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LS Horsemanship, Stokesley (2025)

21/08/2025

Riding is a privilege 🐴

One of the biggest contributing factors to poor welfare within the industry is this idea that horses are there to ride and that is their sole purpose and use. That if a horse possesses a back and isn’t dog lame then its fine to sit on them and that is our right, that’s what they’re for after all. I do not see horses in this way and I do not think we can be ethical if we continue to view horses through this lens.

Now don’t get me wrong, I love riding, but not at the expense of the horse.

Horses are not designed to be ridden and need careful, considerate training to prepare them to carry weight. Add to that the normalised ways of riding coerce horses into damaging postures and compensatory movement patterns that are causing wear and tear on their already compromised body. Much of the riding that we see today is taking from the horse.

Physical concerns aside, we have completely normalised chronically stressed horses, many horses live without their basic needs being met of socialisation, access to appropriate forage and freedom to move. Many horses are frequently moved on to new homes, being pulled away from everything they know repeatedly and having no control over what happens to them. This can be traumatic.

And then we’re back to the training methods of applying pressure until the horse does what we want, when the horse may not be in a space to be able to cope with training at all, so then we have to use more pressure. We now have a horse who has a very negative association with being ridden.

We’re riding horses who don’t want us to catch them in from the field when they see us.
We’re riding horses who move to the back of the box when they see their tack.
We’re riding horses we have to pin against a wall to mount.
We’re riding horses who are still nervous of us on the ground.
We’re riding horses who have “a bit of soreness” in their back every time the bodyworker sees them.

It is so normalised that the horse is there to ride, that we don’t see how illogical it is to get on their back when they’re clearly communicating they aren’t okay with this. Most of my clients who aren’t currently riding their horses, but happen to be on livery yards with others, are being constantly pressured to get back on their horses despite being perfectly happy with what they’re doing and minding their own business.

Riding is for us, not for the horse, and I think it is a privilege to be earned by building that relationship up with our horse and being considerate of their bodies.

I’d love to hear about what your favourite things are to do with your horses that don’t involve riding?

I’ll give you a few of mine.

🐴 I love sitting under the tree out on our track and just hanging out with the horses while they graze around me.

🐴 I love setting up enrichment playgrounds for my horses and watching them work out the puzzles and enjoy themselves.

🐴 I love taking my horses for hand walks and letting them forage through the hedgerows.

What are yours? 🐴

19/08/2025

I love this moody weather, I really don’t enjoy the heat. The boys are enjoying some time out of their fly rugs with the wind, it’s definitely feeling a bit autumnal today. 🍂

What’s your favourite season with your horses? I definitely love Autumn but Spring is a close second.

18/08/2025

Confidence Around Horses 🐴

Being nervous around horses and riding is very common, they are large animals that can potentially hurt us. The trap we fall into is believing there is something wrong with us and we just need to be braver and learn to push through and then all will be well. I’ve got really good news for you, you do not need to be brave to be confident and safe around horses. What you do need to develop is patience, the ability to regulate your own emotions and good observational skills.

It is entirely logical to feel nervous around horses and riding them when you’ve had frightening experiences. There is nothing wrong with you. We are told very early on that “horses are unpredictable”. I disagree, horses are very predictable once you learn to read and understand equine behaviour. I see so many falls and explosions that would have been completely preventable if it had been recognised that the horse wasn’t feeling okay and the situation had been de-escalated before it got to that point.

There is a sort of stoic “just get on with it” mentality that seeps throughout the equine world which is rarely good for us or our horses. Working in opposition with a horse is very unlikely to build your confidence and is in fact more likely to result in scary behaviour.

I had been working with a client of mine to steadily build their confidence jumping, they were jumping grids and small, simple jumps within their ability happily and decided to try a fun clinic advertised for all levels. It was all going well until the trainer encouraged them to jump something bigger with a substantial filler underneath, my client repeatedly said they weren’t comfortable but they were pressured with “it’ll be fine! You’ll feel great once you do it!”. So they eventually attempted the jump despite really not wanting to, the horse backed off because he could feel the tension, he almost stopped then jumped awkwardly getting yanked in the mouth then the rider slamming down on his back and falling off as they didn’t have the balance or strength to stay on an awkward jump like that yet. They were both set up to fail by well-meaning encouragement and their confidence took a huge knock, it just shouldn’t have happened, yet this happens all the time and we then blame ourselves for not being good or brave enough.

