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Weekly Photo Challenge: Spring

It is spring, I hear, but it's hard to tell at this altitude. This high flat prairie is khaki tan...
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Horse Agility and Calming Signals.

It’s that time again. I fill a cart the dollar store and a glimpse in the rear view mirror while...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Letters

Letters: Most writers have stacks of paper on their desks, but I have stacks of cats. It's an element of...
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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....
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Weekly Photo Challenge: On Top

The thing about being both a rescue dog and a herding dog, is that you've already lost your herd once...
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Calming Signals: Are You Listening?

If you are standing next to your horse and he looks away, do you think he's distracted or even disrespectful?...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Monument

Humans build monuments to those we honor and respect. Simple love usually isn't enough for monument status; it has to...
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Training Confidence and Trust.

There's a way that a mare can pin her ears back so hard that they make almond-shaped divots on her...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Threshold

On this side, us. On that side, ducks with no clear direction, cats with bi-polar issues, large black dogs who...
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Dressage on a Rescue: Doing More with Less

Andante, ex-PMU, casts a giant shadow. I have a confession. I shop-lifted when I was in...
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