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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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