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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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