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What Spooks YOUR Horse? #1 Horse Spooker For Many is The Fluttering Plastic Bag We agree, there are a LOT of things to hate about single use plastic bags, but to fear? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Of course, horses are essentially prey animals. Eons of genetic hard-wiring tell your horse to RUN AWAY. (Did you just hear that old Monty Python skit in your head? RUN AWAY...RUN AWAY...) While they can stand their ground and fight to the end, they are built to flee. This DNA still affects their daily lives even in the 21st century. To your horse, a car blaring it's horn, the UPS truck backing up or fireworks, all scream RUN! FLEE! GET OUTTA HERE! Just as we have triggers that send us into panic attacks, like public speaking, snakes, heights, spiders or mice (I've tried to explain to my husband why mice terrify so many of us and he just looks at me. He is not buying my fear of the Black Plague story at all, so can our horses. There may be no rhyme or reason to what triggers panic for man or horse, the best