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Rope Halter Follow-up: They May Knot Be Natural, But They DO Have Their Fans

Yesterday I received a very long and thoughtful email response to my recent rope halter face-off article, up at Horse City; it was from someone who was obviously very much a believer in natural horsemanship and rope halters. I think he was sincerely trying to get me to see the error of my ways and [...]

My Evolution Of Horse Knowledge: Top Ten Teachers

My early days with Sage; ah, we have come so far, yet have so far to go.

Knowledge is power. It has also seemed more of an evolutionary thing than an educational one. For example, knowledge sometimes seems to be a moving target when it comes to my horse – having just seemingly figured things [...]

Maybe We Need Wrigleys Gum For Horses

Sage herself, grazing

Results of a new study published this month in Veterinary Clinics of North America: Equine Practice show that horses need to chew. Didn’t we already know that? At least with data coming out like this on a regular basis, perhaps eventually we will start to see a positive change in how horses [...]

Eight Belles Toll For Thee, part III and conclusion

A lot of animal injustice is done in ignorance, but today with all of the information available so readily in books and on the internet there is no excuse for ignorance. I started out ignorant, getting back into horses in my adult life but with the concepts and ideas that had been formed in my [...]

Eight Belles Toll For Thee, part II

Of course, there are other kinds of sporting events with horses that have their fair share of crippled horses and abuses, and hopefully there will be an outcry in support of Eight Belles that will trickle over into those areas (ok, I am hoping for a gush but a trickle is better than nothing). And [...]

Eight Belles Toll For Thee, part I

So I wrote this article today…something to do with horse racing and animal injustices…and I am going to post a little of it here each day until I am done. Maybe it was Eight Belles speaking to me to write it for her, but whatever it was I felt compelled, so here goes:

“No man is [...]