Monitoring of Stress in Police Horses

Monitoring of Stress in Police Horses

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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, here we estimated if the training of horses was stressful.The results we found suggested that the training itself, per se does not 12n/1200 wella 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.