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A GREAT POST By Amy Skinner: The problem with horse training is that society is set up to believe that you can buy a service and have things the way you want in... a certain time frame. People look at horse training as if they're spending their money on a product. And yet even the best horse trainers will tell you the horse takes its own time, and no one can guarantee a horse will be doing what you want from it when you want from it. The other problem is that even if your trainer can get t done with your horse, it doesn't necessarily mean that you will be able to. Getting a horse right takes an amount of commitment on the owners part to develop the same type of relationship that the trainer has, otherwise how can you expect from your horse for yourself what your trainer gets, when it's they who have put in the hours, the sweat, the patience and the desire to get Along with that horse? You aren't spending money on a tune up for your car that you can take home and drive. The fact that money is involved leads people to believe they deserve something for what they paid, and they do, but, it happens in the animals time, not the humans. I think any good trainer would say they would do this for free if they could, just to help horses and people. And yet, we all have to eat. -words by Amy Skinner Photo is of Ray Hunt. See more

This is beautifully said by a wonderful and caring Veterinarian.

To all my horsey friends, I am looking for some new horses to add to our lesson program. Something between 14-16hh, and under 20 years old. No OTTBs please. Needs to be quiet enough for a beginner with more woah than go. English or Western trained is fine and jumping a plus. Let me know if you hear of anything!

I love her wild dinosaur snorts!

This is my vet that saved Rosie's life! Dr. Williams was in an accident and his truck was totaled! Let's help him out the way he's always there for us and our animals!

In case anyone is interested in doing this virtual horse show online (since it was canceled due to covid) here is the information! You do not have to be a part of a 4-H group to participate. Let me know if you need any help signing up https://sites.google.com/ucdavis.edu/marinvirtualshow/home

Someone had the zoomies today!

Miss you every day! 7-13-14

I was doing some research on horses eyesight and found it fascinating so I thought I would share some facts with you guys - feel free to share if you have a h...orse who regularly spooks, have a read! Did you know horses have the largest eyes out of ALL land mammals? The first image is a humans eyesight and what we see. The second is a horses eyesight. They have a blind spot directly in front of them and cannot merge their vision into one image like we can. This makes it all the more incredible at how the horse can jump, especially when we ask them to jump skinny fences and combinations Horses do not focus their eyes the way we do. Have you ever seen a horse raising and lowering its head as it looks at an object? It does that to adjust the focal length, moving until the object comes into focus on its retina. When you see a horse shy at a sudden movement behind him or next to him, his peripheral vision has sighted the movement but has not yet had time to focus on it. Even when the horse has focused as best it can, its sight is only three-fifths that of a human. In other words, when looking at an object twenty feet away, the horse sees only as much detail as a person would see if the object were thirty-five feet away. Simply, when you are out riding and see a strange object ahead, you will recognize what you are seeing long before your horse does. So we can cut our horses some slack when they spook at something that we think is silly Another interesting fact is that the right eye reports to the right side of the brain and the left eye reports to the left side of the brain. This explains why horses may spook on the right rein and then after showing them the object they go past it fine, but when you change rein they still spook at it again on the left rein. Contrary to popular belief, horses CAN also perceive depth. "Apparently, horses have many of the same depth-detecting skills that we have. They have true stereoscopic vision, despite having lateral eyes." When you really think about it, isn’t it incredible that we, as a predatory being, can ride upon the back of a horse, a prey animal who’s every instinct tells it to run from us? Horses are amazing