Horse therapy is used for a wide range of physical and mental health problems Jaromir Chalabala/Shutterstock
Horses are becoming increasingly popular in therapy programmes designed for people with  but now it seems such interactions may be stressful for horses if they don’t have a choice about whether to be touched.
When the horses can choose to walk away, however, they appear significantly less anxious – and they often stay away from people’s hands altogether, says at the University of Guelph in Canada. “The choice to interact, or not, does seem to…
