Horses are incredible teachers. Those of us who live with them already know this. But even people who haven’t spent a lot of time around horses can be changed in profound ways just by getting to know one. Such...
The Mustang preview shows horses grazing peacefully on a vast plain; one picks his head up to look at something. Suddenly, the whole herd breaks into a gallop. Gradually the camera zooms out and the volume increases as we...
I was drawing up my vaccine doses for a farm call while the barn owner, a nervous woman named Lauralee, was fussily catching horses and moving them to their individual stalls for their checkups and spring shots. The farm...
You know those days when everything goes wrong? You miss the lead change during a big competition. Your horse spooks and you fall off. He refuses to cross the creek, or won’t load on the trailer. Maybe you arrive...
A familiar storyline in fiction is a protagonist going to the ends of the earth to be with the one he or she loves. In real life, Kasia Bukowska, an equestrian artist, said goodbye to family, friends, and Los...
Sometimes all it takes is a moment—a glance down at a map, a slight miscalculation—to profoundly change your life forever. It was just such a moment in January 2010 that put avid rider Amberley Snyder’s life on a new...
Concussions have been in the limelight recently. The 2015 Golden Globe-nominated film "Concussion” starring Will Smith highlighted the health concerns stemming from repeated head trauma among National Football League (NFL) players.But according to studies, there are an average...
One commonality among horse people of all kinds is the desire we all have to develop a good relationship or bond with our horse. Not only does a good horse-human relationship improve our equine interactions, it can also be...
Barb Wells is a certified equine shiatsu massage therapist. Barb demonstrates a few tips in a horse stretches video that you can try with your horse.These stretches are intended to maintain flexibility and mobility in the horse's muscles, ligaments,...
My hands were shaking, but I couldn’t let my clients see, or they might lose confidence in me. Clients don't want a nervous veterinarian. That would probably finish me off.Some days, I was totally fine; calm and confident when...
