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My path together with my stallion Mamba and a voice for all horses, promoting a different way to live them away from the human exploitation: valuing them just for the life companions they can become and not for what they can be used for ❣️

To me there's just no greater sense of accomplishment than taking away the fear or anger of a scared and angry horse and...
25/06/2025

To me there's just no greater sense of accomplishment than taking away the fear or anger of a scared and angry horse and turning those negative experiences into new feelings of safety, relaxation and trust.
No sporting accomplishment, no ribbon or award can ever match this unmatchable feeling of assisting our horses to heal their past trauma, step by step becoming friends together to share a very exclusive bond...
I'm sure that many of us here do agree about this 💗

So beautiful 💗
25/06/2025

So beautiful 💗

There will be times in life when you find yourself sitting with a horse at sun up.

Where tears can flow freely...

A heart can mend gently..

And life lessons be taken in solitude.

There will be a horse who feels every tear...

Regulates their own heartbeat to heal yours..

And whose warm breath will fill the depths of your soul.

A silent conversation that will bring you...

Clarity.

Hope.

And strength.

When the road becomes a little bumpy..

Go sit with a horse...

Listen to the silence..

Heal🌿

Jo Harmer



So important to always keep in mind...Picture source: Veterinary Anatomy World
25/06/2025

So important to always keep in mind...

Picture source: Veterinary Anatomy World

25/06/2025

Ever heard of the 3-Second-Rule ?

When a horse does something—like stepping forward, backing up, or responding to a cue—their brain instantly begins processing whether that action was worth repeating. This is called associative learning: the brain links a behavior with what follows it (either a reward, release of pressure, or a correction).

But this link isn’t open forever. It has a short window—and that’s where the 3-second rule comes in.

The horse’s limbic system, especially the amygdala and hippocampus, plays a key role in memory and emotion.
When something happens, the brain decides if it’s important by how quickly the result (good or bad) follows. Neurotransmitters like dopamine (which drives reward-based learning) are released immediately after the stimulus.
If the reward or release happens within about 3 seconds, dopamine strengthens the memory link between the action and the outcome.
If you wait longer, the brain may no longer connect the two.

👉 Example: If you're asking your horse to back up, don’t wait until they’ve taken 10 steps before releasing the pressure. If they shift their weight back or take just one step—that’s your moment. Release right then. That first effort is what you want to mark and reinforce. Otherwise, they may not know what they're being rewarded for.

It also works the other way around: it helps to give horses space between cues to not connect one cue with the other.

👉 Example: If you ask your horse to come to the mounting block and immediately swing your leg over, they may learn that coming over always means being mounted—which could make them hesitant to come in the first place. Instead, pause for 3 seconds after they line up. Let them reset. Then get on.

These moments of pause and precise timing are small adjustments—but they make a big difference. You create clarity, reduce stress, and build confidence in your horse. The 3-second rule isn’t just a training technique—it’s a reflection of how your horse’s brain learns best.

Try it. Wait just a little longer. Reward just a little sooner. You might be surprised how much faster they understand when their brain has the chance to catch up.

Photo: Alicia Nicole Wopereis Photography

Similarities 😁Picture source unknown
25/06/2025

Similarities 😁

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There is no such a thing as "bombproof horses", if we want these horses to remain...just horses, that is to say naturall...
25/06/2025

There is no such a thing as "bombproof horses", if we want these horses to remain...just horses, that is to say naturally reactive prey animals who instinctively tend to remain always alert, with this being a fundamental trait of their species specific needs in order to survive.
Consequently, horses being truly horses will always notice and be careful about any new stimuli or potential threat to their animal mind: yes, they can surely learn to calmly investigate it instead of simply reacting, but they will always remain alert and they just won't tolerate what is simply too much for the mind and instincts of a prey animal.
So, horses not reacting at all instead to anything, no matter what and no matter how, are simply completely shut off because of the learned helplessness: by the use of forceful training methods like Flooding, they simply learned to have no escape at all from whatever they may have to endure, they learned to have no way to avoid it and so they finally end by passively accepting anything without reacting.
But not because they aren't scared or bothered by it anymore, but just because they know to have absolutely no choice...
Well, surely not something to be ever proud of, reducing horses to become just some sort of programmed robots without any autonomy and real life left in them 💔

Picture credit: Fed Up Fred

25/06/2025

𝐋𝐞𝐭’𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐬…

Part One.

Horses can use calming signals to calm themselves, they might also use calming signals to calm someone else, like a person or another horse.
In the wild horses survive on co-operation not competition and this is where their social skills like calming signals come into play, so it’s important we pay attention to them.

The issue we have as humans is the signs of calming signals can mean multiple things, so we need to make sure we are looking at the “bigger picture” or the whole body to help us.

𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐮𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬.

It’s a difficult subject to inform people on, because calming signals can be a sign of a horse experiencing stress or a horse relieving stress.
It’s down to our intuition to make that call, for example if your working with a horse and he’s showing multiple calming signals, like shaking his head, turning his head away from you, blinking rapidly, rubbing his head on his fore leg then that’s probably a sign to back off and realise that today isn’t the day to push that horse further.

Calming signals can also be a sign of a horse “preparing himself” for stress, say there’s a new object your horse hasn’t seen 9 times out of 10 horses will go to investigate the new object because they are naturally curious, but have you noticed they often investigate the new object by looking at it side on, or they’ll make a big circle around the new object. This is the horse saying “hmm I’m interested in this, but I’m giving myself space because it could potentially be stressful”.

Another calming signal I see my own ponies do is “making yourself small” for example when the vet comes, Blue will often hide at the back of her stable in the corner. With her head lower, in hopes that if she “makes herself small” she can avoid the stressful situation, it’s also a way for them to detach from the stressful situation.

𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐝, when a horse is showing calming signals we can mimic them as a gesture of acknowledgement. For example if your horse yawns, you can yawn, if your horse signs/breathes out you can sign/breathe out.

I often see people getting offended when their horses turns its head away, when they are working with them. Humans often take this as disrespectful as if the horse isn’t paying attention, we then proceed to encourage the horse to look at us straight on so we feel they are paying attention. This is actually extremely disrespectful in their language, and turning their head is actually the respectful thing to do.

When horses freeze we often think of this as the horse is “shutting down”, but in fact this is too a calming signal and one we shouldn’t ignore. We have been taught to not allow the horse to “freeze” but it’s important we do allow him to freeze, even for a few minutes this will help him regulate his own nervous system.

Studies have shown that when horses display calming signals and we ignore them, or don’t know that they are doing them, that the horse can actually stop doing them all together even in the herd! Which you can imagine can be extremely dangerous and chaotic.

𝐖𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡, 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡, 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝, 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦.

𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐝𝐬? 𝐎𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐤𝐢𝐝𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬… 𝐈 𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 “𝟓-𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤” 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐭𝐨𝐨. 𝐒𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞… 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤!

Written By - The Fearful Rider

Art Work By - Dorota Kudyba Art




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25/06/2025

🌾✨ Trust your intuition and be your true compassionate self with your horses. If something doesn’t feel right, it probably isn’t.

When I was a little girl, I loved hanging around the horses on our family farm. One day, the barn staff struggled to catch a mare, and I looked up at my grandfather and said, "Oupa, she just wants to be free."

As I started competing and being exposed to the traditional horse world, I began losing sight of who I truly was. I like to think of myself as a kind, empathetic, and compassionate soul, but in that environment, it was difficult to be authentic and treat horses the way I believed they should be treated.

It takes bravery to be kind and to stay true to ourselves, but our horses deserve nothing less. 🐴❤️

Have you ever felt the pressure to conform in the horse world? How do you stay true to yourself and your beliefs with your horses? Share your stories below! 👇

25/06/2025

An important reminder with the temperatures this week.

Does your horse go outside during the day? That’s awesome! What a wonderful weather it is! At least we think, under the parasol with sunglasses and a cool drink.

But horses are not made to soar in the sun.

In fact, they are originally from a cold climate and better cope with the cold than the heat.

Horses do not want and should not be in the full burning sun. Not even for just a few hours.

Alone in an 8x8 paddock outside is certainly better than in a 3x3 dark stable - but it is a burden when there is little to do and there is no shade to hide from the sun.

Like any other animal, a horse chooses shade and rest in the midday sun and we as responsible owners have to take that into account.

The best option is a large, varied meadow with trees and shelters where the horses are allowed to rest and graze in a group. And where fresh water is present at all times.

Overheating is a problem to be taken seriously, also in the Netherlands!

Unfortunately, I still see it far too often, along the roads, horses in small pastures or paddocks without shade. Please take this seriously! Sharing is appreciated because we do it for the horses 🐴❤️

Yes...each horse is beautifully unique 🧡Picture credit: Horse Tricks 101
24/06/2025

Yes...each horse is beautifully unique 🧡

Picture credit: Horse Tricks 101

His name was Fawley Buissonay.He was 11 years old.He died today during a harness race in Italy.Another victim of the hum...
24/06/2025

His name was Fawley Buissonay.
He was 11 years old.
He died today during a harness race in Italy.
Another victim of the human ego and greed.
Yes, it happens continuously, but I just can't ever get used to it 💔

Mamba's grandson...growing beautifully 🥰
24/06/2025

Mamba's grandson...growing beautifully 🥰

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