Relieve Stress and Anxiety with ProSix

How does your horse react to new experiences?

New environments; new horses, new people, other animals, new training and learning challenges, new equipment and obstacles, anything new, different, or out of the usual routines.

Is your horse’s response to new things curious, anxious, guarded, hyper focused, nervous, fearful, avoidant, or shut down?

Each response tells you about the horse’s current state of mind.

If she is already feeling stress, that “new thing” could be more than she can handle at this time. Other stressors may include hunger, pain, being apart from trusted friends, confinement, being overtired, illness, heat or cold, and anything that would cause discomfort physically or emotionally.

Each response may tell you about the horse’s temperament and personality.

Sometimes you have to remove stressors before you see who is really underneath. A fearful horse can become curious and interested with support and encouragement. An avoidant horse can seek interaction. A shutdown horse can learn to play.

Each response is also a possible clue about this horse’s past.

A horse’s experiences, his learned responses, his stress triggers, his stress limits, how much time he needs to process new information, the distance needed to observe something new before approaching it; all of these observations are important information when helping a horse gain trust and confidence.

Routines and predictable outcomes may feel safe to anxious horses.

It is also important to vary routines occasionally, and offer new experiences to build confidence.

How can you help calm a stressful, anxious horse? ProSix!

ProSix is gentle compression wrap surrounding the horse’s body, providing nervous system and musculoskeletal support. A horse locked into stress and fear ensures her own survival first. Survival mode is not a learning state. Chronic stress is harmful to health. ProSix is a proven way to support the traumatized, mistrustful, over dependent, injured, painful, neurological, or shut-down horse.

ProSix is recommended for stressful situations such as trailering, visits from the veterinarian, farrier, or dentist, exposure to new environments, people, or treatments, periods of stall rest, changes in exercise or play routines, training, learning, and whenever calming support is needed.