Horse Conversations

18/11/2025

18/11/2025

Question everything you’ve been taught so far, if it came from a man. That’s how I go about life these days, because being the “good girl” hasn’t brought me, nor the world far, or let’s say to happiness, which is the ultimate goal for all of us.

I want you to be angry.
Because it will set you and your horse free.

Part of my systemic horse coaching process was discovering how horses react to emotions - and let me tell you they do, even if you don’t feel them.

They are and always will be our teachers.

It’s time to speak up and see the strength in what was taught to be weakness.

17/11/2025

Shifting the narrative - inviting all conscious horse women to be part of it.

With the kind contribution of the very talented to push the envelope of female centered horse-woman-ship for harmony and partnership instead of force and control.

I love to unite different creators from different fields under this message.

If you feel called - reach out! 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜

13/11/2025

The Statement of Ingmar De Vos, president of the FEI, really is the last drop in the bucket and now it should overflow. For everybody. Even if you were, until now, doubting if it’s really “that bad”, yes it is.

If the president of the international organization that is supposed to guard welfare of horses and work in the interest of all equestrians can talk down to us - everyone outside his elite circle - it is time to abandon ship, for all of us.

The ability to take criticism, reflect, look for evidence outside your personal opinion and have a respectful discussion about it, including the willingness to this over and over again to ensure the highest standard of professionalism and ethics - is mandatory to become president of any organization - and he’s failing.

The whole board is.

Looking at them, receiving credits and applause during the assembly, while horses bleed in their competitions. It’s a disgrace.

I do hope their conscience is nagging at night.

If you want your conscience to stop nagging - it is time to step into the uncomfortable, the new, the change, with the risk of loosing your unconscious way of working horses. Choose evidence based knowledge and ethical care and handling. No. Matter. What.

We can’t change the world with hoping others will do it.

Be the change you want to see.

And you don’t have to become a horse behaviorist for this. You just have to learn a little, integrate a little and feel a lot. And then you can embody a new way of being with horses - one that empowers you, gives you the right arguments, safe sources and confidence to ask for change around you. From equestrians, friends and family.

The World Cup 2026 is coming soon. We can’t keep on watching like we did before.

Know your horses. Have a look what I can offer you and help me support the activism for more horse welfare in 2026.

12/11/2025

If I were to be into horse sport, this would be incredibly offending and belittling. The amount of gaslighting in this statement is reason alone to be questioning everything and everyone now.

If you’re someone who’s still waiting and hoping for changes in the FEI I am so sorry.
This organization is lost.

Time to leave the sinking ship

Did the President of the FEI really say that?

On the 7th November at he FEI General Assembly in Hong Kong, Ingmar De Vos Dismissed widely published external peer-reviewed evidence, global welfare expert presentations, and opinions from the world's leading animal welfare experts. The unequivocal evidence of good horse welfare diminished in a single sentance to "animal activists and our so called critical friends "

* emphasis on key message *

Concerning the highly contentious BLOOD RULE. De Vos thanked the jumping department and stated that the cross-references to other rules “make it clearer that this is a good rule and much better than the existing rule”.

“I would like, again, to thank you for the very constructive debate. But discussions and decisions regarding such sensitive topics *need to be scientifically based*, not based on emotions and certainly not based upon panic,” he said.

“We should be careful that we are not going to discuss these topics every year, again and again, because it does only one thing:

it gives **ammunition to activists and to our so-called critical friends** to bring our sport and our athletes into discredit.

We should not do that again and again.

I know we are together in one thing: we all want to have the best for the horse.

We all want to do what is necessary to preserve horse welfare, and we are doing that.”

He added: “You have requested a separate vote on that [article 259], and that’s fine.

The governance of our organisation allows you to ask for that, **but be careful what you want to send as a message by doing it.**

“We, as the FEI, are **not going to explain to the rest of the world** why you vote against them, (*the other 56 federations who voted for the new blood rule)
because for us, it’s a no-brainer - that this rule needs to be approved.

Because it’s better for our horses, it’s better for our athletes, it’s better for our sport.

See the Satirical spin in comments by The Carrot Post

Link to FEI General Assembly 2025
https://inside.fei.org/media-updates/fei-general-assembly-2025-%E2%80%93-summary-decisions?fbclid=IwVERDUAOBT55leHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR6KtryhRiWNOQirucQJfN-F0e-4o8TySwnpIpuL7B7Yt0G2-36vPbcm0p1Hxg_aem_Z6VZX4NlqNgSRD9cwJ6eiQ #:~:text=Photo%20caption:%20FEI%20President%20Ingmar%20De%20Vos,Hong%20Kong%2C%20China%20%C2%A9FEI/Shortcut%20by%20Jason.%20Partners.





Photo credit: International photographer, Crispin Parelius Johannessen

09/11/2025

Passion girls. Passion. About horses. About their welfare. Not our ego. That’s it.

Happy to be at a decent stable where we all agree on this.

Let’s hold each other accountable 🙏
Because in the end, we are the majority, don’t forget that.

08/11/2025

Here we go - some passive aggressive millennial humor coping mechanism in form of memes.

Whatever floats the boat of getting this wide and far.

Not covering words in “correctness” and “sensitivity” anymore.

Sure, maybe it’s just MY opinion - but for me this happening really just highlights how using horses for personal gain is just a no-go for the future.

And if the FEI decides to stay its course - then I sincerely hope they drown.

Choose the one you like the most and share.

Oh and btw, the last one is my favorite. Reminding us of the changes happened, changes possible, changes necessary, changes inevitable.

This is the time where the hidden patterns of the world reveal themselves. Make sure you are looking right at them.

08/11/2025

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07/11/2025

My problem with the sport?

Where do I start - ah yes, well, apparently, a bleeding animal is no reason for concern as long as it serves a human purpose of winning a shiny thingy and a ribbon. And I just can’t subscribe to that mindset.
I mean, why stop there?

What most don’t understand, and especially 82 member-countries of the FEI, is the mindset towards animals and ethics that this is brewing. And the long-term effect on handling and training horses all over the world.

If we don’t stop our ambitions in the moment we see red, where do we?

I’ve been talking about welfare issues in the sport industry for years - people came at me with real concerns of loosing the sport and I was like “Ahh well, no one wants to cancel the sport, we just want better circumstances for the horses”.

Congratulations you fu**ed this up yourself. Proving finally and finite, that welfare is NOT of your concern.
So why should we supporting this sport anyway?

I guess, you could be honest about it and say that you’re just in it for the money, fair enough.

But it’s 2025 guys - we have animal rights. And this sport is OBVIOUSLY against it.

Don’t believe me?

Wait ..

Article 3 of the German welfare act (the German FN voted in favour of keeping the no-blood-rule btw, thanks for that)

Article 3

It shall be prohibited:

1. to require an animal to produce performances clearly beyond its strength or capacity, in view of its condition, save in emergencies;
5. to subject an animal to training causing the animal severe pain, suffering or harm;

It’s just interesting to me, how grown people in an organisation like the FEI really think that the appearance of blood does not come with going beyond strength and capacity alongside pain and suffering.

The answer is probably: it has never been about the horses.
So why keep the sport then.

There so much more and better things to do and be with horses. Let’s focus on that and let the other rule itself away.

Sincerely, Carolina from Horse Conversations

06/11/2025

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