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    Are training methods in the equestrian industry outdated? Thoughts on the welfare of horses.

    In light of World Animal Day taking place on the 4th of October I did…

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    Voice, Contact and Touch – necessary skills when greeting the horse.

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    What YOU and HORSES taught me in the past year.

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Instagram post 2227068523161659537_1521205172 "It is within the parameters of their social structure for horses to go to Level Four intensity and deliver a kick to another horse when necessary. Isn’t it interesting that on any given day a horse can “lay into” another horse with full intensity, yet even under great distress, most horses never threaten us with the same level of assertiveness? 🌙 🍃 🌙 Even when I was bitten or kicked in the past, it was with nowhere like the power I see horses use on one another as a matter of course. This goes to show that when a horse does attack a person with actual inintention to harm, something has gone terribly wrong. Why, exactly, do they not harm us on a daily basis when they have every ability to? 🍃 🌙 🍃 How is it that even after being mistreated, abused, or neglected—like so many of the rescue horses I have worked with—they consistently retreat and first attempt to avoid us, only trying to drive us away as a last resort? I have come to believe that horses have in their social agreement with us a “Do no harm” clause. They must, or we couldn’t have survived with them for thousands of years. 🌙 🍃 🌙 Some people feel it is okay for us to strike horses, first because they strike each other, and second because we can never hit one as hard as another horse would kick him. But as I’ve tried to make clear in this book, horses express all kinds of subtle language before they kick or bite one another. 🍃 🌙 🍃 What leads up to the kick is their Conversation: a tail flick to show annoyance; a shift of weight that looks like a slight lean to free up a leg; or even the lifting of a foot as a more direct threat. These are all early-warning cues before the strike, which comes with surgical precision. 🌙 🍃 🌙 The point is, there is no need to resort to striking a horse, because learning Horse Speak keeps you calm and teaches you how to “hear” what the horse is saying, which in the end will make you safer." 🍃 🌙 🍃 - Sharon Wilsie 🌙 🍃 🌙 Photography by @unbridledgoddess + @luminroad
Instagram post 2216359054278697088_1521205172 May this New Year bring you healing energy, joy and all the happiness. 🌲 💓 🌲 credit to: @markmaggiori
Instagram post 2186487076839682624_1521205172 You cannot force a relationship. You cannot make someone like you or love you or do what you want—aside from paying somebody a lot of money or owning a slave. 🦋 ⚘ 🦋 ⚘ Forcing a horse to give us what we want does not make a relationship happen. We can force horses to give us a performance or work for us, but that is not a partnership. ⚘ 🦋 ⚘ 🦋 Forcing a horse over a jump he fears with a whip, then caressing his face or giving him an apple is incongruent. It is like saying, “I command you to obey me; now I command you to love me for it.” I am not saying horses do not take pride in or enjoy their work; they certainly may when it is presented the right way. 🦋 ⚘ 🦋 ⚘ 🦋 However, if we approach a horse with the mixed message of, on the one hand, needing to feel love, connection, partnership, or affection, and on the other hand, needing the horse to boost our own ego or image with the perfect performance at a show or the best time in a race, then on neither hand have we shown up for the horse. ⚘ 🦋 ⚘ 🦋 I want everyone to feel what it is like to have your horse line himself up at the mounting block with eagerness. 🦋 ⚘ 🦋 ⚘ - Sharon Wilsie. ⚘ 🦋 ⚘ 🦋 PC: @rockin_a_photo
Instagram post 2182115235207340761_1521205172 Horses value space. Let me say that again: Horses value space more than food, water, shelter, comfort, and touch. If a horse does not have space to move, he cannot escape, and Mother Nature designed him to be a master of fleeing. 🌾 🌿 🌾 🌿 🌾 When horses feel crowded by us, if we invade their “personal bubble” all the time, if we never let up on the pressure, they have no space. 🌾 🌿 🌾 🌿 🌾 When a horse steps away from you, turns his head away from you, or otherwise moves over for you, he is giving you room. 🌾 🌿 🌾 🌿 🌾 Horses use space like money: when they really like you, they give you the thing they most covet—space to be. 🌾 🌿 🌾 🌿 🌾 - Sharon Wilsie
Instagram post 2180696174355440322_1521205172 Horses are not machines, motorcycles, or computers. We tend to want a timely response, especially when we are riding at higher levels, but we need to remember that horses think slowly but react quickly. 💓 🌛 💓 🌛 💓 This often means we are getting reactive answers, not thoughtful ones. Over time, when a horse really comprehends a cue with everything in his being and is not afraid to execute that maneuver, he can practice doing it with speed. 🌛 💓 🌛 💓 🌛 We have been taught that a horse must be “forward” first to have the essential impulsion, rhythm, and balance needed to perform; however, the horse is then only learning by rote, which does not allow him to contemplate the essence of the lesson. 💓 🌛 💓 🌛 💓 The risk of a horse in this situation being triggered into hyper-vigilance and survival mode is very close to the surface. 🌛 💓 🌛 💓 🌛 Slow way, way down to renegotiate everything you are trying to do or say to your horse. 💓 🌛 💓 🌛 💓 - Sharon Wilsie
Instagram post 2178516238530025326_1521205172 “The Chalou Reach” 😍 🔮 😍 🔮 😍 🔮 Ph. @angelikagrabowska.foto
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