If Offered Freedom, Will My Horses Come Back
The first time I turned our horses out into the grass pastures at our Texas ranch I wondered, “Will they come back?“ Most of the relationship (training) work I do with horses is at liberty, meaning they don’t have to participate if they don’t want to. I want to earn a horse’s attention and deserve […]
Horse Frustration – Turning Sour Rides into Lemonade
Sometimes a horse’s honesty is hard to deal with, especially when the message is that my teaching ability stinks like 3-day-old fish. It’s easy to feel like a failure, or worse, blame the horse for a less-than stellar lesson. That was yesterday, one fabulous lesson followed by two sour puckerish rides. It was tempting to […]