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LS Horsemanship

Equine behavioural consultant. Kind, horse-centred training and support.

31/10/2026

When it’s dinner time but you’re a little arthritic and your legs get carried away with you trotting down a slope 🥲🥰

Dan and Jimmy are a little more casual about dinner 😎

Such a gorgeous sunset tonight, one of my favourite things about the night drawing in.

31/10/2026

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 claims, and perhaps 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, neither is feeding a horse treats only when they give you the behaviour you want whilst ignoring their communication of discomfort. 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. The success stories we see are so often just a horse that has learned they must comply and has started to tolerate being ridden better because someone who is better at coercing horses is involved. When you can really read behaviour and expressions you can see these horses aren't okay at all, they are just obedient.

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 horses first can start to see through the narratives and see a different way forward. 🐴

30/10/2026

How have you been conditioned to be around horses? 🐴

My dad had no involvement with horses in his life until I became interested, he has been around them a little over the years, I even got him on one once (which he hated and got off after 2 minutes of walking 😅). Since I moved the horses home over the last couple of years he has become much more involved in caring for them. What I find so interesting is how he naturally behaves around the horses having not been indoctrinated into the industry at all. His only experiences are working around our settled herd mostly with the horses loose and at liberty. He has not been exposed to chronically stressed horses who aren’t having their needs met.

He hasn’t done a lot of leading with the horses, because of our setup he used to just bring them in one at a time with no headcollars on with some treats in his pocket and they would all willingly oblige and understand the routine.

When we moved to a place where headcollars were required to take the horses through the farmyard it was interesting to see how different his instincts were when leading to what most of us have conditioned into us. There was absolutely no urge in him to back the horses up, if they pulled or veered towards a certain direction he tended to go with them like you would a dog wanting to investigate. What I found the most interesting is that when he was trying to guide or correct them, he was so gentle. He has such a healthy respect for them there is nothing in him that even considered yanking or pulling them harshly or shouting at them. In return the horses are very safe and gentle around him.

I was trying to figure out why it seemed so unusual to me that his instincts weren’t to try and dominate and assert himself. I’ve realised its because from the start most of us are told we have to be so firm and perhaps even rough with horses to keep them under control. Its certainly what was around me all of the time when I first started learning about horses.

My dad’s only influence with horses has been me, and these days the way I behave around my horses is very different to years gone by. I rarely “catch” them to do anything within their living space, they are comfortable with what we ask of them and therefore safe to be around. They come and go as they please and they associate people with nice things happening.

In the past I was a drill sergeant, my first instinct around any horse was to back them out of my space and chase/shove them away if they tried to engage or happened to step towards me without me asking them to. I didn’t even really think about it, its just what I did out of habit. If a horse didn’t like something I was doing I would keep doing it until they gave in. My horses didn’t enjoy hanging out with me very much and when given the choice would leave as they expected me to hassle them.

I don’t really put a lot of importance into “personal space” with my horses anymore, sure I ask my horses to move a little if they’re in the way, but I enter their space sometimes and other times they enter mine, it is no problem. If I don’t want them to in that moment I simply quietly ask them not to or I disengage with them, I don’t need to push them around and make them stand to attention. When I first meet a horse now I see if they want to engage with me, I don’t insist on it and I don’t feel entitled to their bodies. This has kept me safer than any of my old “teach the horse to respect you” training ever did, because the horses feel safe around me and I also don’t put them in situations that set them up to fail.

We can absolutely teach boundaries and leading positions without having the horse feel like the space around us is lava and if they dare to slip into it they’ll be met with a flag/stick/rope waved up into their face.

Its interesting how often I meet new clients and they apologise for their horse engaging with them by perhaps nuzzling or nudging them while we’re chatting because they’ve been told by others that it is so rude. I have to explain it is absolutely fine, it is not rude and the horse is just feeling frustrated or anxious, perhaps we step away and stay out of their space while we chat. We’re all so indoctrinated into thinking any sort of interaction not on our terms is rude and dangerous, its not. It is completely normal for horses to interact with their environment and not stand like robots.

Our habits can be so hard to break, especially when they come from a place of worry about being out of control or hurt, but we can’t expect our horses to be relaxed and feel safe around us if every step out of line is met with a harsh correction.

