Answers Straight From The Horses Mouth!
While out tending my horses with my son the other day, we got into a conversation about what exactly is the strict definition of an ‘arm’. Don’t ask why—this is just the kind of conversations we like to have! In any case, he was trying to suggest that you could call the forelegs of any …
I was out tending the horses with my son the other day, and one of our horses was very interested in my back pockets. I thought he was just being excited and boisterous for a while, until I finally checked my pocket and realized there was a couple of old mints in there. I was …
One of my horses has been getting a bit old recently, and it’s sad because he is one of my oldest horse friends. I’ve been riding him for two decades, so it’s been really hard to see him slow down a little bit. Nonetheless, his health and welfare are the most important thing to me, …
Gazing into my horse’s eyes is one of my favorite things to do. They express so many emotions and allow me to truly understand what he’s thinking and feeling. They say the eyes are the window to the soul, and it is no different for horses. In humans, our eyes can be a wide range …
The other day I was grooming my horse and lifted his leg to clean his hoof. He was fighting me, and I told him to stop and bend his knee so I could get it done. One of my friends walked by and said, “that’s not his knee; it’s his wrist.” As you can imagine, …