Equinine Behavioural Practice

08/07/2025

08/07/2025

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08/07/2025

07/07/2025

Until you’ve conditioned the word, ‘no’ has absolutely no meaning whatsoever to your puppy.

As a child we learn what ‘no’ means from our parents as they use it along with a negative consequence, either removing us from something or something from us, then as we get older they may reason us out of doing something but generally, it’s a case of “no, don’t do that” or “no, don’t do that because...”

Unfortunately, your puppy has absolutely no concept of reasoning and neither will your adult dog.

The part of the brain that deals with reasoning and starts to develop in us when we’re about three years old doesn’t, and never will, exist in the canine brain. This is why we have to be absolutely consistent with what we tell our dogs to do and why we have to be very black and white with no shades of grey.

An excerpt of Manners not Mayhem (2018)
by L*z Graham MA.

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28/06/2025

✨You won’t always feel brave.
✨You won’t always feel ready.
But if you showed up today — in the saddle, in the moment, in the mess — that counts.

✨Not every day needs to be a breakthrough.
✨Some days, just being there is the breakthrough.

The ride might not be pretty.
Your confidence might wobble.
But progress is built in the quiet consistency of just not quitting.

🙌🏽So if all you did today was show up — you’re still moving forward.
And that is more than enough.

28/06/2025

Yes!

25/06/2025

21/06/2025

21/06/2025