I wanted to do another book review, this time on Ray Hunt’s book Think Harmony With Horses. It had some good ideas, but overall I preferred Mark Rashid’s book Horses Never Lie. Mark has very similar ideas but explained them in more detail.

I’ll go over the process of how I train a horse to get vaccines and how to give them.

I recently read one of Mark Rashid’s books Horses Never Lie. I really enjoyed it and learned a lot, so I wanted to share what I though about it in a little review.

The reason that horses have problem behaviors is because they are either afraid or uncomfortable. When a horse feels like this they often default to using flight or fight behaviors, which almost all are what we consider problems. If the horse learns that a behavior, like biting, works to get the human to stop doing what is making them uncomfortable it then becomes a learned behavior. We need to find the cause of why the horse feels uncomfortable or afraid to truly solve behavior issues.

You never know when a horse will need eye drops or ointment. I like to prepare them for this by doing desensitizing and targeting so that they will be comfortable when I need to handle the eyes. I’ll cover why horses become afraid when you hold them for these procedures and how to train a horse to stand quietly for them.

Lots of horses get worried when they have to be near the clippers. I will walk you through the process that I use to get a horse comfortable being clipped.

Lots of things that have been happening in the horse world recently have really disappointed me and made me think of how we can change the industry for the better. I go into my story with horses and how I have grown throughout the years in my training. Hopefully this will open some minds when seeing or trying out new methods of working with horses.

This is a very quick episode talking about why horses chew wood and what you can do about it.

I just wanted to discuss some of the recent events that happened at this year’s derby. I’ll also talk a little about other horse sports and racing in general. These are just my opinions on racing. The overall ideas I hope to share are how to make the world better and safer for horses.

In part 2 I’ll be talking about feeding, environment, and exercise and how they effect the horse’s behavior. I’m also going to cover some red flags to look out for when buying and selling.