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Of course, the chances of any of these folks actually being accurate in their respective diagnosis just by looking at a photo of a horse standing in a pen are pretty slim. After all, a photo only captures a specific moment in time and seldom offers an overall view of the horse’s history, movement, or demeanor. But the point is, everybody who has spent time, effort, and resources learning how to get good in a certain aspect of equine care or training will more than likely look at every horse and every situation they come across through the filter of what they have been focusing on.

In and of itself this isn’t necessarily a bad thing, unless it blinds people to other possible options or causes for what they are seeing in the horse. Limiting our options almost never works out in our horse’s best interest. It has been my experience over the years that when it comes to working with or caring for horses, flexibility of thought and action is almost always the key to success. Time and time again I have run into horse owners who, because of a certain belief about horses or horsemanship, would completely discount trying something that a horse really needed simply because that thing didn’t fit into their belief system. It’s the sort of catch-22 of horsemanship. By eliminating viable options due to the well-meaning but possibly unrealistic ideals that we might have, solutions to chronic problems can, and often do, continue to elude us.