RELAXED AND FORWARD: Since 2010, an archive of weekly horse training essays. My dogs say it's their turn now. Happy to oblige, it's all affirmative. Including words from a gray mare on the fine art of aging cantankerously.

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Jolene Goes to Work

We just got back from a clinic in Wyoming, a place where the weather controls the landscape and there are...
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Trailer Training Jolene

We are camping in the yard lately. Did you do it when you were a kid? I'm hooked. Evenings are...
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Bitey-Face and the Secret Passageway

We turn into the driveway and the umpire flings his arms wide and yells, "Safe!" It's the feeling I get...
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Jolene. Jolene. Jolene. JOLEEENE!

Sometimes, change sneaks up behind you when you least expect it, knocks you down, and drags you off, kicking and...
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Do Companion Animals Get Compassion Fatigue?

Lately, I've been worried about fluffy little lap dogs whose coat has gone oily and flat from excessive petting. Concerned...
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Reactive Dogs and Affirmative Peer Pressure

    Ruby Pearl and Preacher Man Ruby lives with my friend, Lara. We both have...
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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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Halloween: Twenty-Five Years on This Farm

It's a special day here on Infinity Farm. I signed loan papers on this property on the last day of...
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Can You Afford a Pet?

I never thought I'd say this. Me, of all people. But do you ever think we might need some balance...
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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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