It can be extremely hard to navigate when you’re feeling so anxious and everyone has their well-meaning advice. I would recommend to find someone to help you who doesn’t make you feel scared, the trust will be built over time if they keep setting you and your horse up to succeed and then they will be able to push you gently when its appropriate. Have a look at their own horses/other clients and see if things seem quiet and relaxed, or is there a lot of conflict and stress going on? The industry at large is still terrible at reading behaviour and recognising stress in horses, training and riding should not feel scary to you or your horse.

I talk often about breaking things down into the smallest steps when training our horses, we need to do the same for ourselves. That 90cm show jumping course or that 2 hour solo hack stop looking so out of reach when we break things down enough and just focus on enjoying the journey.

While these things may help with your feelings of anxiety, no amount of breathing exercises, herbal remedies or therapy can replace developing a good understanding of equine behaviour so you aren’t setting yourself up to fail in the first place. Horses can be enjoyable for everyone and they can enjoy being with us too. 🐴

16/08/2025

Such a lovely group of horses at the Wheathall Farm obstacle clinic this morning, what a bunch of cool guys 😎

Learning to build confidence with positive reinforcement.

Availability at your own yard for August/September 🐴

14/08/2025

Advocacy Is Uncomfortable 🐴

The more I learn about horse behaviour and their bodies, the stronger my ethics become. I know many of us are on a path to improving equine welfare within the industry and I know we’re all at different points on that path.

I am well-aware that my ethics seem extreme to many in an industry where high-stress behaviour has been normalised and that still primarily sees horses as things to use and dominate. I am also realistic in that I know radical change isn’t going to happen overnight and that there is a huge in-between space to fill here.

There is an accepted tendency in the industry to put human feelings above horse welfare that leaves me with a sour taste in my mouth. I strongly believe that as professionals we have a responsibility to, tactfully, advocate for the horses we come into contact with, even if that conversation is going to be uncomfortable and potentially fall on deaf ears. Horses cannot advocate for themselves, someone has got to be their voice.

It is extremely common for me to go out to a horse for behavioural issues to find a horse that is very clearly in no physical (or emotional) state to carry a rider at this time, and find out they have been seen by a vet, perhaps multiple bodyworkers, instructors and a saddler. And not one of those professionals has voiced any concern about the horse being in ridden work. Now one of two things is happening here, either the professionals genuinely don’t see any issue because it is so normalised within the industry that a horse is fine to sit on as long as they’re not dog-lame and they possess a back, or, they do think there’s an issue but didn’t want to upset the client so they didn’t advocate for the horse. I’m not sure which one is worse.

Uncomfortable conversations are not fun, sometimes you do get a lot of defensive push-back, but as long as you are calm, tactful and can explain your reasoning thoroughly you will be able to advocate for that horse. Maybe you will lose the client, maybe they will feel relief as they’ve been waiting for someone to say this for a long time or maybe they will go away and sit with it for a while and eventually act on it. I think what is really important to understand as professionals is that sometimes by not commenting our silence is taken as approval, we cannot talk in vague riddles and assume the client understands, we must be straightforward. Saying the back/topline is poor isn’t enough, if the horse isn’t in a place to carry a rider healthily then you must say this.

Another scenario I come across frequently on my travels are horses that are clearly lame/in pain being ridden in lessons and clinics. I witnessed a very blatantly lame horse being ridden in a pole clinic, at one point she even stumbled to her knees, the instructor laughed about her being “clumsy” and they continued. In my head I’m thinking this instructor must recognise that this horse is lame, but maybe they don’t, both options are extremely concerning.

Someone I know was telling me a story about a clinic she was at with a very well-respected dressage trainer that she adored. They were telling me how someone rode into one of the lessons on a very obviously lame horse and how terrible this person was and blah blah. And I asked what the trainer said, and she said nothing, they taught the whole lesson without mentioning the horse was lame. She then defended the trainer when I questioned this saying that they didn’t want to upset the organisers as it was some relation of theirs. If a big name trainer like this can’t quietly pull someone to one side and say “oh no your horse looks a bit off today, maybe he slipped in the field, lets postpone until he’s feeling better”, then what hope do we have? You don’t have to stand and berate someone. By saying nothing you are enabling this and creating the environment we’re stuck in now where everybody is too scared to hurt people’s feelings or be ostracised so they do not advocate for the horse.

