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Calming Signals and Preacher Man: Still “Reactive” After All These Years

Bear with me, please. I miss my dogs, one in particular. I'm in Dunedin, and he's 12,620 km away. It...
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Photo & Poem: Horse Trailer Conversation

Horse Trailer Conversation She takes me from the herd, pulling me to the box. Her hand is thick, there is...
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Behavioral Euthanasia of Horses

  "Anna, do you have any articles that touch on behavioral euthanasia?" It's from a question about a rescue horse...
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Photo & Poem: Wild and Tame

  You’ve landed in a place you don’t belong, the cat let me know, as she howled at you on...
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Can a Horse Try Too Hard?

It was the first day of a Calming Signals clinic. I was talking to a group of people about leading...
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Photo & Poem: Known

Across the long diagonal to the west corner of the dry lot, he’s on the far side of the herd,...
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The Horse Trainer and the Dermatologist.

My gray mare calming signals included squinty eyes, a dry mouth, and a weird chicken-like movement with my neck and...
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Photo & Poem: Waiting Out the Storm

  Rusty coat, a spiky mane, and a spotted blanket, he would have been a firecracker of a colt, plain...
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Horses in Solitary.

This is my fence panel. I lost count of the other's just like it, eight, I think. I find them...
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