When I Met You.
Welcome to the Rocky Mountain Horse Expo. Let me start by saying it was never my fantasy to spend a...
Carrots Aren't Enough.
We've had a lot of company at the farm lately. Sometimes I take them into the family pen. The Grandfather...
Anthropomorphic Thoughts About Spaying Mares.
He said we don't need to import sport horses; we have great horses right here; we're under-using great mares. More...
Natural Instinct: The Human Half
The more we riders understand about horse instinct, the better. Instinct is the starting place; a behavioral baseline from which...
Behavior, Personality, and Anxiety.
Can you tell the difference between personality, who a horse is, and behavior, what a horse does? With people it...
Buying the Right to Make a Correction.
She's Tomboy. I don't write about her often enough; she's a little more serious than my corgi men. She's a...
The Long Goodbye: Meet Vinnie
It makes perfect sense to tell the story of an off-the-track Thoroughbred in the midst of the Triple Crown frenzy--with...
Listen First, Train Later.
Photo by Patrick McMahan The first time I met him, he was two months old standing...
It’s a Riding Lesson- What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Photo: J.J. Fierro. It starts innocently enough, just like every other thing that happens around horses....
Couples Therapy or Horse Agility?
You both show up at the appointed hour. One of you is more enthusiastic, the other one is second guessing...
Humor Deficit Disorder: Serious Riders and Stoic Horses.
"Seriously, you are no fun at all. I hate to say it, you're my human, but really, lighten up!" Humor...
Beware: Colic Season.
She was lying flat- eyes closed, flank tense and very quiet. As I got closer I could see lots of...
Do you think it’s time to clean the truck?
My hay guy got a new truck- a pristine dually in a pearlized-platinum color, with near Porsche-like lines. That big...
I notice that no one is asking me for beauty tips.
I have been blogging along for a couple of years now and I notice that no one is asking me...
A Lesson in Change.
The head of the herd at Infinity Farm is the kind of horse you might call Grandfather- with reverence. He...
Horse Cruelty, Ignored.
Anna Sewell authored Black Beauty in 1877. She wrote the book to educate about animal cruelty and promote a more...
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