Thunder's Farm, LLC

Thunder's Farm, LLC Thunder's Farm, we have happy horses! Boarding options from pasture to stall. Thunder's Farm is owned by Judith Pim and managed by Sara Etter and Neal Kyer

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•Non-escalating pressure•

It doesn't exist.
It's a myth that's often used as a trendy marketing term.

Placing this expectation on modern horse owners to be more ethical through a theory that logically doesn't measure up to reality is a hefty price to pay, if you ask me.

All living creatures seek comfort within finding a balance of *everything*.
Such as the comfort between being too hot or too cold, hungry or stuffed, rested and exercised, and it only gets more nuanced from there.

This means that mere stagnation, in and of itself becomes "escalating pressure" every single time.

Any stagnation.
Even sitting down in the most comfortable chair becomes uncomfortable and even painful unless one shifts position.

That's escalating pressure experienced simply by being alive.

The soft, quiet, comfortable cues that are labeled as pressure free or non-escalating lack the fluctuating, cyclical, living feel that exists within the laws of life and horses.

Clicker theory attempted to avoid the topic all together, but that is an equivalent logical fallacy.

All it takes is to look around and FEEL, to know that it isn't the truth.

The horse-first-man-ship scene misslabeled abuse as escalating pressure.

And in our attempt to avoid that hell, the work became stagnant.

Our horses' bodies and minds exist in the discomfort equivalent to the "pins and needles" feeling from sitting cross legged too long, just because humans are afraid to flow and fluctuate (or escalate).

So that brings me to my main ideas for today.

1. Non-escalating pressure and feel do not coexist

2. Training without pressure all together is DEFINITELY not real. (Even and especially if food rewards are involved)

3. Living Feel is rhythmic and fluctuating

So let's think of escalating pressure as fluctuating pressure.

Of non-escalating pressure as the stagnant feel that it is.

And let's call cruelty, cruelty. Without dressing it into "escalating pressure".

Always remember that the difference between medicine and poison is the dose. Thank you for reading.

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