Why do we pat some animals on the bottom when we praise them?

Hi,

You see and hear it ^^ again and again. If, for example, a horse has done something great or right, you pat its bottom or neck and praise it. But why do you do that? Why don't you just stroke it, or better yet, give it a pat? 😀

Thanks for your answers and kind regards 🙂

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Urlewas
7 years ago

I don’t know that at all. I only knock on the Po if I want to make the animal aware of me, a horse, if necessary, so that it moves away – or to the side. I only know knocking as praise for horses on my neck. And this is such a sign language that you taught the horse. It knows from experience that the person who knocks it on his neck is happy with him, and that is often associated with rest or evening.

Baroque
7 years ago

This is modern now that you want to transfer your gesture to the others and therefore the Internet is full of “please never knock a horse”.

I am not a friend of the kisses left, kisses right, welcome – but confessed, if it is authentic, it is not unpleasant. Just like a hug to welcome. Among friends who are honestly happy to see each other, it’s nothing wrong for me. I don’t have such good contact with someone, and he’s making this habit, it’s stupid.

Every gesture must correspond to the type of man from which she comes and reflects his emotion, then she can be considered a nice, sweet, praiseful, friendly, cucumberous, funny, … (I deliberately throw a relationship and statement through each other because one does not feel analytically) and has an unmistakable statement.

This aspect is even more interesting for communication with the horse, because there is still lack of language understanding, the mimics and gestures are therefore more difficult. A horse that has a person who rather knocks on his shoulder – or at a time sitting next to him friendly on his leg – when he caresses other people friendly, it becomes a kind of “shoulder knocking” – just where it is offered, more rejoice than the forced petting, because it is possible to read everywhere on the Internet, you cannot knock the horses. My horse is totally sceptical at strokes. It was already when I met it, so it is not the influence of my being. He feels weird. Kraulen yes, when it aches, knocking people lie more than caressing, you realize very clearly what he thinks.

Baroque
7 years ago
Reply to  Anonym125213

Yes, yes. If it happens to you today in a riding stable, where there is only one who sees it differently, you will be talking about what you are doing to your animal.

mulano
7 years ago

I used to knock my sister’s horse on my shoulder. In dogs at the front of the belly.

mulano
7 years ago
Reply to  mulano

Po, too.

mulano
7 years ago
Reply to  mulano

I liked the most.

summersweden
7 years ago

So I’ve never heard of the Po before. But I praise the horse on my neck when riding too. The horse understands that it is praised. But from the ground or in cats, dogs, I’d rather crawl.

michi57319
7 years ago

I’ve never done it.

A horse has got strings with laid fingers for praise, so half a fist on his neck. I can only achieve the stubborn butt when I sit on it ^^

My dogs have also got a line around the neck, or an eye-catcher, rather than an ass on the flank.

I don’t have a cat, but all I’ve got to do with, like, as a confirmation, the claw in the head area.

TheoBN
7 years ago

Regardless of whether the knock is pleasant for the animals: As always, a lot is humanized in animals. And in humans, it is a praise to knock him on his shoulder when he did something good.

It’s probably what you want to do with the animals.

Urlewas
7 years ago
Reply to  TheoBN

That’s it. And since horses are quite “language gifted”, they understand this gesture quickly. But not on the Po.

ApfelTea
7 years ago

It’s just idiots. Animals are of course not knocked! That’s all but pleasant. Let yourself be knocked by someone, then you notice very quickly that strokes feel much better;)

ApfelTea
7 years ago
Reply to  ApfelTea

No one. People simply think that animals feel differently than humans

Baroque
7 years ago
Reply to  ApfelTea

Oh, a friendly shoulder knock I like to take on 😉

More important than the “type” of the gesture is how to bring it over. It must be real to reflect the emotion you feel. A nice tickle to which you notice “he, that was great” is much more pleasant than a prank because you do that, but without real emotion behind it, because the emotion would rather correspond to the tickle.

eppursimuove
7 years ago

because people are so used to it

flussi73
7 years ago

hello hyena

This is a way of behavior that is really common in horse-like living beings.

Horses are not cuddly animals

Georg1111111111
7 years ago

This has something to do with the body building of the animals. Similar to the shoulder of man. Not like a cat or you knock your cat? 😁😂

Henryettex
7 years ago

The knock is completely stupid. Horses like to be praised or crammed or verbally.