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17/03/2025

Spring Management with Kelly from Horse Weighbridge North East

17/03/2025

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Join me and Kelly from Horse Weighbridge North East next Monday 17th March where we'll be talking all things spring management.

Spring can be a worrying time with changes in routine, laminitis and weight-gain worries and potential gut upsets. We'll be discussing common problems and giving you realistic ideas to solve them so you can keep your horses healthy and feeling happy.

Questions very welcome.

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17/03/2025

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This Wednesday 19th Durham area.

Equine behavioural consultant - kind, horse-centred training and support

Behaviour/ground work/ridden work/postural rehab

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17/03/2025

A really simple enrichment idea if you have access to hedgerow. I scatter small handfuls of their favourite hay at different heights for them to browse through and find.

Much more interesting than eating one big pile off the floor or from a haynet and encourages movement and different postures.

I can’t wait for the hedgerow to start turning green again 🌱🌻🐴

16/03/2025

"Dangerous" horses 🐴

There is a huge trend of trainers posting videos of them “fixing” horses with “dangerous” behaviour. It is often framed as “saving their life” to make the story extra juicy and the trainer extra heroic, and it makes great social media clickbait. Pair that with a thumbnail of said horse being pushed completely over threshold to show their “terrifying” behaviour and you have a marketing dream.

Unfortunately, a lot of the horses in the these videos are showing clear pain indicators, lameness, stiffness, weakness, muscle atrophy etc none of which are mentioned or addressed. The horses are often fearful and confused. The focus is purely on whatever perceived “dangerous” behaviour they want to get rid of and a fear-mongering explanation of how dangerous this behaviour will become if they do not use their methods to fix it immediately. Some go as far as telling clients that if they use more ethical methods they will make their horse even more dangerous.

Behaviour is communication, a horse putting their ears back is not aggression, a horse pushing on you is not aggression, a horse pawing with a front leg is not aggression, a horse being mouthy is not aggression. If your horse is pinning their ears at you, this is a communication, and if you listen and figure out what is wrong, it will not escalate into louder behaviour. If you look at a behaviour as a stand-alone thing a horse has randomly decided to do and you suppress it by punishing it, all you have done is shut down the only line of communication your horse has to tell you they aren’t okay. I promise you your horse isn’t out here trying to dominate you for a laugh, he is trying to explain.

If you ignore the quieter behaviour and continue to push a horse you will get these big, loud, scary behaviours. Then the trainer can say “a-ha look! I told you he was dangerous! We need to sort this out.” Good, quiet training is pretty dull to watch does not push the horse into bucking, rearing, bolting, kicking etc on purpose. Pushing a horse into an undesired behaviour just so you can punish it doesn’t sound very kind does it?

When we over-simplify behaviours by putting connotations like dominance or stubbornness onto them, we miss the bigger picture and end up creating horribly shut down horses that have horrible associations with humans. When you punish a horse for trying to communicate pain and fear to you, what do you think happens to that relationship? Imagine your horse has a weak, sore back and this is the cause of their behaviour. A trainer comes out and spins your horse in tight circles and backs them up harshly, this causes even more pain to your horse, but when they protest it is explained away as more dominant behaviour that needs to be worked out of them or else you’re creating a dangerous horse. Do you see the trap?

I am so tired of going to see desperately sad owners with traumatised horses from being trained like this when they were just trying to communicate pain or fear. Convincing a horse who has been not only ignored but actively punished for their communication to find relaxation and soften again around people is a long, slow process. And I am sad for both the horses and their lovely owners that they have been let down in this way, it is so unnecessary.

I think what pains me the most is I will be appalled at what I’m seeing in these videos, but the comments sections are full of praise for the kind, wonderful, horse-centred training they’ve just witnessed. I’m absolutely baffled, but the positive is clearly these people really care about horses and want to train kindly, they are just being fed misinformation about behaviour. I know because I used to think this training was kind too. It all comes down to education.

