Why Horses Paw

Many people have horses who paw and they wonder why their horses do this. The answer is actually quite simple – YOU GIVE THEM ATTENTION FOR IT!  Yes, it’s true.  If your horse is pawing and you tell him to stop – you are actually reinforcing this bad behavior.  It’s like if you tell a [...]

Keeping Your Horse in Shape

As Fall is quickly coming upon us, Winter will be following quickly afterwards and it’s going to leave many horse owners in a position where their horses are not going to get as much exercise as they would like them to get simply due to the weather and poor riding conditions. This means that come [...]

Stages of Training Your Horse

A horse’s training begins the day that he is born. Every moment that you spend with a foal will influence how he behaves from that day forward. Because of this, you always want to consider every moment that you spend with a horse, regardless of age, as training. However, a horse’s true education is typically [...]

5 Ways to Cure a Barnsour Horse

There is nothing worse than a barnsour horse.  You just can’t go anywhere with them and it can even be dangerous for you as a rider if your horse acts particularly bad either leaving or coming back to the barn.  There are a few things that you can do to cure your horse of this [...]

Pat Parelli – Natural Horse-Man-Ship

Natural Horse-Man-Ship: Six Keys to a Natural Horse-Human Relationship
This is one of my most prized books.  I bought this book a few years ago and I just love to read Pat’s little Parellisms.  Pat Parelli is great because he makes you think.  This book was published a little before he became so famous, but it [...]