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<p>Every year, police horses undergo police training focused on passing difficult obstacles, during which their physical and mental abilities are tested. Using a method of eye movement monitoring, specifically eye blinking and eyelid twitching, we estimated if the training of horses was stressful. The results we found suggested that the training itself, <italic>per se</italic> does not affect the welfare of police horses; as it is not stressful for them because the gradual training allows the horses to adapt to different types of work or physical activity.</p>
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Every year, police horses undergo police training focused on passing difficult obstacles, during which their physical and mental abilities are tested. Using a method of eye movement monitoring, specifically eye blinking and eyelid twitching, we estimated if the training of horses was stressful. The results we found suggested that the training itself, per se does not affect the welfare of police horses; as it is not stressful for them because the gradual training allows the horses to adapt to different types of work or physical activity.

Monitoring of Stress in Police Horses

Department of Public Veterinary Medicine and Animal Welfare

University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy in Kosice

Folia Veterinaria

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Every year, police horses undergo police training focused on passing difficult obstacles, during which their physical and mental abilities are tested. Using a...

Monitoring of Stress in Police Horses

Published Online: Apr 06, 2021

Page range: 54 - 58

Received: Nov 25, 2020

Accepted: Jan 27, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fv-2021-0007

Keywords
cortisol, eye-blink, eye-twitch, stress

© 2021 M. Lelláková et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Monitoring of Stress in Police Horses

Published Online: Apr 06, 2021

Page range: 54 - 58

Received: Nov 25, 2020

Accepted: Jan 27, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fv-2021-0007

Keywordscortisol, eye-blink, eye-twitch, stress

© 2021 M. Lelláková et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
cortisol, eye-blink, eye-twitch, stress