Rescuing Rusty

I love Readers Digest, there is always some gem to be found in there. In this months it was an article talking about pets and what they are trying to…

Those single whorl horses. They have an amazing reputation in the horse whorld. Steady, dependable, unchanging. They are the unicorn of whorls. Yes, this is mostly deserved. It’s entirely possible…

When we are looking at horses, to buy, to choose for a particular discipline, looking at the whorls first can save a lot of heartbreak in the long run. There…

They have a bad reputation. Watch out for those double whorls. Nothing but trouble. Said to have double personalities, wildly swinging mood changes. Jekyll and Hyde temperament. Avoid them when…

Why would looking at whorls on a horses head or body be able to give us any information about the horse? It seems silly doesn’t it. Why do we bother…

Some whorls come with very specific ‘meanings’. The S shaped feathering is one of those. When a horse has feathering on their forehead that twists and turns, sometimes in the…

This horse has a high center whorl. That shows an extrovert. Extroverts are very invested in the external world, everything going on around them. They want to go, to be…

There are so many parts of the horses head that give us clues to their temperaments. The chin and lips are some of these. They are unique from things like…

All horses have them. A feathered whorl down each side of the chest above the front legs. Usually the pectoral whorls are even. either both reaching high into the chest…