Have a think about this next time you’re leading your horse. How aware are you of what you’re doing? If your horse stops to look at something, do you just pull or do you perhaps yank sharply to get their attention? Could you maybe pause with them and leave slack in the rope and give them a moment? When they’re ready could you invite them to walk on with you with the gentlest pressure you can and release for one step? Can you recognise when you’re feeling stressed or frustrated around your horse and stop and take a deep breath before you react?

The more consistently gentle and predictable we are around our horses, the safer they will feel around us and the softer and safer they will be to handle. Don’t just train for obedience, consider how your horse is feeling always. The more we train with the horse’s emotional state in mind, which means considering the horse’s needs outside of the training too, the less we ever need to “get into it” with horses.

If you have any stories of becoming softer and changing your perspective with your horses I'd love to hear them. 🐴

Pictured is my dad hanging out with Dan last summer ♥️♥️

29/10/2026

What are we really doing? 🐴

As I have become more interested in all animal behaviour and training, when scrolling through my news feed I am shown a lot of dog training videos.

The video that prompted me to write was of a dog who was terrified of people even in their own home. In the video the trainer has the dog on a lead in front of a crowd of people. The dog is cowering with their tail between their legs absolutely terrified. Their allegedly ethical solution is to use an e-collar and punish the dog unless the dog is looking towards the trainer. They don’t call it punishment but that’s what it is. If the dog moves or looks away from them they use the e-collar again. Quite quickly the dog learns that the only way to get the punishment to stop is to go near the trainer. Success apparently.

So we’ve taken a stressed animal with behavioural issues, put them in a strange, scary environment, filled with strange people and then applied pressure until they have complied. Sound familiar?

None of this is actually helping the animal feel better, they’re just having to choose between a rock and a hard place. Which is more unpleasant? Being near the person or the e-collar/flag/rope/plastic bag/whip? It is obedience training and nothing more. Getting the animal to perform the behaviour you deem acceptable without it mattering how they feel about it.

I have a real ethical issue with taking horses who are struggling even in their home environment with apparent behavioural issues and sticking them in front of a crowd in a strange place to be pulled around on a rope halter and hassled with a flag/plastic bag/whip in the name of “helping” them. This is just flooding and it is a fast-track to a very shut down, traumatised, albeit compliant, horse.

If your horse is bargey/bolting/nippy/rearing/won’t load/won’t stand at the mounting block etc this is anxiety/stress at best, but quite possibly discomfort, pain or trauma. Putting them into a stressful training scenario to “fix” the issues is making all of this even worse for them. Putting them through obedience training is just shutting them down.

I don’t know if it felt more confronting watching the fearful dog as we tend to recognise fear-behaviour in dogs more easily and therefore have more empathy. There is so much stress and fear behaviour in horses that is ignored or mis-labelled as disobedience. We are so used to seeing highly stressed horses we have normalised it. More and more as I travel this path a lot of the normalised ways of treating horses make me feel quite ill. I can’t not have empathy.

Once you know I don’t know how you can look away. 🐴

27/10/2026

How to build a good relationship with your horse (that’s good for your horse too) 🐴

More and more people are interested in developing positive relationships with their horses, we are moving away from only caring about what a horse can do for us and moving further towards wanting them to have a good experience too.

There are countless methods that now use this heavily in their marketing “build a bond with your horse in 4 weeks”, “teach your horse to manage their emotions”, “beginner’s guide to true connection”, if you can’t tell I made those up, but if they are the actual names of anyone’s training courses I am sorry that was not intentional.

Every time I look at the content within these courses I see horses taken into training spaces and coerced to move their bodies in various ways with pressure. Maybe with a flag, maybe with a stick, maybe with a rope, maybe with treats on top. Maybe we’ll describe coercing a posture as helping a horse to feel better if only we can struggle through a bit and show him that we know best.

We as humans love to feel like we’re achieving, we love certainty, we want steps 1 through to 10 so we can measure our perceived success. If I drill these steps exactly as I’m told then I am guaranteed to be the best at having a good relationship with my horse. I definitely used to feel like this.

Now I think about things differently, I really try to see from the horse’s point of view, even if that is uncomfortable for me. I don’t see how any horse’s idea of a good time could be to be taken into a training space and hassled with pressure to move their feet, or move their bodies in specific ways, just because the human wants them to do so. At best that seems incredibly boring, at worst that could be unpleasant, stressful and even scary. You can absolutely achieve obedience like this, but positive associations with people? I don’t see how.

