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This may happen but IMO it is more likely that once the physiological cause 
is gone, you still must work through a psychological component - similar to 
if a horse has been in pain, and the source of the pain is removed, he will 
need to learn that doing what used to cause him pain does not hurt anymore.

Kristen in TX

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <katswig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 8:57 PM
Subject: RE: [RC] Magnesium supplementing...etc.


> training or live with the spook. The point is, simply adding
> magnesium to a magnesium deficient diet, IMHO, is not
> going to result in a "magical" change in behavior.

It might.  If the cause of the horse's spookiness is hyperexcitability of
the CNS due to a magnesium deficiency, then if you get rid of the magnesium
deficiency, then you get rid of the hyperexcitability of the CNS and you
get rid of the spookiness, all without having done any training at all.



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