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Making War on Horses: Is it Leadership?

By reader request: "Horses need a dominant leader; you have to make him respect you." "You can't let him get away...
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Photo Challenge: Windows

  Has it been a year? Scanning the pasture from the kitchen sink, I don't see your swayed back. A...
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Escape the Death Spiral: Asking For a Step.

Let me begin by defining a death spiral. It's asking a horse to do something he just avoided, by circling...
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Photo Challenge: Layered

  It began with a word so small and unspoken that it waited in a bitter slick at the back...
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Sleeping With The Wrong Dog

Warning: This is not an upbeat rescue story. It's a sad story with a sad ending.  Proceed with caution. Or...
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Photo & Poem Challenge: Visiting Friends

We shared stories as we drove up the canyon road that angled between rocks, colored grape and copper and sienna;...
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Helmets: When Complacency and Experience are Killers.

"She had a helmet on and she still got hurt," the woman said. Well, sure. I take vitamins and I'm still...
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Photo Challenge & Poem: Waiting

The air goes still on the prairie during that instant when my finished inhale lifts gravity and just before the...
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How to be a Brilliant Conversationalist: Horse Version

You know how the cat magically goes to the person with the allergy? Or she goes the person who happens...
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Photo Challenge: Structure

  This horse covers the ground more quietly on four hooves than my old feet can manage, dynamic strides so...
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