Whispering For Joey

05/12/2024

HAPPY MOTHER’S NEIGH, from my best boy. He puts up with me oversleeping and getting here late. As long as I’m here for the important stuff. Raf came off of the race track, having won his maiden race, crippled. He was diagnosed at three years old with osteoarthritis in his front legs, and therefore declared not ridable. Do you know what happens to Thoroughbreds when they can’t earn a living? So I was very, very fortunate to be chosen to be his mom. He is barefoot, sound, and thriving on holistic grain-free care. I have the rehab gene. He’s a fabulous smart, intuitive partner. Meet Joey’s Mandate’s cousin, my therapy animal and my best friend, Raftery. 🐎☘️🇮🇪

05/11/2024

JOEY’s MANDATE, BIRTHDAY RUN IN THE SKY 💙

03/07/2024

GREAT FENCING for a cribber!!!!

Growing a tall hedge (3.5 m high and 2.6–4.2 m wide) and trimming it every three years is good for the environment and for the health of your horse.
Good for the environment because a hedge this height/ width stores the most carbon in the soil underneath it and contributes to the biodiversity of the soil. Over trimmed hedges have a reduced ability for both.
The best hedge plants, ie those that store the most carbon and are impressively good for the health of the horse in order …
1. Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) the highest ability to store carbon, full of antioxidants and phytonutrients to help with metabolism, inflammation and arthritis.
2. Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa)- high in flavonoids to reduce inflammation, support metabolism and give strong protection against free radical damage.
3. Bramble (Rubus corylifolius)- strong immune system support and improves metabolism.
4. Spindle (Euonymus europaeus)- an important plant for the horse to nibble, contains antimicrobial compounds active against many pathogens, its also anti- fungal.
www.equibiome.org

10/25/2023

HE UNSTYLED MY HAIR, gave me a huge hug, a back rub and sloppy kisses with breakfast lips this morning! I love that horse smell and his warm body next to me! Raftery is free from racing, riding and rules💚🐎

09/06/2023

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018. I woke up and went to feed my horse as usual, knowing there might be issues. There was a dead mare in the pasture and a dead goat in the barn. Straight up neglect care. And my horse was stuck there. I struggled through the day with the obvious decisions. Then at approx 11:45PM, I started getting texts that the other boarder’s horses had been in a horrible trailer accident. Innocents subjected to the idiocy of the Black Cowboys (DON’T get me started on that). I was doing triage on three horses until 1:30AM. That was the beginning of the rehab battle against the stupidity of neglect care. I had to force a vet call, she came four days later! Too late for one of them. Rebound (new name) had severe lacerations all over his body and particularly the right hind leg and front leg. His friend Abby was put down. Owner abandoned him and the other survivor. Without me he would not be here. He is safe, well and far away from neglect. It was a three month long battle to keep him safe and alive amidst a constant lack of support and bickering with the farm owners’ daily threats to shoot him. Despite his incredible progress at no expense to them aside from crappy hay. All expenses were out of my pocket and the kindness of my beloved vet Dan Lambert. We triumphed over this adversity due to vigilance and skill. I have not met anyone who could do what me and Dan could do together. I miss you dear friend.

This is Rebound today. He is the horse that love saved!! My homeopathic work in living breathing action. The boy, who on a recent phone call with the owner, heard my voice on the phone for the first time since he left, and went to the door of the barn looking for me. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

08/22/2023

ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL COLLOIDAL SILVER STORY! I was the one who introduced him to it!! ❤️ Yay! Goldie x x x x x

I typically soak a paper towel and wipe the eye area while squeezing the towel to make sure it gets into the eye. If your horse will allow it, you can use a dropper bottle or fine must spray. Once they get relief they will allow it!!

03/31/2023

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDA. Give Joey a nuzzle up there, and me and Raffy send you a huge hug!!!!

Happy Birthday A.P. INDY hope you are resting easy in horse heaven ❤️

03/18/2023

MY HERO!! MY LAST REHAB REBOUND. Left for dead he was rehab resurrected by me in 2018!!!!! Hugs my ReRe!! 🥰

03/10/2023

HAPPY BIRTHDAY IN HEAVEN JOEY’MANDATE💛 My stud muffin!!

02/02/2023

JOEY’S GIFT, my Raftery

12/17/2022

HUMAN AGENDA is often harmful to horses. Name dropping trainers means NOTHING to a horse in pain!!!! .

The 24 Behaviors of the Ridden Horse in Pain is a film that dares to challenge the way we look at "badly behaving" horses, and promotes the notion that lamen...

09/28/2022

SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHO I AM? The farm owner posted this about me and what it means to not give up on an injury or a horse on Instagram. Ironic. This was the farm that threatened his life everyday he was there and tormented me with threats of shooting Re in the head before I came back the next day. I had to say goodbye to this boy several times because the owner did not step up. And these farm owners had no compassion. He did recover. I came into this off three weeks of excruciating goat rehab in which one died, the other one is my bestie for life. And another horse was dead in the pasture the morning of this accident due to neglect. This is NC horsekeeping. And this is Rebound, he was kind, he was fighting, his life mattered. And we won this war! He is alive and free of these horrific people! Step up, or step out. Thank you USERL for the training. The powers that be gave me the rehab gene. THIS IS WHO I AM.