I’m sure people think that all of my clients are pony-hugging idiots who just feed their horses treats all day (I am describing myself here) but I actually have several clients who are still competing at fairly significant levels and working professionally in the industry themselves. We have very open conversations about our differing ethics, and it is really interesting to have those conversations, watch them soften over time and watch them start to recognise more and more stress/pain behaviour when they’re out at shows and clinics and express their discomfort. These people are the ones who are going to create that much-needed middle ground that is going to improve welfare within the sport.

I am at a point where I will walk away from clients rather than go against my ethics, this is where things become muddied for many professionals as they have bills to pay. But, for me personally, it is not worth the emotional toll of compromising my morals, some people may think I’m too sensitive or pathetic but it genuinely affects and upsets me to see horses in distress and not being treated kindly. If needs be I will find other sources of income, but of course continue to hope that there will be more and more need of ethical, horse-centred professionals.

There is no conclusion to this post, I just wanted to open a discussion and see how others felt about and are navigating this. I’d also love to hear of any experiences people have had where a professional has raised concerns about your horse that you were unaware of, how they approached it and how you felt about that. 🐴

12/08/2025

A Horse Is A Horse 🐴

A horse’s breed or type is often used to explain away a behaviour as “just how they are” but I find most of the time there are management practices or training that could be addressed to improve things. Sometimes what we see as personality traits are actually the result of needs not being met or a horse not coping with the way they are being trained.

Is the horse naturally sharp and explosive because of their breed, or are they sharp and explosive because they don’t get adequate turnout, are fed high energy feed and find their training stressful?

Is the horse naturally lazy and stubborn or are they being asked to do work that their body finds difficult and have learned to ignore pressure through ineffective training due to their quiet nature?

You often see horses advertised as “not your typical Thoroughbred”, but I have yet to meet a Thoroughbred that meets the Thoroughbred stereotype once they have their needs met and are trained quietly. Could it be that its not the breeding but the management and high stress lifestyles that create the myth?

I used to know a very high-end competition horse who was labelled sharp and quirky due to his breeding, he was lead in a chain everywhere. He was never allowed turnout “in case he hurt himself”, he lived in a stable where his only view was the wall, he couldn’t even see another horse let alone interact with one and the only time he had space to move more than 12 feet in a straight line was when he was being ridden in the arena in draw reins. The only rolling he could do was in the bedding in his small stable. This horse was very friendly and affectionate with people because his only interaction or stimulation in life was people coming into his stable throughout the day. Sharp and quirky? Or mentally ill?

Warmbloods are bred to be athletic and energetic but that doesn’t mean they should need to be lunged into the ground to be safe to ride or have to be ridden in harsh equipment to keep them under control. There are dozens of amateur teenage girls successfully jumping their warmbloods tackless on social media, they haven’t just chanced upon some rare quiet ones, its all in the management and training.

I see quite a lot of Highland ponies, they are usually labelled lazy, bargy and stubborn and that its just their nature because they’re bred to be so strong. But they can be just as soft and responsive as any other breed if we train them appropriately and slowly build their bodies to be capable of the things we’re asking them to do. It takes two to pull. These quiet breeds are often very quickly desensitised to pressure through poor training, they’re easier to be harsh with as they’re less reactive and when they start to shut down it is labelled as laziness.

Now I’m not saying horses don’t have different personalities or that breeds don’t lean towards different traits and qualities. I am saying that your warmblood isn’t bucking because they’re a warmblood and your cob isn’t “lazy” because they’re a cob. We can get trapped in these limiting narratives and it can prevent us from seeing the bigger picture and realising we can help our horses feel and perform better.

All horses have the same basic needs of freedom, forage, friends and feeling safe. All breeds can make great friends when you meet their needs and treat them with respect and kindness. 🐴

Pictured is one of my rare-breed horses, the lesser-known "Cutie Patootie", so lucky to have two of them 🥰🥰

10/08/2025

How do you make your horse feel? 🐴

There are so many actions we perceive as kindness as our intentions are good, but our intentions really don’t matter if the horse isn’t experiencing it that way. We can be quite abrupt and disrespectful around our horses without even realising it, it is the way many of us have been taught to be around horses and we probably don’t even notice the effect its having, I know I didn’t.

