At clinics, I sometimes get asked what is the one thing that a person needs to learn to get along better with their horse or to have their horse perform better. My answer used to always depend on the person asking the question.
Recently we have had to say goodbye to a couple of our most cherished animals. It's something we all face at some time in our life. I don't know of any animal owner/lover who escapes this heart-wrenching experience. These are my thoughts on the subject.
Albert Einstein once said there are children in the playground today that could solve some of physics' biggest problems. Wouldn’t it be great if the next generation of horse people broke through the dormancy of today’s thinking?
I received an email from someone asking for suggestions on keeping her horse's attention. They said they deliberately keep their session to only a few minutes because their horse can't focus for more than a 5-10mins.
There is a lot of mainstream training that is purposefully designed to make a horse hate work. It is derived from the old adage of “make the right thing easy and the wrong thing difficult.”
I’m going to talk a little about cleaning the sheath of stallions or geldings. I don’t relish discussing this topic, but I keep coming across people who believe it is an important part of horse husbandry.
