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Rebel horse care

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Rebel horse care

Everything is connected. Environment, hoof care, gentle training and balanced, bitless riding. Working for better horse welfare through education.

Based in Catalonia Spain.

03/10/2025

Learning to be calm, relaxed, attentive and present during hoof trimming, is one of the fundamental skills that any horse should have.

Most horses are going to need their hooves trimmed regularly for all of their life, and yet being able to stand quiet and be ok with having the legs and hooves handled, is a skill many horses have not learnt.

In my professional work as a hoof care provider I have come across horses from many different disciplines who had impressive careers as competition or pleasure horses, and yet they could not stand still for trimming.
This tells me that there is a crack in the foundation of the training of these horses, or maybe many cracks.

I never blame the horse, and do what I can to help them learn, but it wears on my body, and it really shouldn’t be the trimmer or farriers job to teach the horses to be ok with hoof care.

If you have a breach in the training foundation or maybe just haven’t built a foundation yet with your horse, maybe I can help you.
I offer online classes in foundational horse training built on kind, gentle, calm, clear and consistent communication. 😊

02/10/2025

Farewell amazing soul ❤️

28/09/2025

Hoof abscesses can almost always be solved with soaking.
Soaking the hoof in warm soap water causes the hoof capsule to expand slightly and softens the coronary band, making it easier for the abscess to move inside the hoof capsule and find a place to break out.

Depending on where the abscess is located inside the hoof capsule, it will travel up to the coronary band above the toe, quarter or heel.
Once it opens up, the puss can come out and the pain and lameness quickly resides.
I always keep soaking for a few more days after the abscess has broken open, to be sure to get all the puss out and that the wound doesn’t close too soon.

Abscesses can be caused by bacteria entering into the corium through tiny cracks in a weak white line, because of inflammation in the lamina due to laminitis, because of a severe bruising of a thin sole, because of a foreign object penetrating the hoof capsule, in the healing process after shoe removal and sometimes they occur in fairly healthy hooves and it can be hard to figure out what caused them.

I believe sometimes they happen simply as a cleansing out of waste products in the system.

24/09/2025

This is what it can look like when your horse needs a foot soaked because of an abscess.

When we have built a foundation of trust, mutual respect and care with our horse, things like soaking a hoof becomes less of a big deal.

I don’t need to have a whole lot of preparation practice in this particular situation to have a communication of calm understanding between us.

We have a general language that works in our every day life together and Caroline knows the language of positive reinforcement, so I can apply it in this situation too and she quickly understands that I would like her to keep the foot in the bucket.

After a little while she feels the relief of pressure in the hoof from the warm water, and that then becomes rewarding in itself.
She relaxes into it and almost dozes off.

And yes I’m aware that these kinds of situations are not always easy peasy, but having created a solid foundation of communication that both parties understand and feel calm and confident about, truly helps in any situation.

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16/08/2025

My friend’s horse Kathy has now been here for one and a half month.
I already see quite remarkable changes happening in her hooves.

She came from a place where she lived a good life in a paddock with other horses, but she did not have much motivation to move and she spent a lot of time standing still, eating from a big hay feeding station.

Here on the farm she lives in a track system with many small hay nets spread out around the track, and with many twists and turns and hills up and down.
She moves a lot more now and she gets part of her hay in hay nets and part of it loose on the ground.

When she arrived here, she was very foot sensitive and had thin soles.
I know this is not from incorrect trimming as I have been her trimmer for several years.
She had boots on-off in the first few weeks she was here and then she started walking better.
Her soles are still thin, but getting stronger with the extra movement.

The lighting is different in the photos, but I think you can still appreciate the changes happening in this hoof with only 3 weeks between the shots.
All photos are after trimming.

A proper diet, sufficient movement, a calm life in a herd with other horses, a stimulating and movement motivating environment and frequent, good hoof care is setting these hooves on a path of healing.

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