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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 âThe Bossâ. 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 Iâd like...
Successful Loading Part 3 - Building Motivation
Building Motivation đđȘ 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 donât load Heâs scared He just doesnât 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 4 - Horses that get Distracted
Horses that get Distracted đđđ€Ș These guys are the ones people often get frustrated with because theyâre just not paying attention and...
Spooky Horses, part 2 - Horses that are scared of 'things'
For this blog Iâm going to look at the horse that is frightened of âthingsâ đ±đ± These horses are genuinely frightened of 'stuff' noise,...
Finding Neutral - the key to relaxation
In dressage the second step in the scale of training is âRelaxationâ, relaxation of the body or physical relaxation is often discussed...
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...
