The hardest thing in training any animal, to change, or encourage a behaviour is the human bias of what we feel about the behaviour. But...

“But I didn’t do that exercise? Why didn’t you tell me to do that??” Your horse, under the expectations you place on it, doesn’t need...

Horses show strong indicators of being predominant in forelimb directional influence - therefore, the forelegs tend to define the...

Commonly misunderstood ’trained expressions of flight’ used in the corrective approach to overwhelming, or overshadowing fear responses...

The more a particular stimulus leads to a predictable outcome, the more likely cognitive relaxation (reduced mental & physical load) will...

When Rosie came to me, & we began to unwrap what she had trained herself in over her first 4 1/2 years of life - there were 2 distinct...

Agency is to have a physiological & cognitive sense of predictability & control over ones experience. This can be developed extrinsically...

Dr. Katrina Merkies, researcher and associate professor at the University of Guelph, and her master student Haley Belliveau haver...

The horse as a quadruped has a slightly different way of managing movement patterns to humans. This also pairs, with the horses very...

#BiologyMatters Not only does the horse have a larger comparatively sized amygdala than most mammals, that predominates it to have a...

Relaxation installation. I think one of the easiest trends to fall into with horse training is falling into the philosophy of the...

A horse cannot master, learn & develop complex movement patterns from only attempting & repeating the movement pattern. When we...

Licking, chewing, mouthing, yawning..... what does it mean? Is it what we must aim for? is that what we reward? is that when we remove...

We must be clear here. Horses don’t do anything to just simply be difficult. They do it because the stimulus they are experiencing, or...

I have to share something that feels like a confession. What feels like a fraudulent guise that I have just found peace with… after years...

As a Horse rider, horse driver or horse handler our role is well defined. We must know what we want & what the horse can achieve. Then we...

I’m sick of silence on this. I am so so so sick of seeing horses broken both physically, and mentally by breakers/starters/trainers, then...

Well, Yes I guess so …. #equestrian #horseriding

All you are ‘required’ to do is provide for your horses needs. Page link: https://www.facebook.com/hiddencreekeq Post link:...

“Clear is kind, unclear is unkind. Most of us avoid clarity, because we tell ourselves that we are being kind. When actually doing this...