If you want to build a good relationship with your horse, that is good for your horse too, you have to become a predictor of pleasant things happening. You have to spend time with your horse while he is doing things he enjoys. If the only time your horse sees you, you take him away from his friends and make him work in the arena, then he’s probably not going to feel great about you.

I’m going to tell you a client story about a lovely lady who was feeling lost as she felt her horse, lets call him Ted, no longer liked her. She had provided him with 24/7 turnout in a settled herd, he had a bespoke nutrition plan, regular physio, she spent a long time grooming him every day and she dedicatedly followed a groundwork program as she was told this was the best way to build a connection with him and keep his body supple.

She contacted me because she just felt he no longer liked her and she was finding it upsetting. He would always initially walk away from her when she went to catch him, nothing dramatic but he would rather not engage with her. He would plant on the way in from the field if she wasn’t carrying her flag and he just seemed disinterested in anything except going back out with his friends.

The groundwork she had been taught to do with him involved him moving his feet in all directions from pressure of the flag, they were very good at this and Ted responded to the lightest ask. We had a chat about how there wasn’t really anything pleasant in this for him and I wondered what other things they did together that she thought Ted enjoyed. She told me that she spent lots of time grooming him every day, so I asked if she thought Ted enjoyed this. She paused, then said, “well he just stands there tied up, he doesn’t pull faces but I don’t know?”

I think these assessments of the time we spend with our horses can be uncomfortable but important to explore if we truly want to have a good relationship with them. There are so many things that we just think are pleasant for horses by default because we’ve been told they are and our intentions are good, grooming, massage, scratches, stroking, groundwork, going for walks etc, but depending on the horse and the context, they can find these things deeply unpleasant, then we become associated with unpleasant things.

When observing Ted I got the impression he was quite shut down, and by that I mean he didn’t think it was worth communicating how he was feeling, he just did as he was told. His two small communications, initially walking away when she tried to catch him and planting on the way in, were ignored, so he didn’t bother any further to avoid further hassle.

We looked at how we could start to change things by involving his owner in things Ted already enjoyed and slowly expanding his comfort zone so we could replace his negative associations with new positive ones. His owner started to spend time in the field just hanging out without trying to catch him or touch him, just sharing space together with no expectations. When she did catch him she would bring him just outside the gate and give him his feed and pick his hooves then put him right back out. We gradually moved the bucket further away until he was happily walking all the way into the yard for his feed, no planting.

We also started looking at touch and grooming with Ted loose so he could walk away, so many horses don’t think they’re allowed to express their feelings even when they’re not restrained, so we have to teach them they’re allowed to do so. This is especially important when we want to know if our horse is sore or in pain, I want them to feel they can tell me.

Once Ted was happily coming in we started adding in enrichment activities both on the yard and eventually in the arena. We can use these to create all sorts of movement opportunities to both improve posture and mobility in our horses. Ted’s owner completely stopped with her flag groundwork as she realised he was finding it unpleasant and it wasn’t adding anything to their relationship.

Ted now comes to call and his owner feels like she has a relationship with her horse again. They are enjoying their enrichment activities and learning the foundations of clicker training together whilst they continue hacking out with their friends a few times a week.

Building good relationships with our horses looks nothing like conventional training, it requires assessing your individual horse and the environment you share. Then spending time building pleasant experiences together where they’re comfortable and giving them the agency to make some choices. Only then can we truly earn their trust and have them feel safe around us, rather than the conventional way of judging their blind obedience as a sign of good bond.

What activities do you do with your horse that are purely for your horse's enjoyment? 🐴

25/10/2026

Is it kind or is it just less bad? 🐴

I occasionally spend a fair amount of time perusing social media, probably to the detriment of my mental health, but I find it really interesting to read the discussions under videos. The narratives we spin, the justifications when presented with an uncomfortable criticism.

There has been a huge movement towards wanting to be seen as ethical and kind with horses over the last few years, definitely in the UK anyway. Unfortunately because high-stress behaviour and harsh training is still so normalised in the industry, often what we perceive to be wonderful kind training is actually, when we really look at it, still pretty unpleasant, its just less bad than other stuff we’ve seen.

