Category Archives: Horse Leadership

Posts referring to training the horse the know you are the leader. Horses need to know in every encounter who the leader is. It’s a life and death instinct for them. If you don’t quickly establish yourself as the leader, your horse will become the leader for that encounter. It’s a new question for every encounter but over time your horse can learn that you are always the leader. Or so we’re told.

Love Bites, Horse Style

Posted on November 13, 2006 by Mikki

Someone recently commented on Bill’s post about our horses trying to eat our fingers, and it occurred to me that I really ought to address the issue of horse bites. Yes, horses do bite; some more than others. Usually, it’s … Continue reading →

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Watch Your Head!

Posted on May 26, 2006 by Mikki

After being stepped on a couple of times, it appears that I’m paying too much attention to the horses’ feet and not enough to their heads. The other day, we were doing our usual carefully choreographed routine to get both … Continue reading →

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Bill takes over horse duties for the day

Posted on March 24, 2006 by Bill

Mikki is sick today and it’s cold and wet outside here in East Tennessee. So today I’ll be handling horse duties. All bundled up, I went out to let Valentine out of his stall. I would have preferred to open … Continue reading →

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The Big Day!

Posted on March 12, 2006 by Mikki

Okay, I spent several days comparing the picture in the catalog, the pictures we took of Valentine all tacked up when we met him, and every other picture of a horse with bridle on I could find, and decided that … Continue reading →

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Gotta Love Those Infomercials

Posted on February 28, 2006 by Mikki

Tonight we attended a workshop presented by Purina (Purina Horse Owner’s Workshop: http://horse.purinamills.com/). We were pretty sure it was going to be a live infomercial for Purina Horse Chow – and they pushed their horse feed pretty hard – but … Continue reading →

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