Horse As Teacher

There are eight stories of true life lessons via the equine master. They fit together well and remind of how much there is to learn and then to remember. The off-topic posts (also eight of them) contain a few real gems and surprises. Finally, I have appended a special category for Cowboy Tales. Enjoy them all!

Horse As Teacher

Nancy presents Soundness is in The Heart at the Sean Project. I begged Nancy to post for the Carnival, and she submitted late, but read her blog and you will know why I thought it worth begging.

Kimberly presents What Horses Teach Us: Reclaiming our Freedom on IGallopOn.com.... another thing I begged her to let me post. Kimberly is one of my heroes.... she has quite a few YouTube videos of learning to vault. It takes a lot of bravery to post a video of yourself trying to jump up on a practice horse.

Jerri Gillean presents Learning Horses: Failure posted at Learning Horses. This post gets to the heart of the issue, if you don't try, risking failure, you can't succeed. Jerri comes clean about her own trials and tribulations along the road to wisdom.

Lynda Polk presents The day that Starman failed to take the hint posted at Hoofbeats. Here you will find a story of being tested to the outermost limits of endurance. I bet to this day, she is still just a bit saddlesore from that ride! Will the effort be worthwhile, or was it a ride in vain? Find out on Hoofbeats.

Donna presents Life Lessons from the Barn posted at A Velvet Cage. This essay reminds us of things that we have all learned but we all forget. You are a true horsewoman when you don't forget them.

Kathy presents Training Lessons posted at Of Horses and Art. Kathy shows wisdom when she realizes she is over her head, and learns a valuable lesson about letting go.

MiKael Caillier presents The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men and an Arabian Horse Breeder. posted at MiKael's Mania - Arabian Horses. Breeding plans for a newly purchased mare seemed simple enough. But adding a pregnant horse (due in six weeks) to an established broodmare band wasn't the only hurdle that needed to be considered.

Doug Emerson presents Rushing Works Best In Football posted at Don't Look Back. If you take Doug's words to heart and put them to practice, a lot of problems disappear.

Patricia Barlow-Irick (that's me!) presents Meditation on the Riddles of Equine Training posted at Experiments in Training Equines. My equines are Zen masters and offer me many lessons.

General Horse Blog

Sierra Lynch presents What To Do After A Bee Stings Your Horse. And The One Thing You Should Never Do. posted at Horse IQ. You want Sierra as a traveling companion because she always has a good idea of what to do in an emergency. It sounds pretty casual on her blog this time; you just sort of find a bee sting on your horse. In my experience, if you are riding and the bees start attacking, you know it and you are lucky to ride it out to safety... especially in these days of killer bees!!! Well, her advice is good for your horse or your kids.

Esther Garvi presents Advice from the Nigerien race track posted at Ishtar News. An amazing story of cultural habits that our western minds find incomprehensible. I can't help but wonder about this.... these horses are engaged in competition. If this practice was harmful to the horses, wouldn't an owner who didn't do it have a competitive advantage? What is the reinforcement that makes these people do what to us seems so wrong? Clearly we need to question our own assumptions. I would like to see a study of this phenomenon.

Dora Renee' Wilkerson presents Knitting, horses, and my family.: 02/04/07 posted at Knitting, horses, and my family.. Dora is a girl after my own heart.... the most sincere form of recycling going on here. No reason to throw those baling twines out any more. Lots of photos and clear directions. Dora has lots of other fiber works patterns, so its a fun website to browse.

Kerri-Jo Stewart presents To bit or not to bit? posted at Golden Dreams - Our Akhal-Tekes. This is an informative collection of information about bitting as, Kerri-Jo tries to figure out what's best for her equine partner.

L presents The Math of Breeding posted at Me & Mira (& Other Grammar Airers). L dispenses with the sentimental stuff and says, "Okay, how many horses should be breeders?" It's up to everyone to do the right thing. Something to think about.

MiKael Caillier presents Some Basics About Twin Arabian Foals posted at MiKael's Mania - Arabian Horses.With all the interest in equine twins, you'd think there would be a lot of information out there. Searching the web it seems the facts about twins in horses are only included as sprinklings here and there, so here's a compilation of the basics.

Defrost Indoors presents two postings: Starving horses were part of an unusual breeding program posted at Bridlepath and Urban legends « Bridlepath posted at Bridlepath.

Special Lonesome Cowboy Stories Section

Clay West, Americas most lost and lonesome cowboy, presents: Adios Harley Cotton. We Barely Knew You on House of Clay. Well, at least, the horse survived.

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