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The Middle Path: Negotiating Care With Busy Professionals

My advice: Find someone who gets along with donkeys.   A question from two readers: "We...
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Light Leading: The Invisible Rope

  She was born on a full moon so I named my Iberian filly Claro De Luna. She was so...
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Meeting the Przewalski's Horse in Scotland

  Val and her son, Hulagu They're wild horses discovered by Nikolai Przewalski, a Polish-born colonel in the...
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A Natural Instinct to Dominate

I find it fascinating to watch children talking to animals. It's almost like studying mustangs. Kids are who we are,...
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The Middle Path: Lighten Up, It's All Your Fault

Sometimes people tell me that I'm preaching to the choir with my blog. That it's the other "really creepy horse...
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Photo Challenge & Poem: Prolific

  Pray his back is broad, strength needed for the precarious load he bears, the seesaw blessing and curse of a...
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Roo: Letting a Horse Be a Horse

I was doing what I do when I lay down at night; mentally taking the late night walk-through, tossing hay...
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Calming Signals and Pain

  First, last, and always, make sure your horse is sound.  That's the warning that any decent equine professional gives...
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The Middle Path: Why Gaits Matter

Let's say you like to jump and so does your Arabian. Let's say you do endurance on an Appaloosa. Let’s...
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Severe Weather Warning

It was 78 degrees yesterday. It's late October so the sun is lower in the sky. There was a slight...
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How to Relieve Your Horse's Anxiety

Growing up, only one person in our home was allowed to have a temper and the rest of us kept...
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Photo Challenge: Bridge

  The frail filament strands that suspend us in parallel travel are intricately woven back onto themselves, situated so cleverly...
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Running in Circles

 I was asked to write about lunging and I assume this means with no swear words. I don't know why...
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Calming Signals: YOUR Response.

Photo by Sheri Kerley I'll start with the bad news. For those of us who grew...
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Calming Signals and the Aggressive Horse.

Just to be clear, calming signals are not something humans do to calm horses. It's the language horses use to...
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Calming Signals: The Dance of the Halter

We're breaking in a new farrier here at Infinity Farm. The new guy is soft-spoken, uses a nice pink hoof-stand,...
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Equine Retirement Planning.

First, I watched Brentina's retirement ceremony. Then Secretariat's last race and Valegro's final Olympia freestyle. Who doesn't need to watch Aldrich's...
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Part Two: Norman, Is That You? (The Reactive Horse)

Last week, I wrote about horses who are The Strong Silent Type. This horse is the opposite. Describing him sounds...
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