Posted on 08/09/2018 11:50:47 AM PDT by ETL
When horses snort, they are up to something. Stallions sure aren’t being friendly when they snort. Other horses snort when they are running and playing. If you are on a horse or have one in hand and they start snorting it usually means they are fixin to have a come a part.
I remember meeting a mother horse for the first time. Just like any mom loves it when you praise their little one, she loved it when I praised her beautiful colt.
Her colt was frightened. I noticed that she didn’t coddle the colt. She merely showed the colt by example that it didn’t have to be afraid, because she wasn’t. The colt caught on quickly. More people should be like that with their children, rather than over coddling them.
I will snort also, when I laugh really hard. I once had a great friend who snorted quite a bit when she laughed. It in itself was quite funny.
Lol! He probably was.
I've been around plenty of stallions. Snorting to them is a sign of aggression. Never said anything about being a weakness. Their most aggressive posture is rearing to try and gain an advantage over a rival or countering a threat. But snorting is one of their ways to clear their path (or their nostrils).
He’s saying “get out of here” by pawing the ground.
All horses hoof the ground, and for various reasons. When they are in their stalls, in cross-ties, or awaiting food in a paddock. Most do so out of boredom.
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