Just because someone says what they’re doing is kind, doesn’t make it true for the horse. Just because someone calls themselves a behavioural trainer doesn’t mean they actually study or acknowledge the behavioural science we have access to now. The best thing you can do is empower yourself with self study so you can recognise when the training isn’t quite matching up with the words. 🐴

Photo of my horse Lenny showing explosive behaviour in the round pen, he was described as bolshy, rude and dominant. Turns out he had pain in all 4 limbs, feet and his spine ☹️. He is now 20 years old, extremely gentle and enjoys clicker training at liberty with my novice dad.

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16/03/2025

I’ve started taking Dan back up to the arena more regularly after hibernating for winter. The horses get quite anxious going up to this arena as it is very open and there’s a lot to look at.

Horses can actually find wide open spaces and sight lines quite worrying as they feel the need to be vigilant in all directions.

We spend time doing low-key stuff like having a roll, walking around together and enrichment games to build positive associations with being in there.

The top end of the arena is particularly challenging for them so I’m just standing having a calm look out there with Dan. We have some pheasants hanging around that like to flap about. I let him look and assess instead of pestering him on and probably causing him to get more stressed and spook.

It was day 3 in the arena today and he was happy to walk around the whole arena both ways at a distance from me nice and relaxed 😎.

Taking your time to create positive associations for your horse is much more effective than getting into a battle with them to make them comply if you want a relaxed and willing partner. 🐴

14/03/2025

Spring Management 🌻🐴

While we are all looking forward to warmer, drier weather, spring can also be a very worrying time for horse owners. When you are concerned about laminitis and weight gain the start of spring may fill you with dread.

I meet many horses who are on heavily restricted diets for health reasons but often the recommended management is causing these horses to live chronically stressed and feeling hungry, which not only causes behavioural issues, but actually damages their health further.

We are often told that our only option is to keep our horse isolated, as they can’t go out onto grass with other horses, and told we should only give them a very restricted amount of forage. This is extremely stressful for a horse. I really do wonder about the link between chronic stress and high insulin levels in these horses who are extremely restricted yet never seem to make much improvement, their lives just get smaller and smaller until you feel like you’ve got nowhere to go.

I understand that not everyone has access to a perfect track-system style set up and I am also not advocating for just throwing food at your laminitic horse, but we do need to find a balance that also supports their emotional wellbeing and the rest of their body. What you often find is the weight and insulin levels improve too once the horse doesn’t feel so chronically stressed.

From a behavioural perspective I see so many overweight horses, who have very restricted access to forage, being described as bargey and disrespectful etc. These horses are chronically stressed and hungry and prime candidates for stomach ulcers. On top of their restricted forage intake they are often also expected to exercise hard on compromised bodies in an effort to help them lose weight, they are going to be sore.

Until we find a way of managing them that doesn’t leave them feeling this way they’re not going to feel relaxed and pleasant to be around. Instead of getting stronger halters and harsher training to teach them “respect”, we’re much better off addressing the actual problem, which is the management.

Just because your horse isn’t overweight or at risk from laminitis, doesn’t mean spring is all plain sailing. Another common spring issue is new grass upsetting horse’s guts. I often see horses with very green, sloppy droppings on summer turnout, these horses are not going to be comfortable and this is not healthy.

There are so many small management tweaks you can make that might make a really big difference to your horse’s overall healthy and wellbeing.

We will be discussing all of these topics and possible solutions in our free Facebook live with Kelly from Horse Weighbridge North East on Monday evening at 7pm. Sign up here: https://facebook.com/events/s/spring-management/1351446612652183/?

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13/03/2025

FREE LIVE SERIES 🐴

I'm starting up my free Facebook live series again just in time for spring.🌻

Join me and Kelly from Horse Weighbridge North East next Monday 17th March where we'll be talking all things spring management.

Spring can be a worrying time with changes in routine, laminitis and weight-gain worries and potential gut upsets. We'll be discussing common problems and giving you realistic ideas to solve them so you can keep your horses healthy and feeling happy.

Questions very welcome.

Sign up here: https://facebook.com/events/s/spring-management/1351446612652183/

10/03/2025

Fitness programs 🐴

I had a couple of comments on my “horses are not sports equipment” post asking for a guide on how to get your horse fit and unfortunately I can’t give you one. Let me explain why.

