Problem Solving and Hay In Our Bras.
It blurted out the end of my fingers before I knew it. "Eventually I learned how to keep hay out...
The Art of Un-Training a Horse
The first video is of a Mustang, proud and breathtakingly beautiful. He's a burnished smoky buckskin, with a...
The Long Ear Answer to Humans Doing Everything The Hard Way
"I am not sure why horse people are especially prone to doing things the most difficult way possible, but it's...
Wild or Tame: Trust Actions Above Words
This is my neighborhood. That's Pikes Peak peering over the horizon, exactly where it was when I bought the farm....
Affirmative Anxiety
For as often as we've watched horses run and thought them the most beautiful of all creatures, we should know...
How Long Does It Take To Train a Horse?
I have a herd of relatively normal retired horses. And then this gang of raconteurs, misanthropes, and dangerous characters, referred...
Human Failings, Horses, And Judgment
A four-year-old video surfaced this week and a dressage rider deeply apologized for the overuse of a whip. She will...
How Affirmative Training Was Born.
I am not a bliss-ninny. Loitering in denial doesn't work for me. I'm a blunt truth-teller who doesn't enjoy being...
Calming Signals: Another Word for Dominant
There is a wild stallion on the ridge fighting all comers for his harem of mares. We think aggression and...
The Arrogance of Training Animals Silly Tricks.
Do you follow the Iditarod, too? Northern breeds are such athletes with their instincts on full display. These half-wild dogs...
Allowing Horses the Time to be Curious
I saw a video this week that I can't get out of my head. It lacked the drama of the...
Interior Design: Do It for Your Horse
Imagine your brain is a room. Stand in the middle and slowly turn to take it in. Would it be...
Are We Over-training Our Horses?
My Grandfather Horse was so good with latches he could have broken out of Alcatraz and made it back to...
Nube: Dark Clouds and Questions With No Answers
Nube (Nu-bay) was particular. He required my undivided attention in the saddle and on the ground. My focus had to...
Trainer Love: In Memory of Seri
Seri died this week. She was never my horse, but she is part of the trainer I've become. Seri was...
Nube’s Ulcers: What We Can’t Control and What We Can.
When Nube (nu-bay) was two and first diagnosed with ulcers, it felt rare, almost exotic. People were just learning about...
Culture Wars in the Barn
There is a recent article in the NYT about the culture wars going on in dog training that's worth reading....
Horse Training Means Affirmative Waiting
Humans, aren't we swell? Compared to horses, we have dim, frail senses, we're seven times slower in our response time,...
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