Dutch and Danish researchers have just presented a study at the 10th Equitation Science conference in Edinburgh that will be of …
Horse training articles
Trust and my truth about it – it can be a very scarey thing!
Trust is a bullshit word that annoys the heck out of me the way most people use it. One of the largest responses that I got to a recent …
Weaning of foals the stress free way
Cynthia Cooper of Naturalhorseworld.com just posted a fabulous article on weaning foals in a way that considers the emotional and physical …
Feeling safe with your horse/s at feed time
What do you - you personally - need from your horse to feel safe and be safe at feed time? This isn’t a trick question and there is no …
What do we do when our horse says “no”
This is another very old article from my old website that I liked so much that I brought it over here. Have any of you ever …
Bridle-less piaffe – and the baby steps that have to come first…
This article was written years ago and although I changed focus, I thought it was an interesting one to bring over to the new website. …
What if we could assume the rightness of everything that goes “wrong” with our horse?
I have had very large shift in perspective in the last few weeks that has had a major impact on my life in and out of horses – and I just …
Me, a snake and an insight on what it feels like to be a horse dealing with serious fear
I used to be snake phobic – so bad that I couldn’t watch them on TV without having nightmares. I had gotten rid of the outright …
Stringhalt query from a reader…
A reader with a stringhalted horse had been told to lock her horse up off the pasture, give it a mineral block, a large bale of hay and hard …
A powerful improvement to the Parelli Friendly Game
Whether you are into natural horsemanship or not – the Friendly Game, the rhythmic advance and retreat method of getting your horse used to …