I’ve heard it said a horse has an excellent memory. I’ve been amazed by this memory from time to time when I ride a horse that hasn’t been ridden in years but who as a youngster might have had some good training. I apply a familiar cue and the horse responds with easy familiarity, as [...]
When I sense that a horse is fearful I’m going to approach how I work with him differently than if I sense challenge or indifference. There are different types of fear and I need to have a feel as to which type the horse has. There’s the fear a young, green horse will have with [...]
A few months back I was lucky enough to find a beautiful pasture to lease for our four horses. It’s five acres of beautiful grass, trees, seasonal creek and two shelters. The pasture hadn’t been used in a while and although it was fenced, there was some work that needed to be done to the [...]
As I’ve discovered lately, horse forums are a great networking source and a wonderful way to acquire tidbits of new horse knowledge! When I discovered that my mare had what looked to be ’stringhalt’ I posted a query on 3 of the four horse forums I’m signed up with. I was curious to find out [...]
About four days ago our 15 y.o. QH mare Rain started walking funny, a kind of ‘John Cleese’ exaggerated comic walk except it was only the left hind leg doing it!
Now when I first saw her doing this I had no clue what was going on! I did all the usual stuff, checked the foot, [...]