Sometimes we can be the equivalent to our horses of a person coming into your room, immediately starting to shout at you, asking repeated contradictory questions without waiting for your answers and then smacking you on the neck while calling you a good boy. Please understand when I talk about shouting, I mean figuratively “loud”, yanking on the halter, moving quickly, missing behavioural cues, having intense energy and being very abrupt in our asks.

I was stood with a client’s very sensitive, anxious horse a while ago, and her lovely friend came over to see him. She went straight up to him and started patting him on the neck while loudly telling him what a good boy he is. The horse raised his head, his eyes were on stalks and he was clearly uncomfortable and worried, and yet the person was completely oblivious to how she’d just made the horse feel. Her intentions were good, she is a lovely person, but the horse did not enjoy that at all, it actually made him really anxious and he definitely didn’t perceive it as something pleasant.

If a horse hates being touched or is frightened of people, being stroked or scratched is not going to be something they enjoy. Forcing a horse to accept touch because it makes us feel good to do so is definitely not kind. I often see horses turn their head away to try and disengage with the situation, only to be pulled back and then have their face petted as “praise”. The horse couldn’t have made it any clearer they do not want that touch, and we’re basically saying “this is happening whether you like it or not, because I’ve decided you’re supposed to like it.”

So much of horse training seems to be about making the horse compliant and saying its good for the horse. It leaves me with a sour taste in my mouth seeing a horse intensely stressed by the training and treated harshly, then forcibly petted/praised at the end of it, or even during it, so we can tell ourselves the training is kind. How would you feel about someone touching you after they’d spent the last 10 minutes intimidating/frightening you? You probably wouldn’t appreciate their praise or touch and you’d probably feel pretty confused.

If we can listen to the horse when he is expressing his discomfort, make our training quiet and predictable and prioritise the horse’s comfort levels so we are setting them up to succeed, we will start to have a horse who feels much more relaxed around us, rather than just going along with it because he feels he has to.

When we know how common it is for horses to have pain or discomfort in their bodies and how taxing all of the things we ask them to do can be, it is a wonder horses let us be anywhere near them at all. Horses are so observant while we move through life with our frantic energy and often don’t really observe the horse at all beyond whether or not he is doing what we want him to. It is so common to see horses scowling or uncomfortable and the person will just continue what they’re doing with either no acknowledgement, or worse will punish the horse for that communication.

Lets endeavour to treat our horses with the respect they deserve instead of feeling entitled to their bodies just because somebody decided we are. Next time you’re with your horse just hang out and gently try to touch them in different areas and really watch their face and see how they feel about it. It’s amazing how much your relationship can change once they realise you are going to listen. 🐴

Dan is very clear about enjoying his scratches 🥰

09/08/2025

The Illusion Of Safety 🐴

Safety is often the biggest justification people use for being rough and hard on horses. The idea that if we don’t square up to the horse and put them in their place they will hurt us. Any behaviour we deem undesirable on the ground is fixed by moving the horse’s feet and chasing them out of our space either backwards/sideways/forwards with a stick/rope/flag. I used to train like this, I was constantly driving horses away from me either by pushing their shoulders/quarters or sending them forward with pressure behind them.

I don’t treat horses like this anymore as I have come to realise it isn’t ethical or necessary. I now focus on getting the horse into a trainable state before we start asking questions and then setting them up to succeed so we don’t get into any dramas.

I have since realised that training for compliance and obedience like I used to can actually make horses more unsafe to be around. I’m going to tell you 3 little stories to give you some food for thought.

🐴 Years ago when I was training with strong pressure the horses I worked with would often kick back towards me when they spooked or exploded, I didn’t give it a huge amount of thought beyond “that’s just what horses do”, it didn’t occur to me their instinct was to kick back at me because I was the stressor always driving them away. I used to solve this by always disengaging the quarters and making the horse face me.

I haven’t thought about this much since I started training differently as I very rarely have horses explode like that around me anymore, however I was in the arena with Dan loose one day. I was stood halfway down the long side and he was at the far end of the arena. He spooked and came galloping down towards the gate, I winced and sort of cowered away from him as he was coming past worried he might kick back as he came past me because my brain was still thinking “that’s just what horses do naturally when they’re spooked”. To my surprise, despite him being really upset and stressed, he didn’t continue to the gate, he stopped dead right next to me and waited for me to reward him.

It seems so obvious looking back but this was a big penny drop moment for me. Why on earth would a horse want to kick back at me when they were “fresh” or stressed if they didn’t find my presence aversive?

