Horse Behavior
Tips for Halter Training Foals
Have a foal due this spring? Congratulations! There’s nothing quite like an equine youngster to add happiness, fun, and a…
How Horses Communicate Pain
Besides not being able to talk, horses are flight animals and have an instinctual ability to hide pain. So, how…
Tips for When a Horse Hates Being Groomed
When a horse hates being groomed, it can make life difficult. One such horse presented a classic case of “chestnut…
Podcast Episode #11: Sports psychology for riders, clinician and liberty trainer, and clicker training for March 22, 2022 from Title Sponsor Straight Arrow Products
In the 11th episode of The Horse Illustrated Episode of Horses in the Morning, sponsored by Title Sponsor Straight Arrow…
Playing Hard to Get: How to Train a Hard-to-Catch Horse
With halter in hand, you open the gate to your horse’s paddock. You are in a hurry since the farrier…
Vet Adventures: As Destiny Would Have It
When a vet goes on a call about a difficult horse, the volatile mare takes charge, at least until gravity…
What Horses Really Want
This excerpt from What Horses Really Want by Lynn Acton is adapted and reprinted with permission from Trafalgar Square Books…
Voice Recognition: How Horses Respond to Voice
Does your horse eagerly whinny when you call to him, or is he silently holding a grudge from last week’s…
The Puzzling Horse Feeder
When presented with a new challenge, does your horse give up, or is he a regular MacGyver? In the first experiment…
Rescue? Me?—A Sudden Realization Creates a Change in Horse Training Tactics
I never thought in a million years I would open an equine sanctuary in my mid-50s and that I would…