A couple of examples from my recent reading:

That it is much kinder to strike a horse with a whip hard once than repeatedly kick them in the ribs. They even presented evidence for this through the autopsy of a riding school pony who had horrible injuries to his ribs. The problem here is we are acting like these are the only two choices on the table, its sad to me that we cannot even fathom another solution. My answer would be to do neither of these things and figure out why this horse is finding it so difficult to move forward.

That it was fine for a horse to be left with tight side reins on because they were elasticated. I see this justification a lot. Elastic still applies constant pressure, that is its whole purpose, otherwise your trousers would fall down. Does your elasticated girth keep the saddle on? I hope so. No equipment that applies constant, inescapable pressure to coerce the horse into a posture is kind or ethical and they should have no place in training.

That it was kind training to scare a horse with a flag to force them to jump over a ditch because the flag can’t hurt them like a whip can. It is interesting that we don’t hold psychological distress on the same level that we do physical pain. If a horse is very frightened of being chased by a flag, and there is nowhere to go except towards something else they’re frightened of (the ditch in this case), that is a high level of distress and while you may achieve obedience, there will be a huge cost to the horse.

And the final one is a trickier, more nuanced issue but something we see a lot.

Training that looks very quiet and soft, but is ultimately inappropriate for that horse at that time. There are usually pain issues underlying here. An example that comes to mind is a horse being re-backed after being declared a problem with another trainer. There are lots of soft words and slow movement, but if we look at the horse they are really not okay with the situation, tense eye, tense neck and tense facial expression. We need to be really careful that we are not mistaking standing still and tolerating for being relaxed, but that is another post I really want to get around to writing. Its not kind to train a horse who is clearly showing signs of continued distress with what we’re doing, no matter how gently we think we’re doing it. There are much kinder, more ethical ways to train than just repeatedly doing something to a horse and hoping they get used to it.

The bottom line is 99% of the training we see is still just doing stuff to horses that they find unpleasant enough that it forces them to perform behaviour they aren’t able, ready or willing to do. There is so much more out there than what we have been conditioned to accept in the industry, it just requires a willingness and a desire to learn to really listen to our horses.

Once you start to see behaviour as the communication it is there is no need to get into any sort of battle or sticky situation. We can have a relaxed, willing horse who genuinely enjoys spending time with us, not one who performs because unpleasant things happen if he doesn’t. 🐴

P.S. I spent ages trying to figure out if “less bad” is grammatically correct, to the point I’ve read it so many times it no longer looks like they’re real words to me, but apparently it is 😅

24/10/2026

How is everyone in the UK coping with our first big storm of the season?

This is my horses’ first storm in their new home so we are just getting the lay of the land. They live out 24/7, we do not have stables and even if we did my horses would hate being in them 🥲. Last night when we had measly 20mph winds they spent most of their time around our shelter but this afternoon they have set up camp in the bottom corner by the hedge where they feel safest. The hedge is doing a good job of blocking the some of the 60mph gusts and its making me ponder about putting some sort of shelter over this side next year.

They are all rugged to keep them dry and keep the windchill off (I like to think of rugs as individual portable shelters). I have moved more hay boxes into the area, they have a probably ludicrous amount of loose hay to make sure they don't run out and I've also moved their water close by. Horses are great at weathering out storms and know exactly what to do, but sometimes they will choose safety over travelling to get water so I wanted to make sure that didn't happen.

How are you all managing? Are your horses in or do they use your shelters? Do you worry about the storm damaging the buildings? I know people in the south had their own wild storm yesterday but we're just being hit with ours today until tomorrow evening.

21/10/2026

Kindness is not incompetence 🐴

If the me from 10 years ago came across me now I’d have been rolling my eyes and thinking “she doesn’t have a clue, horses don’t work like that, my horse is fine”, I now realise that horses do work like that, back then I didn’t have a clue and my horse definitely wasn’t fine.

I knew how to make horses comply with my requests and I weaved whichever narrative made me feel comfortable about it in my head.

I convinced myself I was being kind and doing what was best for the horses, that I was just doing what you had to do to train horses. Anyone with a softer way of being around horses made me uncomfortable, because if I acknowledged that perhaps they were onto something, I would also have to acknowledge the skillset I had was based on years of misinformation. So instead I scoffed and called people incompetent and silly for wanting to give their horses choices and train them with food.

