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17.01.2022 Putting on your horse's head collar with permission, acceptance and confidence... If your horse shows resistance or avoidance with anything, this is your horse telling you they do not give permission, don't accept, don't understand and/or are not confident. Take the time to help your horse become confident, understand, accept and give permission with everything you do. The result will be an amazing partnership!... "Take the time with your equine and make exceptional happen." Charlotte Moore.

09.01.2022 FLOAT LOADING... If your horse struggles with loading onto the float or travelling, don't leave it to the day of the show to teach your horse how to be confident. Horses are naturally claustrophobic being flight animals. Squeezing in to a little cavity that traps them in and moves around and makes lots of loud squeaky noises is rather terrifying to them. Being the predators that we are, we can misunderstand challenging behaviour as being naughty, stubborn, etc.... Take a second to think about how you would feel being pushed down a dark alley way on your own, not knowing where danger lurks. Then imagine that the person pushing you will "MAKE" you do it by inflicting pain and not giving you a choice BUT to go down there. So your choices are: 1. Stay where you are and be beaten as a punishment for not going down the dark alley way. 2. Walk down the dark alley way feeling like your life could be taken at any point because you don't understand your environment. Kind of a lose-lose situation really. This is often what unintentionally happens when humans try to load horses on to floats. Adverse behaviours offered by horses when float loading or travelling are often due to a lack of confidence. So now you know that this float is equivalent to a dark alley way, you have a choice to make. Do you aggressively dictate to your horse to load like most predators? Or do you take a moment to understand how scary this may be for them and then help to build up their confidence in you, themselves and their environment by gently exposing them to the the float in increments. Carefully watching their body language for signs of fear and instead of pushing them further, stopping and allowing them to process the information and offer some acceptance. Take the time to build your horse's confidence BEFORE the day of your show and understand how it feels for them. Put yourself in your horse's hooves. "Take the time with your equine and make exceptional happen!" ~ Charlotte Moore

09.01.2022 Hello wonderful people!! We have only 4 spots left available for our horse and human psychology workshop in 2 weeks. If you would like to book your spot, just click on the event on our FB to secure your seat or PM us directly

07.01.2022 Starting horses under saddle... Physically the horse is not fully developed until 5-6 years old depending on their size and the pelvis being one of the last things to mature. To put this into context, imagine a human infant or child walking and even running around with a heavy weight on their back. This has the potential to impact the horse's longevity. Biomechanically they will adapt to weight incorrectly and later in life this can cause joint degradation and chronic muscle ...soreness. Mental maturity varies depending on the horse and sometimes even the breed. Some horses mature mentally at 3 years old and some at 8 years old. Preparing your horse mentally as early as possible on the ground through gentle exposure and games will help make a huge difference in how your horse perceives information and develops his/her confidence. The horse needs rapport and trust with the human and must understand appropriate pressure through clear communication and leadership. When your horse is MENTALLY soft and supple he will be PHYSICALLY soft and supple. Physical tension and brace starts in the mind and ricochets through the body. It leaves a path of destruction much like a tsunami. When you START your horse under saddle, consider the following: Physical maturity Mental maturity Mental preparation through understanding and communication Confidence in yourself and your horse Consider that "breaking in" could be a huge change to your horse and very traumatic physically and mentally. However "starting" your horse is more about starting a relationship and developing and a partnership through understanding, leadership, communication and confidence. Starting a horse starts at the very start when you first meet your horse.