There are far too many factors to consider to even give a vague fitness plan. Their cardiovascular fitness is the least complicated part of it. For each individual horse we need to consider their bodies and any pain/discomfort/limitations they are carrying around with them. We need to think of their emotional health and their capacity to cope with the training scenarios we want to put them in. We need to think about their current musculature, hoof health and posture and whether its appropriate to ride them in their current state at all.

Here are some things to think about.

Emotional fitness. If your horse isn’t in a place emotionally to cope with the training you want to do his body isn’t going to be able to develop properly. If your horse is spending most of his time during a training session feeling anxious or bracing against you, you are simply going to be strengthening those unhelpful postures. Leaving your horse feeling more tense and negative about training which turns into an endless loop of nothing good.

We really love to feel like we’re “doing” stuff. We love our pole work, hill work or lateral work. Surely just walking in hand isn’t enough? I think about it like this. If your horse isn’t able to maintain a relaxed, healthy posture without bracing and compensating on flat ground at a walk, he definitely isn’t going to be able to maintain it with added difficulty like hills or poles.

It simply takes the time it takes and for some horses who have been carrying around their compensatory movement patterns for years and years, we are talking months not days and weeks to unravel this.

Now only when we have developed appropriate musculature over the back do I even think about adding a rider. And when we do, I’m talking 10 minutes at a time every other day and build from there. Not a 45 minute hack.

We (hopefully) wouldn’t add weight to an exercise when we couldn’t keep proper form just with our own body weight, so we can’t expect horses to be able to carry a rider healthily if they aren’t able to move well without one yet.

Then when we are riding we have to move away from riding in ways which damage our horses. The constant elephant in the room is that it’s still the industry norm to ride horses over bent with constant pressure down the reins and this is damaging horses. If you continue to ride and train under people who tell you to do this your horse is not going to last.

The best advice I can give you is to learn how to read behaviour and get a basic understanding of what healthy musculature and posture looks like. Then you’ll be able to make more informed choices on who you take advice from and also recognise when an exercise is inappropriate for your horse in his current state.

If you just want a horse to do what you want then I guess you can follow a 12 week program of cardiovascular fitness and it will get your horse fitter for sure. But if you care about his body, his emotional state, his comfort, his longevity and your relationship together we’ve got to go way deeper.

Most of my work with clients is heavily focused on improving their horse’s emotional state through management, learning about behaviour, learning about their bodies and changing how we train. Time and time again when we improve the horse’s emotional state we start to watch their bodies slowly unravel from all of that brace and tension they’ve been carrying around for years. Only then can we build them up to something strong and healthy. 🐴

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09/03/2025

Mystical morning before the sun breaks through ❤️

06/03/2025

Really good post, you hear this kind of dismissal a lot when you start getting better at reading equine behaviour.

It will feel like people are just over analyzing horse behaviour if you are operating from a place where you have been oversimplifying it.

People who are capable of noticing more nuance in horse behavior, and can thereby notice signs of stress or anxiety building earlier will seem like they are nitpicking when they point these things out.

But, people who oversimplify horse behaviour are far more likely to be caught off guard when horses react out of nowhere.

They are also more likely to miss earlier signs that can signal potential lameness and other health issues before they are a major issue.

If you have ever found yourself in the headspace where you feel like other people are nitpicking horse behavior, before you write off their perspective, as nothing, consider whether or not there’s a possibility you have been taught to oversimplify horse behavior.

I would argue. It’s more common than not to be taught a very cursory and primitive understanding of horse behavior.

Growing up, I wasn’t taught much past “ears back equals bad” and “ears forward equals happy”

When I was initially exposed to people who would notice signs of discomfort like repeated swishing, I was initially outraged, and felt as if they were being hypercritical.

In reality, they were just more adept at noticing signs than I was because they had either taken the initiative to learn or had been taught by a better mentor than I had.

Their knowledge felt threatening initially because it exposed the holes in my own knowledge.

Admitting that they might be right admitting that I knew an awful lot less than I had thought that I did.

It also meant exposing myself to the reality that there are signs of stress that horses show on a regular basis that would call me to question the morality of a lot of things that I had come to blindly accept.

Leaning into the denial is tempting because it offers a temporary comfort.

