Description: 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.
Review Quotes:
"This book represents a major step forward for the human-horse relationship. Working within the horse's natural olfactory world to encourage exploration and reciprocal relationship, Rachaël Draaisma provides a well-researched and thoroughly conceptualized approach that is certain to be both enriching and enjoyable for horses and their people alike. Everyone who loves, lives, and works with horses will benefit greatly from reading this important addition to the literature. I have already made it required reading for our Equine Assisted Play Therapy(R) program. Highly recommended."
Risë VanFleet, PhD, CAEBC-I, Psychologist; Certified Animal Ethology & Behavior Consultant-Instructor, Coauthor of the award-winning book Animal Assisted Play Therapy(R), Principal, International Institute for Animal Assisted Play Therapy(R)
"My training has been given a whole new dimension, and the effect of the training has been mind-blowing with each of the highly sensitive competition horses (of various disciplines) I am working with."
Susan Kjærgård, Director Blue Berry Hill, Equine Instructor and former Grand Prix rider, Denmark
"Giving horses the opportunity to use their scenting ability restores natural behaviours and anatomical functional movement. It also bestows autonomy, facilitating positive confidence through freedom of movement and thought."
Julia Robertson, Director and Founder of Galen Myotherapy, UK
"Another eye- and brain-opener from this author. Turig Rugaas calls it a mental stimulation book for horses, but also it must surely stimulate the brain of any animal lover who likes reading and especially about horses. One of the great gifts of this book is that, apart from explaining the importance of giving the horse fulfilment, education and entertainment by using his sense of smell and helping him develop a new but natural element to his domestic life, it gives readers clear instructions and ideas for how to devise games and tasks to challenge their own horses, having first explained how the sense of smell works, how informative and useful it is to horses and its importance to the horse, so being a great relationship-builder."
Susan McBane, in Tracking-up magazine, May 2022