When Horses Ask For Help
She is a woman of a certain age. A retired wildlife biologist who wears Crocs when weather permits, and muck...
Calming Signals and Playing Poker with Horses.
I can't remember my age when I first saw Dogs Playing Poker, the famous painting by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge. It...
Count to Three and Jump… It’s a New Year
It's the week between Christmas and New Years. And call it a holiday tradition, but I have no idea what...
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...
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...
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...
Deconstructing Horse Aggression
When I got home after school, I walked in the front door, dropped my books, and walked out the back...
The Home Barn and Separation Anxiety
May I brag? I have that strange career where I travel a lot, see beautiful country as a routine part...
Nube: Undiagnosable
I hope I'm not going to end up writing some kind of justification for harsh training. Usually, it's easier than...
The Joy of Imperfection
We are sick to death of the violence against horses. It isn't just the damage caused by rollkur in reining...
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: More Dark Clouds and Questions With No Answers
The worst thing about remembering a horse in the past is that maybe there are current options that your horse...
How To Buy a Horse
He was a bay gelding in his teens when we met. A Quarter Horse with a bit of a downhill...
Edgar Rice Burro. All He is Saying is Give Peace A Chance.
Yet another horse trainer got tarred and feathered on social media this week. It happens all the time. People jumped...
What It Means to Love a Horse
I'm talking to a new client who contacted me for help, asking them to tell me about their horse. They...
Famous Cruelty, Ordinary Cruelty, and an Affirmative Solution
Another story of cruelty hit the international press last week. Operation X documented horrors happening in a well-known Danish...
Horses and Chimpanzees, Or Why Horses Aren’t Cuddlers
When I first moved to my farm, I pretended to be Jane Goodall. My land was a high desert...
Horses Measuring Intelligence in Humans
It's my fault for asking for blog topics. She writes, "Can you possibly do a blog post on why your...
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