Debs' Horse World

03/09/2026

Spent some time with the c**t today.
He had a bit of fun running around & going silly.
Still stopped when asked, & behaved in my personal space.
Young ones are growing up well.
& the mares are just happy grazing.
The stallion was so well behaved while I was pulling burrs out of his mane & just giving him some attention.
They are all progressing really well with their training.

01/09/2026

So I woke up this morning & found my keys in my front door.
Wasn't like that when I went to sleep.
Some of my padlock keys are missing.....
I put cameras out at the paddock yesterday with these paddocks.

Really am through dealing with these thieves ey.

01/09/2026

So she's going ne up the ramp from the side, curled herself around the wall to get in, ate the feed she left in their, then saw me from the side & backed off.
As you can see, the other mare is not interested in anything that's not get grass.
The others are all like, ooohh something's going on, we're having a gig
Then there's the human spectators commenting as always.

01/09/2026

Yep
Not.probpem going into float....
Until she sees movement behind her ey.

29/08/2026

https://youtu.be/rOsn2i6oSps?si=xOx9l9q_l6ZigpyN

Make sure you hear the real message. I'm not against brushing hors...

29/08/2026

Ya know what I like about Daniel Dauphin Horsemanship, Warwick Schiller, Clinton Anderson Downunder Horsemanship ???

When you listen to them talk, all of them say it's the way they train.
They all say things like using my method, or the way I do things, or to help your horse understand.
I have never heard them say "you should, should not," do blahblah blah.
Without saying it's their way.

How many reels, clinics, etc have you seen or been to, where the author is telling you how to move yourself and the horse to get the best result?
How many have that attitude of do it this way or you are wrong?? You are instantly ruining your horse... Etc etc.

I have my own way of training.
It can take me a long time to get a horse to realise what I am doing.
When they do, when it clicks in, the horse realises I am not like the others.
I do not force them to submit to me.
I am their boss.
I am just the boss who asks and receives.
Sometimes with some questions first.
I always get what I want from them.
They do this, because I use gentle pressure by matching equal force.

I walked over to My Grand Daughters c**t the other day. With a random bucket of feed after he watched all the other horses being fed.
I looked at him approaching me, signalled him to stop, pointed in the opposite direction to where his head was facing.
He backed up in a straight line until I told him to stop.... He instantly got his feed.

I do stuff different.
It now sets him up for backing while mounted, it teaches him to trust me to tell him it's safe to go there without looking.
It shows him he gets a reward when he listens.
BTW, most times a reward is a pat or scratch of the sweet spot.
When I bring him in,
He will learn how to bear weight and because he's already been rugged, cinches & girths will be less of a problem.
It's the little things I do along the way that forms the foundation of an intelligent, safe horse to ride.

When others handle them & break the human trust, it takes a whole lot longer to get them in and mounted.
When a horse is not perfect on the ground freelance, then IN MY OPINION it's Gunna be a lot longer to get them to be a truly great safe mount.

28/08/2026

Ya know how it's always good to show the movement & confirmation of ya horses......
Mud monster was running around showing off,
Until I turned the video on ey.

28/08/2026

Just chilling out in the paddock

27/08/2026

Bit wet & muddy atm.
Horses are ok though.

23/08/2026

I was trying to get photos of my grandaughters' mud monster.
Two attempts & both times he turns and walks to me.
Then he walks away & has a scratch.
When we wanna catch them they won't have a bar of us, when we want them to stand still they just want attention....
Funny critters that they are ey.