The Touch of Dust Horse Training

22/07/2024

Welcome to the monopoly s**t show.

05/07/2024

I think I could turn and live awhile with the animals… they are so placid and
self-contained. I stand and look at them sometimes half the day long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition. They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins. They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God. Not one is dissatisfied… not one is demented with the mania of owning things. Not one kneels to another nor to its kind that lived thousands of years ago. Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth.

Walt Whitman

23/05/2024

Our place🤠🥰

29/05/2022

One of the most important and kindness things you can teach your horse is how to flex properly.

11/10/2020

Whiskey

11/10/2020

11/10/2019

Mules are awesome 🤠

28/09/2019

The sending exercise. Sometimes known as lunging for respect. It's not about how many times the horse can go in a circle. It's about changing its direction. Getting control of the horses feet and paying attention to you. On a loose rope preferably.

22/09/2019

Sweat is a good way to shed stupidity.

In order to get a horse to think, instead of reacting. First need to get their feet to moving. With the feet moving, the lungs go to work. When the lungs are working hard, they'll start talking to the brain to start thinking.

19/08/2019

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please help save the horses. Too many are being sent to slaughter because of Facebook new rules.

Keep animal rescue groups on Facebook

31/07/2019

When working with a problemed horse.

26/07/2019

18/07/2019

Met with Logan and his partner, Judith this morning. Good folks they are with a good foundation based on love and kindness between them.
Logan is a kind soul and has a willingness to learn. As gentle as he is, he has just a bit of nervousness due to the uncertainty of leadership. A horse instinctively requires a leader. If you are not the leader, then the horse will feel that they have to be the leader. And many times that isn't so good for the human. Think about the wild mustang. It's an older experienced mare that is the leader of the herd.
So today is the first day of an amazingly new chapter for Logan and Judith. I look forward to witnessing their growth and riding on the trail with them.

05/06/2019

This is the truth folks. If you love horses the way you say you do, you'll read this to the end.

If we could only make this truth fully understood in the horse world, how much time and trouble would horses, buyers, owners and trainers save? Fewer horses would be mishandled, misunderstood and e…

02/06/2019

We are asked almost daily if we can take in someone’s older horse that they can no longer keep or care for. We get calls asking if we can take the navicular mare, the old blind pony, the 35 year old gelding that can’t hold weight. I always tell them how no one will ever love their horse like they do, and that the best place for it is with them, even if it means having it euthanized.

I want to share this experience because it has helped me see euthanasia in a different way. In the picture you can see a backhoe in the back of the pasture. This is our 80 acre sanctuary that can have up to 40 horses, most waiting for a spot with a trainer, but several that are not adoptable. The volunteer in the picture is leading two horses to be put down, one with heaves, the other DSLD. Two horses had already been put down and are lying next to the hole. Sounds horrific right, to think their buddies are there watching. It was muddy and the field we usually bury horses was unaccessible so we didn't have a choice. I don't handle euthanasia very well but who does right? The grulla mare in this picture was especially hard for us. She was totally wild and untrusting when we first got her over a year ago. We had finally earned her trust and she had become one of the sweetest and first to greet us. She trusted us, so how could we do this to her? She had heaves through the summer and we had discussed trying to move her up north but she's older, untrained....we made the decision to let her go.

This is the part I want to share. We walked the horses down to where the vet waited. All the horses by that time had gathered around and were busy checking out the vet's truck, the back hoe, some were grazing, but none seemed to know or care what was going on. Those that we handed over to the vet were calm as well. He sedated them, they went down just as if they were going to have a procedure. Then the medication was administered. They went to sleep. The grulla's best friend is the black horse that’s following her in the picture. As her friend was sedated, she continued to graze, no fear or concern for her friend. Another horse on the list with ring bone gimped over to me as we watched a horse be pts. I scratched his neck and loved on him. The vet handed me the halter and he continued to just stand there as I put it on. The vet sedated him and like the others, he just went to sleep. It occurred to me that this was so peaceful because they trusted us, they were in their safe place, not at a vet clinic or at an auction somewhere. I've seen horses euthanized that were severely injured or frightened and it was a traumatic experience for all involved. They are hypersensitive to what’s going on around them and it’s like they know. These horses did not. There was no fear. That is what gets to me the most about horse slaughter. Imagining the concern they have as their buddy goes before them in the chute, the horror is incomprehensible. If only they could all be saved the cruel treatment that horses endure beginning at auction. Letting them go peacefully where they feel safe is ultimately the best gift we can give them.

If your horse is advanced in age, unsound, or infirm, and you can no longer keep it, please consider one last gesture of caring.... letting it leave this earth in the comfort and serenity of its home.

01/06/2019

OUCH!!!

28/05/2019

According to:
Brook Ledge Horse Transportation
November 11, 2014 ·
War Horses. Highly trained, and against all their instincts these Horses will lay still during a battle. This is an example of an incredible trust and bond between Man and animal. THANK YOU to our Veterans, 2 and 4 legged for your service!!!

27/05/2019

The incredible magic when two souls touch.