| Since I touched the smooth muzzle of the first horse I | | | | could be ridden in child lessons by 12 year old's and he |
| ever met, I was so young, I remember the big | | | | was a 16 hand thoroughbred. I was so proud of him |
| shimmering eyes looking at me full of wisdom and | | | | and you could see he was so much happier now that |
| kindness. I hate seeing horses who have been | | | | he wasn't living in fear. It was like a thorn had been |
| mistreated, trained in the wrong way, lose that look of | | | | stuck in him all that time and it was lifted out. |
| kindness towards us, and it's replaced by fear or | | | | Another important thing is knowing how to see when a |
| aggression. So since I started my first job in a stables | | | | horse is lame or sick, I've seen so many cases where |
| in South England, I wanted to help those horses who | | | | a horse has gone unnoticed when it had something |
| don't trust anyone anymore and show them that we | | | | wrong. There was a bad case with a horse who got |
| can work together happily and that they can trust us. I | | | | his feet picked out one day and they found a sore |
| used to stay after work a few days a week to try | | | | spot. The next day the farrier did his feet and found |
| different methods with horses that just didn't seem | | | | an infection the size of a walnut. :O How did this go |
| happy having anything to do with humans. | | | | unnoticed! It's important to know how to spot lame |
| One of the best methods for helping these horses I | | | | horses and stop infections before they get this big. |
| found was natural horsemanship. One horse called | | | | Once again I feel like I owe so much to horses and I |
| Prince Red had amazing results with natural | | | | hope there are a lot of people out there like me! |
| horsemanship training methods. After only 2 months he | | | | |