But the discomfort of knowing that there might be something off always remains in the pit of your stomach.

And the discomfort of that being present, but you never cautiously answering the questions that are being asked, is a lot more burdensome over the years than doing the hard work of reflecting and reevaluating.

Being more open to learning how your horse communicates, even when they are not saying what you want to hear, opens the doors to build an even more beautiful partnership and understanding than you could possibly imagine.

Pictured: me and my horse, Milo nearly a decade ago at a clinic.

Looking back, his behaviour was screaming to be listened to. Tail swishing, facial tension, clenched jaw, grimace of the lips, bucking, refusing fences.

I’m glad I can see it now.

05/03/2025

Allow your horse to look 🐴

There is a tendency within the horse industry to see any behaviour that isn’t just immediately complying with what we want as a sign of disrespect or disobedience.

To give a scenario I watched recently, someone is having a lesson in a new arena and their horse balks at a banner on one side and won’t go near it. The rider starts kicking and growling at the horse, the horse becomes more stressed and sort of wriggles past sideways a good 15ft away from the banner. The instructor tells them to get the horse into trot and “don’t let him look at it”. The horse comes back round being booted repeatedly with the inside leg, desperately trying to wrench his head to the outside to look at the banner. He spends the whole session full of tension bracing against the rider. This is doing nothing good for his body or his mind. He’s having a horrible time.

When met with these scenarios, if we can stop worrying about the inconvenience and think logically for a second, we can have a much better outcome. While it may initially take longer, if you consistently train in a way that your horse finds positive and doesn’t push them into high-stress, they will be much more likely to feel safer with you in the future. In this particular scenario I would’ve just let the horse look on a loose rein, allowed them to pass the banner as close as they were comfortable with and not pressed it further. If I wanted them to go closer I would reward them for the tiniest try.

Because I do so much training and enrichment that builds curiosity in my horses at home, my horses tend to approach and investigate novel objects so it is easy for me to reward that behaviour. Many horses have had their curiosity punished out of them and we need to help them find it again.

I have seen trainers with a horse standing quietly on a halter while they chat to the owner and if the horse so much as dares turn their head to look at something they are yanked sharply back into obedience. The owner being told it is a sign the horse isn’t respecting them as a leader. Meanwhile the horse is learning this person is pretty horrible and scary to be around and curiosity will be punished. Its a great way to start creating a shut down horse. Do what I say, watch me like a hawk and have no thoughts of your own, or else…

Allowing horses to look, having patience, encouraging their curiosity and building positive experiences does not create spooky horses. Chronically stressful living situations and high-stress training does.

There are so many ways we can train to build our horse’s confidence in the environment that don’t involve hassling and punishing them for the perfectly normal behaviour of wanting to look at and assess things. We also don’t need to be dragging them over tarpaulins and under flags while they try to rear and pull away from us. Using small, incremental steps to introduce new things and using positive reinforcement and enrichment activities creates brave, curious horses who can enjoy being out in the world.

A good place to start is to just pause and look with your horse when he notices something, add no pressure and just give him time to assess. You will find the more you do this, the less reactive he will be as he will start to realise you aren’t going to hassle him. 🐴

I am doing a free live Q and A tomorrow evening at 7pm over on my patreon. If any of this resonates with you and you have questions please feel free to join us over there. 😊

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03/03/2025

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03/03/2025

Horses are not sports equipment 🐴

Its getting to that time of year again where the summer feels within touching distance, the ground is finally (hopefully?) drying up and we’re much more motivated to do things with our horses. 🌻

It can be tempting to make the most of the weather and fill our diaries with outings and clinics and all of the things we love to do, but just take a moment to think if your horse is really ready to partake in those activities comfortably.

It is not unusual for horses to have very minimal work and turnout over the winter, it is also not unusual to see those same horses out jumping and doing the “fun stuff” within a few weeks of being back in work. There is this misconception that because horses are so big and strong they are perfectly equipped to be jumping and galloping around, but they are not designed to be ridden, we need to condition them slowly and thoughtfully for the work we’d like them to do if we want to avoid problems.