We are going through an interesting period in the industry where kindness is seen as something to aspire to, you can see it used as a marketing and PR tool everywhere. Don’t mind about those blue tongues and spur marks, look at me giving the horse a cuddle and feeding him an apple! 🥰

There are many trainers with huge platforms that frequently show extremely stressed and unhappy horses going through training, but it is all explained away as good for the horse. That it is somehow the horse’s fault for their explosive reactions and they’re just helping.

We see words and phrases like kind, ethical, building confidence, saving their life, showing them leadership, connection, partnership, building trust etc. Yet if we actually look at a lot of this content without bias, we see horses being set up to fail by putting them into situations they aren’t ready for, then the drama (and great content) will happen. This just isn’t necessary and it certainly isn't kind. Training that is centred around rider wants, framed around "saving" horses by making them useful, is never going to be ethical in my eyes. Its just a story that makes us feel good about what we're doing.

The reason you don’t see truly ethical trainers sharing horses displaying these sorts of dramatic behaviours, is that they don’t put horses into those situations in the first place. Then people use this as a critique that the more gentle trainer could never manage an actually “dangerous” horse. What people don’t realise is, most of the time the dangerous behaviour is human-caused, and you’ll never see it if you train below threshold and address what needs to be addressed. People who are excellent at reading behaviour do not need to put a horse into a training situation to assess them, there are usually plenty of tells that the horse is uncomfortable before this.

If you need to be brave to ride a certain horse, that horse probably isn’t having a good time. It is false that you need to get a breakdown to get a breakthrough, that someone just needs to sit through all the bucking and when the horse finally gives in they’ve helped the horse to feel better. Have they helped the horse to feel better or has the horse just given up trying to communicate that they’re struggling because they realise it is fruitless?

I watch a lot of these videos, and I see a lot of horses who are compromised in their bodies and a lot of horses who are really not okay emotionally. They are then trained and ridden in ways that are going to compromise their body further. If anyone comments it is explained away as the horse “just learning and it will come in time”, not sure how its the horse’s issue when the horse has nowhere to go but into the tight contact as they’re are pestered along. But they're being praised and told they’re such a good boy when they finally comply, maybe even given a treat, so its definitely kind training….

With so much information and learning available online, many amateur horse owners are extremely knowledgeable and switched on. When you have a large platform and are putting videos out as a professed behavioural expert, I think it is par for the course that people are allowed to ask questions and open up discussions.

Instead what happens at the first sniff of a critique, the trainer’s intense fan club jump on the commenter with cries of “here comes the turmeric brigade!” or “look at these armchair experts bet they can’t even ride their fat cob down the lane!”. Isn’t it interesting that we market heavily with kindness, but if anyone wants to open up a discussion about how perhaps things could be done more kindly, or talk about the stress behaviour they are seeing in the horse, they are silenced quickly.

If we are really for the horse, we will be happy to have these discussions.

If we are really for the horse, we don’t use getting the horse to comply as our only metric for success.

If we are really for the horse, we don’t repeatedly put the horse in unnecessary high-stress situations so we can show everyone how difficult and dangerous they are.

If we are really for the horse, we don’t ignore their communication and make up narratives to suit our own agenda and what feels comfortable for us. They do not have a voice, we must speak up for them.

I get it, I really do, because it used to be me. But if we actually want to do the best for our horses, we must have the integrity to admit that a lot of the accepted ways of dealing with horses are not good for horses, they’re good for us.

I challenge you to look at some of this dangerous horse transformation content through a different lens. Has the horse really come through the other side and now he loves his job and wants to jump with us all day long? Or is that just what we really want to believe, and the reality is inconvenient and uncomfortable?

We can create horses that are safe to be around without fear and we can train our horses to do pretty incredible things without high-stress and explosions, but we need to really look at what is appropriate. There needs to be so much more education around not only behaviour, but what appropriate and healthy movement and posture looks like.

Kindness is not incompetence, it is actually takes much more skill to train with the horse’s emotional and physical well-being in mind.

So many more of us are seeing through the stories we’re being told and actually seeing the horse underneath. We just have to keep planting the seeds. Change is already here for those of us who want it. 🐴

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