Happy Habits
Abraham Lincoln is credited with saying that people are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. That sounds simple enough. People suffering from depression will tell…
Read moreMy New Bitless!
So many new things recently. I’ve been looking at and thinking about bitless bridles for awhile now. Not because I have anything against bits. I love mine and think that…
Read moreLearning The Ropes
I realized I haven’t shared Rusty’s first encounter with a rope on his page! It wasn’t dramatic, just an interesting example of letting a horse say when they are worried…
Read moreRoping Horse
Rusty and I have been working on getting him over his fear of ropes. I guess I didn’t share that video here. He had no interest in being around a…
Read moreStimulus Control?
With clicker training the first thing we usually have to do is convince our horses that we want them to think for themselves. We take horses who have been trained…
Read moreBalloons
Bit Choices
We went on a little family vacation the other day. While we were in the big city we stopped at a tack store. We live in the boondocks. Out here…
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