Answers Straight From The Horses Mouth!
I’ve been trying to convince my son to come horse riding with me recently, and it’s been like pulling teeth. He said he wanted to go but he couldn’t, and wouldn’t tell me why. Eventually, I managed to get out of him that his friends at school had told him riding horses was girly, and …
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, …
Me and my family were out tending to our horses the other day when suddenly my son asked me a question I wasn’t expecting. He asked me if horses had nipples. He’s at the age where he’s curious about virtually everything, so I wasn’t that surprised. I was pretty sure they did, I told him, …