It was common practice on a big yard I used to be on to take the horses to the beach or the gallops and race around for a few hours, which sounds like a lovely thing to do. But these horses were maybe ridden twice a week and would do one lap of canter round the school on a good day. Taking a completely unfit horse out and galloping them around is not only unfair but highly likely to result in injury and soreness. 🐎

I was out on a XC course and watched some young girls being encouraged to jump their very tired ponies again and again and again even though they were clearly struggling to even maintain a canter, got to make the most of the outing? If your horse feels tired, stop jumping, even if the trainer is pushing, you need to be the advocate as you'll be the one who has the accident.

It is so easy to misconstrue anxiety and stress for excitement, horses that are full of adrenalin feel fitter than they are and its easy to push and think they’re really “up for it”. They’re still going to feel very fatigued and sore at the end of it. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

We also need to take into account how tiring and stressful travelling can be for horses, balancing in a moving vehicle is hard work. So if your horse isn’t used to going out and about and is only used to being ridden for 30 mins twice a week, maybe think twice before going to that weekend clinic and riding for 2 hours every day. 🥱

I’m not trying to make anyone feel bad for wanting to do fun things with their horse, but fun for who? We need to stop normalising treating horses like this. If you want to do these fun activities but aren’t prepared/able to put the training in so that your horse is capable of doing them comfortably, then maybe try a bike. 🚲 🤷🏻‍♀️

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28/02/2025

NOW FILLED Short notice availability 🐴

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24/02/2025

Vet phobias 🐴

I was asked to work with this lovely horse as, after a period of intense treatment for cellulitis, he had become so dangerous with the vet to the level that they refused to come out to him anymore. He was striking out with his front legs, kicking and aggressively biting to the point I believe he caused injury to a vet when they tried to pin him into a corner. It was also impossible to administer oral sedation via syringe. His owner was understandably upset that her horse was not only so fearful but also worried that she wouldn’t be able to get the necessary veterinary care that he might need going forwards.

When I met him he was extremely suspicious of anyone except his owner going into his stable. We decided the most sensible goal was to teach him to accept a syringe orally so his owner could sedate him herself before the vet arrived and hopefully gently start to make it a less stressful experience for him.

I always use positive reinforcement to deal with fear-based issues, there is just no way stressing a horse out more by moving their feet or flooding them with stimulus is going to make them feel better emotionally about the situation, even if it gets compliance eventually. It can also get people hurt.

I stayed working in protected contact the whole time with him on the other side of the stable door, not only for my safety but for his comfort as well, having people in his space had become scary to him.

I started teaching him simple hand targeting which he picked up quickly and seemed to enjoy. I then tried to do the same thing just holding an empty syringe in my hand and he immediately disengaged and went back to his haynet despite me working with extremely high-value food rewards. I just waited for him to engage with me again and eventually he was confidently targeting the empty syringe with his nose. There is such a positive shift in the horse’s emotional state once they realise they are allowed to say no and leave.

The last thing we worked on in that session was shaping him putting his head into my arm with my back against the door, as you would when administering a syringe.
I left his wonderful owner with a shaping plan to eventually introduce touching the syringe to his mouth once he was really comfortable with putting his head into her arm, then putting something tasty in the syringe and administering it. She has done an absolutely amazing job and he will now co-operatively take oral medication over the door with no restraint. Now they have a good baseline to work from and he is in a much better place to receive any veterinary care he may need.

I’ve attached a short video his owner sent me from one of her training sessions with him, he is so happy to engage and confident with the ask. Such a difference to the suspicious, scowly boy I met.

I saw a lovely post from a vet practice the other day where they were showcasing how they used positive reinforcement training to help a horse with needle phobia. The comments were full of people calling the horse a brat, saying he needed to be taught manners, he needed a leader, they were spoiling him etc. It baffles me that the industry is so opposed to science and seemingly being kinder to our horses? A horse that is fearful is not being disrespectful or rude, and punishing them by moving their feet around or refusing to remove the scary stimulus until they give in is going to be traumatising for them, even if you use pleasant-sounding language to describe it. Also seems like a really great way to get someone seriously injured.

It is also worth remembering that sometimes treatment is painful or unpleasant and it is natural for them to become fearful of that.

