How do we communicate with our horses in an effective way? How do we maintain our compassion and patience when our horse seems to care less that we love them, or reacts in dangerous ways when we only want...
I think we can all agree that communication between one another, human to human is complicated right?Now add inter-species communication, human to horse, we quickly discover our good intentions are not...
“I am afraid my wife won’t come home one day from the barn. I just want her to get rid of that dangerous horse,” Wendy’s husband said to me as he pulled me aside. “I’ll do everything I can to help,” I...
I think we can all agree that communication is complicated and when you add inter-species, human to horse, we soon discover our good intentions are not enough to be safe around a 1,000-pound animal. The...
I hear this all the time “if you are soft and gentle with your horse he’ll walk all over you” or “you are too wimpy with your horses, they won’t respect you.” I understand the good intentions behind these...
Credit: Thinkstock Anthropomorphizing isn’t a bad thing, it is actually what we do when we are training and working with our horses.
The word anthropomorphizing is a popular term used in warnings to horse...
