Rewards Instead Of punishment
In the horse world, peoples biggest mistake when trying to teach their horse something new, is usually forgetting to reward. We ask for a step. The horse gives the step!…
Read moreBridleless
Riding without a bridle is not the huge difficult undertaking that many people make it out to be. It is a simple, safe, practice that anyone can and should experiment…
Read moreTreat Manners
Everyone knows that hand feeding horses teaches them to bite! This is one of my favorite subjects. How is it possible that something that can teach manners and establish healthy…
Read moreBeyond The Dummy
Rusty has been practicing on the dummy. He decided that after all that hard work he was ready to try the real thing. He missed his loop but don’t we…
Read moreMore Colors
We’ve gotten to work a couple of times on our colors. Rusty is good but not great at choosing the right color when asked. He is getting very good at…
Read moreMatching Colors
I’ve been playing a lot with Ghost. Rusty hasn’t been ignored though! He knows his colors. Now were working on matching those colors. Starting with blue. Once can consistently match…
Read moreTricks
Why bother teaching a bunch of ‘silly tricks’? Isn’t it more important to teach the important thing? Shouldn’t our horses know how to lead, to ride, things that matter before…
Read moreStanding Quietly
A little bit of nothingness. Nothing is important. We all should be spending more time doing exactly nothing. Most of the time we spend with horses we are asking them…
Read moreSpooktober
It is spooktober and horses are known for spooking. They can train us to live in fear of provoking their fear. They train people not to try to ride if…
Read moreHalloween Horrors
It’s almost Halloween 🎃 There are so many scary stories involving horse training, I thought it would be fun to share some of them. Like horsey Halloween ghost stories. 👻…
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