Sometimes you have to think outside the box, or in this case inside a box.

This mare has a complex history of aggressive behaviours. Her owners are fantastic and we have made great progress at reducing her aggression by resolving the motivation behind the aggression.

She has a well established response of kicking when her hind legs are touched. We have used desensitisation so she is now relaxed at having them handled and groomed all the way to the hoof. We have a front hoof lift on voice and tactile cue, so we are now going to use the voice cue to ask for a hind lift.

But why the pole square ?