A few months ago I read Bill Dorrance’s text book sized work, True Horsemanship Through Feel. At nearly 400 pages, it was a lot to take in. But I took away an awful lot of ideas. The main one was obviously “feel.” The things I read about feel helped me work with leading Bear and… Read more »
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Swollen Ankles
While I was grooming Bear at the hitching post he was very fidgety. It was a warm day and I have no doubt the bugs were the culprit. But there could have been more. While going over his legs I noticed that the area just above his hind ankles was rather swollen. They did not… Read more »
Sweaty Rides
Yesterday was 90! We usually only hit 90 a handful of times in July and August each year, to get it in May is crazy. And with the cold spring we’ve had it felt like we missed the wonderful late spring/early summer weather and moved right into the bleghs of late August. I shouldn’t complain… Read more »
More Learning
Thursday was more or less and nice repeat of Wednesday. Except Robin came, so I wasn’t pretending to be anything other than myself. It was sunny and very, very windy. Sham was lethargic on the lead line and that gave me a little bit of trouble. We are changing some of our groundwork tactics with… Read more »
Vacation Homework
Sham has been a little tough lately. He is certain that he is the boss, and as a result, I can’t catch him. So in my frustration (which nicely coincided with some vacation time in sunny Arizona) I went back to some of the training books we have around the house to see what I… Read more »