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.
Weekly Photo Challenge: On the Move
These two horses, these especially, love to play the run game. They are always on the move, curious and energetic....
Being Post-Mature in the Spring.
It's a Grandfather Spring. Those words don’t go together well, any more than watching elderly horses in the freshness...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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?...
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...
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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