🐴 I have a client who has a large 2yo, she was having trouble with her being pushy and hard to lead so she sought the help of a horsemanship trainer. He came out and showed her how to use a flag to make the filly “respect” her space, if she got too close she was told to flap the flag hard until she backed off and they did a lot of disengaging the quarters by flapping the flag towards them.

She did her homework diligently but the next week the filly had a spook, span away and then kicked out at her owner. She had never ever kicked at her before. Her owner expressed concerns to the trainer who told her that the filly was “testing her” and to be firmer. The next time she tried the filly got away from her and actually jumped out of the training space with the long lead rope trailing, it took her 20 minutes to be able to get near her to unclip the rope.

This filly didn’t need to learn “respect”, she was learning to navigate the world, finding everything a bit stressful and was now having a scary flag flapped at her by the person she used to feel safe around and couldn’t understand why. We have since done some work together around leading safely and learning to down-regulate before she feels the need to leave the situation and she is now leading quietly out on short walks off the property.

🐴 My last story is about a horse who came to one of my obstacle clinics, she was a large horse who came in with her eyes on stalks dragging her owner all over the place. Her owner said she had done similar obstacles before and the mare was obediently going over them by the end of the session after a lot of rearing and pulling. The horse wouldn’t even entertain standing near the tarpaulin and her owner was confused because in their other clinic the horse had been walking over it with “no issues” by the end.

What had actually happened was the horse had given up and complied but had such a horribly stressful experience they had created a really scary, negative association with the tarp. So on being presented to it again months later all the horse remembered was how scary and horrible it had been. Every time she tried to even get the horse within 10ft of the tarp she would barge very quickly and determinedly through her shoulder and leave without pausing.

I told her to stay well away from the tarp and we did some work with low value food rewards. When I felt she was calm enough I asked the owner to just walk as close to the tarp as she could without the mare trying to leave and feed her there. We finally got her to stand and wait rather than panic and leave. Eventually she took a step forward and we continued to reward until she was stood right in front of the tarp, loose rope, nice and straight and considered sniffing it. After a few more breaks she walked straight on and was happily searching for food on it, completely calm.

The previous training made this horse more reactive and dangerous because instead of thinking she would have time to assess, she assumed heavy pressure was going to be put on her straight away so she was just panicking and trying to leave.

There is a price to pay when we simply train for compliance, we are not benign to the horse in these interactions, the pressure is associated with us. I want my horses to look to me when they feel stressed or worried, not look to get away from me. If your horse is kicking back at you, running away from you or even going to the lengths of jumping out of the training area to get away from you, please re-think what you’re actually training and what kind of associations you’re creating. 🐴

Pictured is Paul getting to grips with the tarpaulin, obviously not the large horse in the story 😅

08/08/2025

How often do you check on your horses? 🐴

I used to keep my horses on full livery while I worked in London and probably saw them once a week at most, even when I came back into working with horses full time I would maybe see them 5 times a week and didn’t think much of it.

Since having my horses back up north on a private yard and seeing them twice a day or more every day for the past couple of years I realise how much I didn’t know my horses at all, I barely factored into their lives. 🥲

I now also have cameras so I see them when I first wake up at 6am, throughout the day in person, then I check them a few times throughout the evening until bed time. I know their routines, their habits and their normal behaviours. I know when it changes, I know when they’re unsettled, I know when they’re not in their normal sleeping pattern. I can’t imagine not being able to check on my horses so frequently now. I have learned so much about their personalities and preferences and to be honest watching my horses just be cute and exist on camera brings me daily joy.

I’m so curious as to what your routines are, do you have cameras? Very jealous of anyone lucky enough to have their horses at home with them.

Has anyone gone from a full livery situation to DIY? Do you feel its improved your relationship with your horse? 🐴

07/08/2025

Are we really helping the horse? 🐴

I’ve been struggling to put this into words that will make a coherent post for a while, I’m not sure I’ve been successful.

The more horses I meet and the more I learn about their bodies and behaviour the more I realise so much of the training we’re doing is inappropriate for them in that moment.

Today I’m not going to talk about the rough stuff, I want to talk about the gentle training, the slow stuff that appears to be putting the horse first, no explosions just quietly coaxing the horse along. Even when training like this, it can still be inappropriate.

