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Calming Signals: In Honor of a Truck Dog

It's Corgi tufting season. I gather enough hair in my mouth to build a bird's nest hourly. It's effortless, but...
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Horsewomen and the Reverse Banana Peel Approach

Do you ever just stop in your tracks, look at your (insert your choice: horse, dog, child) and go blank?...
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How To Become a Horse Whisperer

In fifth grade, they pulled us out of class for hearing tests. They clamped skinny black headphones on us and...
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A Problem with the Word “Connection”

I feel it in my bones like a rusty joint before a rainstorm. An itch that flopping around in a...
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How the Farm Says Thank You. (Audio)

Happy Thanksgiving from Infinity Farm and The Gray Mare Podcast.
... Relaxed and Forward Training by Anna Blake...
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Calming Signals: Haunted by a Black Cat in a Pink Dress.

I was taking the trash out to the dumpster in the alley. As I reached the back gate, I saw...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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Deconstructing Horse Aggression

When I got home after school, I walked in the front door, dropped my books, and walked out the back...
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