If a mare bites a man, this can be a very complex issue. Because a mare normally submits herself to a male energy for better or for worse. This applies to both the stallion and the man. It is in their instinct to subordinate everything to the goal of reproduction. If a man has strong maternal themes, a mare can also bite from the energy and perspective of the mother, whose role the mare then takes over. The energy that clings to the man, that is, not being able to break free, is then, so to speak, bited away by the mare. Horses can always react to the immediate energy of the human himself and to the energy of his blockages or dependencies, which are often subtle and unconscious, but still very strong. A gelding or a stallion can simply bite women if a woman is too submissive and too fearful towards him. Geldings and stallions then tend to submit to the woman or use her as a scratching post whenever they feel like it. Even if the woman is too in love with her gelding or stallion, the horse then perceives this as intrusive and likes to bite in order to get rid of the behavior that seems very maternal. Any overprotectiveness from a woman has the effect of "keeping the horse down". The horse does not feel recognized as a male being and then tries to demonstrate by biting that he can be dangerous and that his behavior is masculine. Biting is also often an invitation to play for geldings and stallions. Fierce fights between them usually only take place through biting attacks in order to determine which of the two is faster. It is considered high rank if one bites faster than the other. You could, so to speak, take up the game as a human and use it to show your gelding or stallion in a simple way how nimble you are, provided that the human also has the full repertoire of body language and is aware of how many small things the horse recognizes in us in such an exchange of power. This is an opportunity to be respected by the horse at the highest level if you know how to practice it peacefully, but it is also the greatest danger if the horse realizes that we are not approaching this game calmly, peacefully and, above all, fairly. This is only recommended for those who really understand horses. You can read the whole article on our homepage under: Chi horsing, more than just horse psychology; snapping and biting in mares, geldings and stallions.