The problem is, most behavioural issues are rooted in chronic stress and/or pain/discomfort.

When we simply train with pressure and release and keep repeating until the horse does the thing, most horses will give up and comply despite being uncomfortable or sore, even if that pressure is seemingly quiet and gentle. If we are persistent enough, even pressure we deem to be “soft” can be enough to make a horse comply to make it stop.

I have a client horse who started exploding under saddle and the rider fell badly. The horse was “cleared” by a vet after a generic lameness work up and they had a trainer out to help them re-back the horse. In the video they shared with me the saddlecloth was introduced rubbed along the horse’s back, the horse tried to walk away and was kept close to the trainer by a lead rope, the horse eventually stopped with a very tense face and tolerated the saddlecloth going on. This process was repeated with the saddle and then the girth. When they went to girth up the horse visibly flinched, so they did it over and over again and explained “he needs to learn its not going to hurt”. The problem is it was hurting and he was desperately trying to communicate this.

I went out to see this horse after he had thrown 2 further riders and referred him straight back to a vet because of all of the very blatant signs of pain he was showing, he was diagnosed with arthritis in his neck and grade 3 stomach ulcers. This horse also had extremely poor muscling over his whole body so regardless of his behaviour no professional should’ve been encouraging sitting on his back.

A lack of explosive behaviour is not a green flag to keep going. We are not listening well enough if we only listen once the horse is screaming at us. Its also no good recognising more subtle signs of stress if you choose to repeatedly ignore them and keep going because you can “show the horse its fine”.

So you're saying its always pain? Yes, no, maybe 🥲. I try to use the word discomfort. Which can mean the obvious kinds of pain in the body we think of, but that can also mean emotional discomfort from training the horse is finding too stressful or physical discomfort from being ridden in uncomfortable postures or asked to do inappropriate levels of work for where their body is at right now. Sometimes all of the above.

This isn’t meant to be a doom and gloom post, perhaps just planting a seed to really look at what we’re doing with our horses when trying to “fix” behavioural issues.

I just wonder how these horses may improve if, instead of going straight to behavioural modification, we just backed off, prioritised their emotional state by getting their daily living situation as stable and low-stress as we can giving them chance to down-regulate, then re-introduced the training scenario in a completely different way to build new, positive associations. Then we would have a base to work from and see what's really going on underneath. Maybe with some time like this and some gentle movement to improve their posture some of those chronic tension/soreness patterns in the body would go away.

We need to be looking at everything, management, social life, nutrition, posture, hoof balance, emotional health, previous history etc, instead we are “problem-solving” behavioural issues by taking a horse into a training space and teaching them to be obedient when pressure is applied, everything else is an after-thought.

Horse doesn’t like the saddle? Keep putting the saddle on and off until they give up and stand still
Horse won’t go forward? Keep nagging with legs/stick until they take a step forward
Horse won’t stand at the mounting block? Make him park there and just put him back every time he moves until he stops bothering.
Horse won’t load on the trailer? Keep applying pressure and only release when he steps forward.

My whole approach now is to get the horse into the absolute best place I can emotionally by reducing the overall stress levels in their life so we can perhaps get them into a trainable state. Sometimes the horse is so stressed that the first session looks like tweaking management and teaching the horse to eat out of some buckets in an appropriate training space, then leaving the owner to do that until the horse is relaxed about it, then the next session we can introduce some training.

When dealing with behavioural issues that can be caused by pain/fear like aversions to tack/being mounted/loading, I’m always going to bring choice to the table, using pressure/release to do this isn’t giving them a real choice. Its quietly shutting down their communication as there’s really only one answer we will accept. When we give horses choices, they can communicate with us more effectively. Sometimes we aren’t going to like the answer, which is why people push against this sort of training as being “ineffective”. But I am more interested in finding out how the horse actual feels so I can then hopefully find out why and help them.

I’m not interested in nagging horses into doing things they do not want to do, and probably cannot do comfortably, for my own interests. Unfortunately it makes for a terrible business model.

This is an industry-wide problem, extreme stress behaviour is so normalised that we’re mistaking less-explosive stress behaviour for calm relaxation. It is also normalised that horses are there for us to use and they should do exactly what we want them to do at all times or else. I don’t know how else to elicit change except to constantly blab on about it, then hopefully those among us who genuinely want to put our horse’s first can start to see through the narratives and see a different way forward. 🐴

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