El Blanco loves grapes,
Romanesque likes bananas.
Maestro likes apples cut in slices.
Toronto goes for carrots.
And Prince Elmelund steals the pears in our garden!
Now your horse can perceive a treat - given by us personally - in two ways:
- 1. He sees it as a gift from you
- 2. He is taking it from you
But this is important:
If we use our hands to give our horse a treat, we have to make sure our horse sees it as a gift!
He should not experience it as if he’s taking it from us.
Now, this might look like a slight difference and a tiny detail...
But the devil is in the detail:
It will make a HUGE difference in our horse’s perspective and his mental state!
Therefore, he's not allowed to demand, take or snatch the treat from you.
So if our horse sees it as a gift and accepts it in a polite and gentle way, it will prevent all kind of begging, grabbing, and mugging issues. 
4 Tips
Here’s how you teach your horse to accept your treat in a respectful way:
- When your horse has a pushy attitude and wants to take it from you in a kind of rude way, don’t give it and don’t let him have it.
- Just take the food away or keep your hand closed to take away the desired treat, in order to let him know his behavior is undesired.
- When he keeps an opposed face or state, back him up until he shows a friendly face, then release, to let him know this is the desired mental state.
- Keep protecting your space and only when he’s more friendly and polite and only when he behaves, you reward this desired behavior by giving him the treat.
