Re: How to understand horse emotions? Help pls.

Sometimes I get a pop up with what’s wrong, sometimes I don’t. 

a few reasons I’ve had for a sad horse, if it helps, are:

A needy horse who wants to be hand fed only (super annoying to keep running out to hand feed but he was sad every time he used the feeder. 

A horse from a champion bloodline, that was basically training herself in jumping and agility was sad every time she knocked her barrels or rails down. 

And as someone else mentioned if they go too long without being ridden they get sad or bored.

And last, for a while I had two horses that trained on their own and one that didn’t. The one who didn’t train was always sad that he wasn’t having fun…but he wouldn’t train or use the ball on his own and my college student sim did not have time to ride him all the time.