Have you ever wanted to be truly and deeply connected with your horse? Here are a couple of great mindfulness exercises to try.
Behaviour
Josh Nichol explains how achieving that goal requires you to make a sincere effort to meet your horse's needs, not just fulfill your own.
Chloe Phillips-Harris, eventer and Mongol Derby veteran, started the Wild Horse Project to show people how to earn their confidence and trust.
Trainer Josh Nichol helps you understand the spectrum of pressure and what to do in specific moments when horses feel overwhelmed.
How a horse is housed affects its chances of becoming a cribber or weaver ‒ something that most horse owners already know.
If the challenges presented by your horse seem overwhelming, you can feel frustrated and even afraid. You may need a more suitable partner.
Horse owners with dogs envision blissful hacks in the countryside. However, an untrained pooch could head for the hills; here's how to prevent that.
Slowing down is necessary in life and in horsemanship; here's how to incorporate rest and relaxation into your rides to create a calmer equine partner.
Despite their very different prey and predator evolution, dogs and horses have a similar way to play through recognizing and mimicking facial expressions.
Good animal welfare is about more than ensuring your horse’s basic needs are being met, it should also take into consideration his psychological needs.
The idea that a dominance hierarchy is critical to equine social organization and that we must act as alpha in order for our horses to respect us is flawed
Most equine scientists would agree that horses don’t learn new behaviours by watching other horses perform them. Do you agree with that theory?
Licking and chewing in horses originates from a surge in saliva output as the body switches from the sympathetic to the parasympathetic nervous system.
Equine psychologist Antonia J.Z. Henderson, Ph.D. discusses the science of fear in horses, including natural, hard-wired responses and learned behaviour.
Equine psychologist Antonia J.Z. Henderson, Ph.D. explains the reasons why your horse may be pawing and what you can do to prevent this unwanted behaviour.
