Rescuing Rusty

“If we spend too much time in the planning phase we wire neurons in our brain that then cause us trouble when the unexpected happens”.  ~Wally Olsen It is a…

I usually ride with a pretty loose cinch. It gets me in trouble sometimes. I’ve accidentally roped things. That I would ever actually catch something came as a shock to…

Threshold, in this case, refers to the level at which the horse becomes afraid. Keeping a horse well below threshold means they are never worried about anything. Getting a horse…

It started out the way so many situations do with our horses. Something is supposed to be easy. After we have already started, to far in to stop, the horse…

When I was a small child our horses spent their winters turned out in the corn fields. Now that would scare me half to death and I would never do…

Teaching and training are synonyms. Technically they mean the same thing. As with all synonyms the devil is in the details. The exact nuances implied by using different words can…

We had a rough horse day yesterday. Nothing awful but not great. My son loves his zippy little mare. She is great for him, putting up with his enthusiasm and…

I don’t know if you can tell in the video just how windy it was while we were trying to work. The gate in the background is banging and clanging.…

When we run into problems with our training we fall back to how good our foundation is. When we run into difficulty our mind doesn’t help us. Usually it does…