Dreaming Fields Equine

09/04/2025

Replace discipline with training and sit with it.

Discipline means "to teach" not "to punish". It wasn't Jesus and the 12 punishers... 💁🏼‍♀️✨️

08/31/2025

Best vets ever- we are SO blessed to have them

New to Prices Creek? Welcome! We do things a little differently here…we have no waiting room.

Our goal is to be a low stress clinic – a scared cat trapped in a carrier next to a giant barking dog is the opposite of low stress. The risk of fights between animals who don’t know each other is high when they’re crammed together like sardines in a small space. The risk of passing something contagious from sick animals to healthy animals is even higher.

So, in an effort to keep all our patients as stress free and healthy as we can, we ask you to check in at the front window on the west side of the building and wait in your car until your appointment is called. Just let the staff know which parking spot you are in, and we will come out to get you when it’s your turn. We realize that for some of you this seems an inconvenience, although feedback from many clients over the years indicates that they would prefer to wait in your car, listening to their own choice of tunes, and not worrying about encounters with other animals in our waiting room.

If you would prefer a totally curbside visit (because needles make you squirm, or because your pets are braver without you in the room, or because you don’t want to miss the ending of your favorite podcast), they are available!

Nurse-only appointments, weight checks, nail trims, surgery drop off and discharge, and a**l gland expression visits are curbside - keeping these appointments curbside means you don't have to wait for an exam room to come open for your quick visit!

Food and Medication Refills - you can pick up your items at the window, and the staff will check you out right there. Alternatively, you still have the option to order chronic food and meds on our ship-to-home pharmacy: https://pricescreekvet.myvetstoreonline.pharmacy (unfortunately, there are a few meds that cannot be ordered online due to state regulations, and those will still have to be filled through our clinic).

****Please be extremely careful when entering and exiting our parking lot off route 40. There have been many serious accidents at the intersection and we have lost count as to how many people have backed into our power pole. The visibility coming over the hill on 40 is poor - DO NOT try to back into the road. Please be safe!!

Thanks from Dennis, the Staff, and Vets of Prices Creek!

08/24/2025

Back in 2020 I decided that I was ready to tackle my fear of cantering this mare ba****ck with guidance from my amazing trainer , that November I gave up my saddle for no stirrup November…. And I never went back.

08/24/2025

08/24/2025

Not Horse related but incredibly important information.

One of the scariest things that’s ever happened to me, occurred a couple of years back at an Easter dinner party. Lots of adults out on the terrace and as is my usual, I was drawn to the group of children off to the side away from everyone who were tossing rocks in the small garden pond.

I happened to be standing right next to the water and I happened to be watching and aware of the children because especially near water. I am always aware of the children.

I think my partner’s 3 year old niece tried to stand on one of the slate rocks at the edge, and it tipped and dumped her in. She went in headfirst over her head with her mouth open, silently.

I heard the splash and saw clothing in front of me and I jumped in. I had her in my arms before she hit the bottom. I needed help to get out, it was about chest high on me. There is no way the other kids could have helped her. The other adults were mostly too far and unaware. What if still makes me shiver.



08/22/2025

Current Price List :)

08/22/2025

What I do at dreaming fields equine is a little different. I don’t exactly teach riding and I don’t exactly teach Horses to be ridden.

As a mobile trainer, I come to the owner’s barn and I work with a clicker and positive reinforcement to help Horses and their people communicate with each other better.

I also offer what I call Horses 101 lessons, targeting new owners, beginners who are trying to figure out everything from how to fit a blanket to why their horse won’t trot for them.

As a problem, solver I work with a lot of horses who have good foundations with a few problem areas. I do a lot of trailer loading, tying problem-solving and I gentle babies. I have a lot of experience with draft and draft cross babies, particularly.

I have been performing at Liberty and training at Liberty with my main mare for over a decade. My Liberty lesson rates are the same as my regular mobile training rates to provide an affordable introduction to the discipline.

Students who are interested in progressing to liberty competition I refer out to some of my friends who are fantastically talented but far more expensive than I am once they have the basics down with me.

“The horses like her”~several clients
“She helps People with Horses and horses with People”

08/20/2025

I come to you and work with your horse at your barn.

I do beginner Liberty lessons with the same price as my regular lessons to provide an affordable accessible introduction to the discipline.

