Unlike a lot of people, if you treat a horse decently—feed him, care for him, keep him safe—he will almost always treat you decently.
Like a lot of people, if someone else has abused them they may try to hurt you.
I grew up on a horse. In fact, my legs are still a little bowed from it. Horses and humans do bond but then so do cows raised under the same conditions. As long as the horse wasn’t my horse, I could eat it.
I threatened to eat my old Buckskin several times. He had a habit of stepping on my feet every time I’d feed or brush him, he thought it was funny! Every year I do hunts for Veterans on the big ranch, pretty much standard setups with blinds over looking sendero’s. Two years ago I changed it up and instead of them staying in the ranch house I sat up two big miltary cook tents and some smaller ones. All hunting is done from that camp and all is done on horseback, we only use lever action rifles and open sights.
Some of these men have never hunted let alone been around or rode a horse but just one day and you’d think they were frontiersmen of years gone past. We don’t get allot of deer this way but we have a damn good time. A day on a good horse is soothing to the soul and thats just what these men need.