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Leadership or Connection? Which would you choose?
We often get told we need to be the horses leader, or in some cases that we need to be ‘The Boss’. This can set up a whole bunch of...
Successful Loading Part 4 - Getting Ready to Travel
So in the last 3 blogs I have looked at the basics of loading, building confidence and building motivation to load. In this blog I’d like...
Successful Loading Part 3 - Building Motivation
Building Motivation 😁💪 In part 1 we looked at the basics of loading and in part 2 we looked at how to build your horses confidence on...
Successful Loading, part 2 - Building Confidence
In my previous blog I said there were two main reasons horses don’t load He’s scared He just doesn’t want to with a possible (less...
Successful Loading and Travelling Part 1
You don't need a special headcollar to load your horse (but sometimes it helps!) There are two main reasons a horse doesn't go into the...
Spooky Horses, part 3 - Horses that are tense and on adrenaline
These horses are spooky because they simply have too much nervous energy and don't know how to direct it. These are the ones that you...
Spooky Horses, part 2 - Horses that are scared of 'things'
For this blog I’m going to look at the horse that is frightened of ‘things’ 😱😱 These horses are genuinely frightened of 'stuff' noise,...
On behaviour training and pain
Now here is a tricky subject and one that I have and still do spend countless hours discussing and thinking about. Unfortunately horses...
Assess your horse - the Scared Horse
Is your horse tense and scared? Or is he confident and playful? Answering these simple questions will give you a lot of information on...
Assess your horse - the Confident Horse
Is your horse tense and scared? Or is he confident and playful? Answering these simple questions will give you a lot of information on...