Ensbrook

10/31/2024

I was watching this and my bkack cat jumps off the couch,looking around, wide eyes, looking everywhere. He finally jumped up on the back of my chair, then it ended.

05/16/2024

Ensbrook CenterStage, has a new person. Leigh Troggio messaged me a couple weeks ago, asking if I knew of any older horses that she could add to her 2 horses. Just a pasture pony. So, I sent her some information on a couple I knew would be low maintenance, easy to be around, and very kind older girls. She picked out Centerstage. CS is 23 this year. been living out in the back barn free-roaming with the other elderly girls. Now she gets to have her own stall, with a run-in and pasture during the day. I'm sure she is getting a good brushing also. She is remaining close so I can get checkups on her. I am loving this. Thank you Leigh.

05/15/2024

04/20/2024

FB is at it again, changing things around to p**s us off a little. Wanting to force us to use their META AI, and today my messaging platform has changed. 🤔😠

04/20/2024

What can I say.

04/13/2024

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

04/13/2024

Beautiful day today!

01/06/2024

Fun to go back and see

01/01/2024

I'm so fortunate and thankful too have a dog who jumps up barks, growls, and trots around the house when the big booms are going on. Through all the years of owning dogs they have all handled the New Year, and 4th celebrations.
HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone!

11/16/2023

Lesson night Tarha is out trying to lunge Lance. It is pure torcher as he's a slug at lunging. I think I should go save her. 😊

11/13/2023

Yesterday we had a little get together in the barn. A pot luck, good food good laughs. I mentioned to one of my friends about doing pin the tail on the Morgan and this is what she and her girls came up with.. even the adults got into it. We're gonna save that for the next party.

11/09/2023

Lesson night, my buddy has a hurt paw. It just showed up a few hours ago. He cold also so I got him his pad to sit and lay on out here

11/06/2023

Horses are generally content and compliant animals—unlike humans, they don’t typically have “bad days” that negatively affect their personalities due to emotional duress. Furthermore, as a prey animal they are cognitively designed NOT to show stress or injury, or else they will be recognized as a target by a predator, or bumped down the herd hierarchy.

If a horse is acting differently, it is almost undoubtedly due to a medical issue. We can appreciate this as lameness, but typically the behavioral signs preclude an obvious gait abnormality. Sometimes these behaviors seem chronic (e.g., “He/she always pins their ears when we tighten the girth, or bites at my leg when I ask for more effort.”), but it is important to remember that many horses live with chronic pain. It is rare that a horse is angry or cranky as a result of its genetic nature. Admittedly, some horses “train” their people to back off if they demonstrate a particular behavior, but pain absolutely should be ruled out before coming to this conclusion.

Therefore, if your horse is acting differently, or comes out stiff or lame, it is necessary to consider medical reasons for this behavior, even if your equine friend “works out of it.” As pain is generated, the horse’s body releases pain modifying agents in order to perform its job—which once again goes back to being a prey animal.

As the guardians of these magnificent animals, it is imperative that we “listen” to what the horse is trying to tell us and at the very least get a medical expert’s non-biased opinion about what could be going on, in order to rule out injury or illness as a contributing factor. We owe it to the horse.

Brought to you by the AAEP Horse Owner Education Committee
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Want to learn more? Watch the documentary based on Dr. Sue Dyson’s groundbreaking work on signs of pain in the ridden horse here: https://equimanagement.com/news/dr-sue-dyson-featured-in-new-equine-documentary-on-the-24-behaviors-of-the-ridden-horse-in-pain/

10/17/2023

https://snohomishcd.org/blog/2023/9/12/preparing-horse-properties-for-winter

You can count on Pacific Northwest winters being cold, wet, dark, and windy. During many winters you can add snowy and icy to that description. For horse owners this usually means struggles such as slogging through mud to do chores with less time to ride or exercise horses. As it is with most everyt

09/28/2023

Lessons tonight was a great work out for the both of them. Lots of cantering a pole work tonight.