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Calming Signals and Equine Stress

From a reader: What I am learning from you, Anna, is helpful as I work to understand the horse. What...
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Calming Signals and Sensitive Noses.

"But My Horse Asks Me to Maul His Nose." I had questions about my loudmouth party-pooper post last week where I...
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Calming Signals and Loving Your Horse

On any ordinary day of any year, we get so filled with emotion talking about a ghost horse that our...
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Always Begging for Hay

Horses eat like a horse. They're designed to graze most of the day. I think horses worry about their next...
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Battlecry of the Gray Mare

Sun's up, I've thrown hay, and now I'm in the shower. My second-best thinking happens here because there's a window...
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Photo & Poem: Sanctuary

Moving like a newborn, narrow body swaying on spindly legs, but stumbling on hooves so long that you must push...
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Photo & Poem: Say Her Name

  As you say her name, your voice drops deep, a tight raspy croak. Not haunted with loss, but shaken...
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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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Riders Against Bullies

Railbirds. Everyone's a critic. I'm no fun anymore. I can't go to rodeos, a tradition I...
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Travel Blog: Where the Trail Leads…

  I know people who read cookbooks like they're high-drama best sellers. I know people who fantasize wild lives of...
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