09/09/2022

THANK YOU M’AM 💔

There is a place that you go,
No matter what you believe,
While all those who love you,
Take time to grieve.

The sweet smell of hay,
And the greenest of grass,
Gentle soft muzzles,
A place time doesn’t pass.

Your loss will be felt,
But we’ll take comfort and know,
The day that you left,
We knew where you’d go.

Reunited with loved ones,
No more to depend,
Reins in one hand,
Your ride never ends.

While we all mourn,
While we’ve lost someone great,
We know that so many,
Wait for you at the gate.

Thank you, your majesty,
For all that you’ve done,
Gather up the reins now,
It’s your time to ride on.

04/06/2022

THIS IS THE WORK I PRACTICE!. As a non-ridden equine, my horse is missing nothing and gaining much more! VERY intelligent animal!

01/28/2022

HONOURING THE LIFE & LOSS OF JOEY'S MANDATE, FEB 2014

01/19/2022

SENSORY PERCEPTION: I use the Tellington bodywrap method on Raftery for anxiety and equine wellbeing. He LOVES body work, and for a horse that is over 16hh, that is such a blessing. His breeder did a fine job of handling him and he was not on the race track long enough for them to ruin him!

https://www.ttouch.ca/2018/01/24/body-wraps-from-a-sensory-perspective-by-kathy-cascade-tellington-ttouch-instructor/?fbclid=IwAR0ARd2hoJ3ZqoN_oY6SrKGVagijVYXwVJge6GizLR3fnKZsVpiXQe2Ovx8

Tellington TTouch Body Wraps are a simple but surprisingly powerful tool for all species. They can improve balance and enhance concentration and confidence.

01/17/2022

LIBERTY TRAINER!! I do not use tack or treats and my horse follows me everywhere! He ALWAYS chooses me. Period! Something to be said for that!

Dear horses everywhere, It's quite a task to get a human started as a working partner. Working with humans can be a delicate, or sometimes not-so delicate balance of give-and-take. Best of luck with it, Fergus.

https://www.horseandriderbooks.com/store/fergus-a-horse-to-be-reckoned-with.html

12/23/2021

TO CLUELESS FORMER COWORKERS who think I am a stupid bumpkin with an Associate degree! Yeah right. I still got all my day work done, while they were gossiping about the hay in my hair and why I still have a stethoscope around my neck and powerful homeopathic drugs in my parka pocket because I was up all night saving a horse’s life from colic!!! And Dan Lambert DVM is calling me for advice and for the playback because he thinks I’m a ROCKSTAR (RIP, I miss you Dano). True story! 🙄

11/16/2021

COLIC THIS MORNING 🙄 Zero gut sounds on his left side. Electrolyte paste, Nux Vomica and Rescue Remedy got things moving in about 15 minutes! Hope it sticks! And he got choked on hay pellets! Never give race horses unsoaked pellets! They gobble!!

09/14/2021

UK GETS IT!

Beach for art UK.

08/30/2021

WE LOVE IT!!

08/06/2021

COMMITMENT ISSUES. This is Pepper, 4 months old c2009. She loved her very first person....I love her too! I imprinted her at a few hours old. We managed to rescue her from an overbreeding situation. But no one else ever took up any time with her for the bond we had to shift. Sadly, she ended up in the shuffle. She was a beautiful smart girl and I hope she found respect wherever she ended up. I despise most horse people for their total lack of compassion. I never forget any of my babies and rehabs. This is a totally heartbreaking business and Raftery will be my last horse because of it.

07/17/2021

MY HORSES ARE NEVER RIDDEN

Can we normalise connection over achievement? Reality over filtered perfection? Can we normalise muddy, adored non ridden horses?

This beautiful soul, Indi, came to me 12 years ago. I’d already stopped riding then, thankfully so our relationship has always been one of honesty. But his life before that was not so good. He was made a racehorse and then a toy for the equestrian sport, so he had some health concerns when he first came. Over time, and with proper care he has healed , and at 26 years old he still joins in NHE lessons and plays with the other horses

If I had ridden him, would he be so healthy and vibrant at this age?

If I only valued him because I could ride him, and in his older age stop the riding, would I stop seeing his worth?

But because to me, a horse is not an object to be ridden, Indi is treated now no differently to how he would be if he was young.
This is because his value is not based on the strength of his back or limbs ...

Sascha Green, NHE Australian Representative and Indi

07/08/2021

LOVE IT!

06/21/2021

RAFTERY HAS HIGH RINGBONE, left pastern. This is his future. This is what arthritis does to their bones. FEED THEM NO GRAIN!!!!!!!!! EVER! It accelerates the degeneration of the bone. The flare we are dealing with came from a few months of wheat hidden in a supplement. My goal is to dissolve these boney structures before they ever get here. With nutrition, and other modalities designed to suspend the laying down of bone.