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Horses Are Like Kids: They Need Discipline with a Purpose

As I’ve learned to be a parent over the last five years, I have often noted—admittedly, not always with joy—the parallels between being “mom” to a son and “mom” to a horse. The constant need for food and poop removal, for example, stands out rather vividly in my mind… But it of course takes far […]

January 10, 2014
Happy Halloween! Four Ways to Conquer FEAR On and Around Your Horse

“From time without beginning,” writes Douglas Puterbaugh in his chapter on FEAR in THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF DRESSAGE, “man and horse have shared something in common: an ancient and deeply rooted emotion called fear.” Interestingly, although mankind evolved as a predator and horse hung on in the role of prey, both rely on fear […]

October 31, 2012
THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF DRESSAGE: A Provocative Title, A Provocative Cover…Love It, Hate It, the Messages within Will Ring True

Just in and already flying out the door, THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF DRESSAGE is a horse book like no other. We’re all human; we’re all fragile; we all succumb to temptation at one time or another. But the question of the hour is can we look at ourselves in the mirror and say we […]

February 28, 2012