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04/16/2025

Four of the horses got to go on a field trip last week to go play with cows, some for the first time! Two of them also got to try out having a rope thrown off them for the first time and tracking/roping a sled. It’s so important for these horses to go see the world and get all sorts of experience no matter which direction they may end up going down the road.

04/01/2025

This might stir the pot a little bit but...

Failing to provide human world life skills/training to your horse and/or blaming a horse’s unpreparedness in the world is negligence.

A spooky, reactive, herd bound horse or horse with behavior issues is a horse having a hard time in the human world because of a lack of correct exposure, experiences or training. It doesn't always mean there has been trauma or abuse from previous owners or trainers.

Horses are meant to have a flight response, to be leery of new things, to be a part of a herd. It's how they survived in the wild long before we every stuck them in boxes and expected them to know human life.

If you've ever work with wild or feral horses you can understand that the reactivity is just the horse being a horse. Everything is black and white with them.

Your horse having a hard time standing for farrier most likely isn't a past trauma issue. It's also not your farriers job to train your horse to stand for them to do their feet.

Your horse reacting over having a saddle on its back
is probably not past abuse, they just haven't been taught otherwise.

Now, there are cases where trauma, abuse and pain do play as a factor but using that as an excuse instead of taking the time and steps or treating the pain to create new positive pathways in the horses brain is just continuing the stress cycle in the horse.

Horses didn't ask to be domesticated, ridden, stuffed in metal boxes on wheels or taken away from their friends, so it's our job to help them navigate our world.

Teach your horse some life skills, I guarantee you'll have a happier horse for it.

03/28/2025

You don’t have to talk loud if you live right ✨

03/27/2025

All it takes is one person to do the right thing.
And if it bothers you enough, that person is you. Something can always be done.
You can make a difference.
And if it doesn't matter enough for you to get involved, then stop complaining about it.

03/26/2025

Gearing up for show season!

03/20/2025

A little on what the past week has looked like here at Twin Pines Performance Horses!

03/17/2025

If anyone has a horse they would like trained and shown THIS YEAR in reining or reined cowhorse let's talk! Willing to work with someone on discounted training fees for the right situation! Must be able to commit to a full show year! Planning to attend WSSH, HDRCH, CRRHA, possibility of out of state shows for the right horse.
(Not a free training/board situation, just discounted)
We are also building or show team if you and your horse are interested in lessons and want to be a part of a fun, low stress show team! Come join us!
Twin Pines Performance Horses
Bend, OR

02/24/2025

You pay that hefty training bill for the month.

You look to have you horse in training as little as possible so it doesn’t break the bank.

You’re disappointed when after 30 days or 60 days or 90 days, there’s still more work to be done or the goal hasn’t been met. Worse yet, it looks good, you take the horse home and it unravels piece by piece. All that money “wasted”.

When you pay a trainer, that money isn’t paying for a result, it’s paying for someone’s skilled effort.

At least for me, when someone gets unhappy that their horse “isn’t fixed yet”, or comes “untrained” after it’s been home a while, makes the task of training horses for other people, discouraging. Discouraging because the efforts are being made, usually my best efforts that are filled with compassion, determination and lots of ruminating on how to fix complex issues a horse may have. Their disappointment becomes my failure basically. I know that’s not an actual truth but it’s never rewarding when someone is disappointed due to their own expectations.

Training a horse is NOT like being a mechanic on a car. Its not a tune up, it’s not the simple replacement of a part. It’s an animal with thoughts, feelings, emotions, habits, talents, etc. You don’t just program them, tune them up or replace a faulty part and send it back good as new.

You arent paying for results to happen within your timeline, you are paying for the time it takes to reach a desired result. The more complicated the project, the bigger the investment. The more baggage a horse has, the more effort it takes to unravel the mess. The bigger the goal, the greater the investment.

People send their horses to certain trainers because they want the outcome that trainer proves they can achieve. The problem is, people want that result in the shortest time frame possible because time, again, is money. It takes the time it takes to create the vision and time costs money. People who have a diy mentality, value the effort so much more when they themselves invest their own energy into a horse rather than just paying for it. I really feel that those who do it themselves, come to appreciate the efforts it takes far more than those who sign the check.

Be nice to your trainers, they work hard. 🙂

Credit goes to:
Katy Negranti Performance Horsemanship https://www.facebook.com/share/1BPC3yLZYx/

02/21/2025

Tilly’s second ride!!
This girl went from nearly killing my assistant and I when we had to go load her so her owner could bring her to training, dragging us across the arena on the daily and running you over or jumping on top of you anytime she would react to something… to this!!
She’s turning out pretty cool!

02/04/2025

Working on getting the two mustangs ready for their first rides!

01/07/2025

If there’s one thing that my horse training career has taught me it’s this…

If you think there is a problem, there probably is a problem.

I’ve seen and experienced so many pain and behavior issues in horses that it’s an unfortunate “knack” that I’ve acquired.
Within the first 5-10 minutes spent with a horse I typically can tell if something isn’t right. This was even more brought to my attention more recently when I had a horse come into training with some very severe and dangerous behavior issues which were extremely similar to a horse I had a few years ago. Sure enough they both had the same vertebrae‘s in their necks out of place which can only occur from them having flipped over or being cast. Their behavior from the pain and lack of being able to use their bodies properly was something never recognized as pain issues, just written off as dangerous and explosive.

And the even more unfortunate part is that these problems are becoming more and more common.

Horses that have been ruined by other professionals or even harmed by the professionals themselves.
The owners think they are doing the right thing by getting professional help and end up with a bigger issue than they started with.

Many times a professional will tell you there isn't a problem because they don't have the skillset to see or find it.

The close mindedness or lack of awareness in the horse industry is disgusting.

There are many trainers that won’t take a horse that’s been started or maybe I should say attempted to be started by someone else. They want a blank slate and rightfully so. I’ve thought about that as well, it can be extremely time consuming and emotionally taxing to help these horses work through there issues but then what becomes of these horses that aren’t seen or heard by other professionals? What about their owners who paid good money for their horse to be broke to the saddle but ended up with a physically and emotionally broken horse instead?

I’ve been the last chance for many horses in my career. Horses gone thru trainer after trainer and their owners telling me that I’m their last chance… the next step is to humanely euthanize them… All because no one could see there was a problem until it became dangerous.

Horses don’t owe us anything, they didn’t ask for any of this. We brought them into our world for our own use. The least we can do is do right by them.

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Bend, OR
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http://www.twinpinesequestrian.com/

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