Here we go again. This time a mustang (wild horse) trainer who is apparently well known and respected feels it necessary to use aggressive training methods and can even be seen kicking this previously wild horse. What on earth does she think she is going to solve using these outdated methods of training? This is…
The Horse Feed
The Tragedy of Animal Rescue
By Julia Hyde Animal Rescue, the rescue, shelter and care of horses, dogs, cats or any other animal in need, is not played out like a soap opera that focuses on melodrama and sentimentality. Neither does it jump from one dramatic storyline to another on a weekly basis to keep deeply caring animal…
What We Are Not! The Dubious Tactics of Some Horse Rescues
I’ve been wanting to write to you all about the subject of mass bailing horse rescues that prey on the kindness of well-meaning people asking them to donate huge amounts of money so they can, in their words, stop horses from shipping to slaughter among other horrific outcomes. It’s a scam! Pure and simple, and we…
How To Make A Killing At A Horse Auction
Calling Out The Mass Bailing Horse Rescues I’ve been reading about how the well-meaning people are being asked to give away their hard earned money by a few mass bailing rescues at (so called) kill pens. So for anyone who is in ANY doubt about these so-called horse rescues and their legitimacy, here is some…
Five Ways to Combat Anxiety and Fear of Riding
If you ride horses the chances are you’ve experienced a bolt out of the blue. Or put another way, your horse sees or hears something that scares him, his flight trigger kicks in and he’s off running as fast as he can. If you’re lucky (or have a butt made of velcro) you’ll stay in the…
The Wild Ones – Captured By the U.S Forest Service in Cahoots with the BLM!
They arrived one afternoon crammed together in a battered horse trailer with numbered tags hanging loosely around their necks. We knew they were coming — after all we’d paid a whopping $25 each for them. We knew they were older mares, we knew they were pregnant, and we knew they were as wild as, well,…