What I do is a little different. I use about 75% positive reinforcement and I train with a clicker. My job is to figure out why you and your Horse are having trouble accomplishing your goals and then figure out a way to make it easier for them to understand and respond.

Specializing in gentling wildlings and babies, particularly draft and draft crosses.

I also have what I call Horses 101 lessons where I support new horse owners through the journey that means sometimes we have a training session and sometimes we learn how to fit blankets

whatever support the team needs to be successful is what I provide on site. in person.

08/20/2025

I so appreciate everyone who shares or tags me as a referral.
Without you guys and your Horses, none of this would happen and none of it would matter.

07/26/2025

Yet again he eloquently explained something that I understand in intuitively, but couldn’t have put into words.

This is how we started Porsche. I took so much time with her that by the time I get on, she herself had been lining up to the block and begging somebody to sit on her for several weeks. 

RIDING BRIDLELESS IN A AN ARENA WITH OTHER HORSES ON THE 6TH RIDE.

This photo is from a clinic in Holland or Belgium about 8 or 9 years ago.

It's of an amazing lady named Jo, and her horse Asphodel. I believe he is an Arab x Connemara. By the time Jo came to the clinic Asphodel had 4 or 5 rides, in a round pen.

Jo is British, but lived in Germany at the time, and she had spent a lot of time STTDP (Stick To The Damn Plan). Sticking to the plan involves making sure each step in the horses education is good before moving on to the next step.

One of the steps that Asphodel took a while to get good at before the clinic was the transition from the ground to the saddle (actually the mounting block to the saddle). Jo would pick her foot up to put it in the stirrup and her horses head would raise slightly, so she'd work on that till it was good (meaning it no longer concerned her horse, even slightly).

Then the next day that was good, but when she placed her foot in the stirrup, her horse would tense slightly. She worked on that until it was good.

Then next say she could pick her foot up, and place it in the stirrup, and her horse was good, but when she went to bounce slightly on the foot that was on the mounting block, her horse was slightly concerned. By the end of that session, that bit was good.

The next session she could pick her foot up, place it in the stirrup, and bounce slightly on the mounting block, and her horse was good, but when she bounced with enough energy to mount, her horse became a little concerned. She worked on that until it was good.

This was all at the place she kept her horse (so before she came to the clinic). All of the other riders at that particular barn would walk by and say things like "aren't you ever going to ride that horse", or "just get on and ride", or "you're wasting time, it will take forever at this rate", etc etc.

The final step was to be able to lift her foot, place it in the stirrup, bounce slightly, bounce more, then mount, and her horse was just as relaxed as he was before she even stepped on the mounting block. So the process, from the mounting block, to actually sitting on her horse, took 5 days. So of course everyone at her barn (livery, whatever you choose to call it) now thinks she's taking things way too slow.

Fast forward to the clinic, the first day she went to mount, she had to go back through that step by step process, but instead of taking 5 days, it takes over an hour, because he's in a different environment.. But then when she's on, her horse is completely relaxed, and we take that relaxation into the riding.

Which brings me to this photo.

By day 2, her horse can walk, trot and canter, without any steering (Jo was just riding in a rope halter) and he under his own control. Jo isn't controlling him, he is controlling himself. To show everyone there how important it was that Jo spent those 5 days working on the little things, we pulled the halter off and had her ride at a walk, trot and canter in an arena full horses (I had the others all stand still for this) without a problem. Jo told me that when she went home from the clinic and showed pictures to the people at her barn, they all changed their tune from "you are taking too long" to "oh you are so lucky you have a quiet horse, mine would never do that", but the truth is if they had taken the time with their horse that Jo had, they could be that lucky as well (I like the saying "you make your own luck").

Some people might think that 5 days is a long time for that one step, but if you are planning to ride this horse for the next 15 years, 5 days is actually 0.0913242009% of the time.

Before people start saying how brave Jo is, I want to direct your attention to a big sign on the wall in the photo, that you can't quite see all of. In full it says "I'm not brave, I'm thorough". Brave is knowing something dangerous is going to happen and doing it anyway. When you are thorough, and know you have your horse properly prepared, you don't need to be brave.

if you are interested in learning about all the steps involved in having a horse be able to control themselves like this under saddle, just go to our video library at videos.warwickschiller.com