Diamond In The Rough … even so, a having a horse is still a LOT of work and it can be frustrating when you live far from the barn. Often I’d get to the barn only to realize that I’d forgotten something and, with no quick run home to get it, I was stuck. So […]
Horse Week This coming week – October 9-15 – is ‘Horse Week.’ Brought to you by Boehringer Ingelheim and Equine Network LLC, Horse Week is an equine-centric digital festival which bings together equine associations and companies for one singular cause: the celebration of the horse. Sign up for the Horse Week Newsletter and stream it
We interrupt this Blog to bring you an announcement Read More »
It was a cold & windy night…. A typical March evening out in the country. Accompanied by a friend, who was an excellent rider and knew horses very well, we were driving to look at a horse. She talked about how she was looking for ‘a diamond in the rough’ for us – a backyard
A Horse in a Million Read More »
Are You REALLY Listening? Interesting how when you rely on people for advice it’s a crapshoot. Sometimes it works out and other times not so much. But when it does work out it can be amazing. Twenty three years ago, looking for a first, horse my sister and I enlisted the help of a family
Human-Human Communication Read More »
Yes, Virginia, there is…. I’ve said my mare recently let me know how she felt when her foals were taken from her. This brings up the question: Do you believe a horse can clearly communicate telepathically with a human? Unlike Santa Clause, ‘Animal Communicators’ and psychics who can connect with horses DO exist. In fact,
Horse-Human Communication Read More »
Living Far From the Barn While I know many horse owners don’t keep their horse(s) on their own property I’ve always assumed most of the rest live in, or close to, ‘horse country’ where they board. In a perfect world I’d be able to walk out my backdoor to visit my horse, but alas, city
Having An ‘Off-Site’ Horse Read More »
Do You Believe Horses Have “Rights”? [Click the link above to comment] Thinking about equine welfare – the ‘Freedoms’ that horses deserve stated in the last post – lead me to wondering if people believe that horses have ‘rights.’ ie. the right to be treated humanely? Dictionary.com defines humane as characterized by tenderness,
Do Horses Have “Rights”? Read More »
Do The Five Freedoms Cover It All? Recently I read an on-line article “The Five Freedoms and Equine Welfare” by Dale Rudin https://www.horseillustrated.com/five-freedoms-and-equine-welfare Rudin begins “Most of us have pondered whether our horse has a life he enjoys. Is there any way to find out?” and says “yes.”He then describes the British Farm Animal Council standard
The Five Freedoms & Equine Welfare Read More »
Unfortunately I was not born into the ‘Horse World’ I can’t remember a time that I didn’t love horses, dreanming that one day I would own one. But as a city-bound kid, confined to an urban world, I knew that wasn’t going to happen. So I fed my equine fantasy reading Jane Marshall Dillon’s “School