What is difference between NHE and NH?
Very simply, one can say that NH is about the humans comfort, safety, health and happiness whereas NHE is focused on the horse’s comfort, safety, health and happiness. The purpose and methods of NH, is for making life easier for the human, most often at the expense of the horse’s health and wellbeing. The belief is that the horse needs improving on and through sequential and methodical desensitization, the horse is forced to respond to requests from the human as a reflex. This makes him dull, deadened, predictable and ultimately “useful” to the human. Added to this is the fact that the main beneficiaries of the advancement of NH are the “leaders” and “teachers”. NH is multi-billion dollar industry which is ego driven and career orientated and one which takes from the horse and gives to the human. In stark contrast, NHE teaches that the horse is always right, that he is complex, intellectual and delicate, that his choices and reactions do not need improving on and that he is encouraged
