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When I was a teen, I volunteered at a horse therapy center for disabled children. I handled the horses. If a child had a violent episode on a horse, it was my job to get the horse away from the child while the counselors got the child away from the horse. 1 weekend of training
It's hard to overstate how dangerous that situation could be. You have a ~1200lb animal that can go into a panic if the wind rustles an umbrella wrong, and onto that animal you're putting e.g. an autistic child who sometimes lashes out physically when he starts to get tired
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and the weekend of training actually *was* enough, because even though things could go wrong a million ways, there were only a few things to remember in order to make good judgment calls. After drilling those, you need to do the work in order to develop good safety intuitions.
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FWIW, over my time there we had to perform several of these safety separations, and one of them was quite scary. But aside from scratches and bruises, noone was ever injured, and most importantly we never had a situation where a child ever came close to getting hurt
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