The most logical and ethical way to help a horse with fear is by using very small, incremental training steps and food rewards to create powerful positive associations. Not by applying unpleasant pressure until they stop trying to get away. 🐴

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20/02/2025

“You’re so lucky that your horse is easy” 🐴

It is common for people to feel frustrated by comments like this when they’ve put a lot of time and effort into getting things right for their horse. Statements like this are often used to explain away behavioural issues without having to look deeper. This horse is just difficult by nature and that one is easy and its nothing to do with any outside influence.

There can also be an air of status around having a more “difficult” horse, as if wrangling a rearing horse or sitting some bucks somehow makes you a better horse person.

“You’ve just got an easy cob you wouldn’t understand my sharp warmblood.”

When I was younger used to feel frustrated that some people didn’t take me seriously because I “only” had native ponies instead of bigger, flashier types. Of course different breeds may lean toward having certain personality traits, but often I think a lot of it is to do with the environment they tend to be in, especially during their developmental years.

Having now worked with probably 100s of horses in my life, there are breeds that come to mind that I find lean towards being more sensitive and reactive, I’m not going to tell you which ones as I don’t want to start discourse🥲, but I will tell you it definitely isn’t warmbloods or thoroughbreds.

The truth is our perception of an “easy” or “difficult” horse is so skewed. Just like us horses are a product of their environment. Many horses are living in a chronic state of high-stress. It is so normalised to keep horses in this way that we don’t learn to recognise these behaviours for what they are. Add to this wide-spread misinterpretation of behaviour leading to inappropriate high-stress training methods and on top of that many horses carrying around undiagnosed pain and discomfort. This is a great recipe for a “difficult” horse.

I’ll tell you why my horses are so “easy”.

🐴 I make sure their needs are met - My horses have freedom to express natural behaviour all day every day, this includes socialising, foraging, having comfortable places to sleep and feeling safe in their environment. They also have access to appropriate forage 24/7. Meeting needs goes way beyond just choosing stabling or turnout, it is down to the individual horse and environment and how we can make it work for them. What is your horse’s life like for the 20 + hours you aren’t with them?

🐴 I am a consistently safe person to be around - I don’t take out my frustration on my horses. If they get upset or stressed I stay calm and non-emotional about it. This takes work, it is normal and human to feel irritated, but if you want to be good around horses you have to work on it. Our horses are not going to be able to relax around us if we start yanking them around or shouting at them when we don’t like their behaviour. My horses now know that my behaviour is predictable and I am calm and safe to be around, they don’t need to be worried around me.

🐴 I take their feelings into account - I don’t expect my horses to behave like machines. Instead of being frustrated by their behaviour I see it as the communication it is. For example if its extremely windy and I can see my horse is really on edge, I may change my plans on the kind of training session we do that day instead of setting them up to fail.

🐴 I train with low-stress - I handle and train my horses with their emotional state in mind. I try my best to not get into situations that are going to cause my horses high stress and I keep training sessions easy and pleasant to create positive associations. The more you create positive associations, the better your horse will feel about training with you and you are much less likely to get any “difficult” behaviour.

🐴 I am very aware of how they use their bodies - I observe my horses and how they move as much as I can. I can recognise when they are finding things difficult and adjust accordingly. So many supposed “difficult” behaviours are caused by horses being pushed to do things they cannot physically do without causing themselves discomfort. Many horses are being ridden with a lot of tension and brace on top of compromised bodies. There is a whole other world with horses out there once we learn to recognise this. If your horse is being resistant its probably because he can’t do it, it is definitely not because he needs to be pushed harder.

🐴 I trust my horse’s opinion - Lastly, if my horse is telling me something is wrong, I believe him. It doesn’t matter how many different professionals are of the opinion he is “fine”. I do not ignore my horses and just crack on, I keep looking for people who will support me and we figure it out together. So many of my clients have tried so hard to listen to their horses and advocate for them only to be belittled and told their horse is just taking the mick out of them, anyone who is saying this does not understand horse behaviour, I don’t care how many qualifications they have.

You may be surprised at how many “difficult” horses become calm and “easy” if we can implement the above changes. The problem is sometimes those changes are very inconvenient for the human. 🐴

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