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    Category: Horsemanship Posts

    Cheerleading and Coaching Horses

    Here is a simple concept you can use that will immediately change your relationship with your horses. It will also help with your spouse, children or …
    Doc-t December 17, 2019
    18 Comments

    Decomplexicating Horsemanship – Eliminate Fear

    Fear alone stops most people from becoming connected with their horses. This describes how one person's fear affected a horse and how that changed wit…
    Doc-t March 18, 2019
    25 Comments

    Do Not Reward Bad Behavior

    Rewarding bad behavior is the most common mistake people make every day with their horses as well as the other people in their lives. Horsemanship IS…
    Doc-t May 16, 2015
    0 Comments

    Get Your Brain Right, Get Your Horse Right

    "Cognitive Laziness" is how we interact with horses today. Through agenda driven medicine and marketing, I look at the collision of new and old.
    Doc-t March 5, 2020
    17 Comments
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    Horse Communication – Talk To The Hand

    Treating the horse as a patient requires those treating the horse to respect it and treat it as a living being and not as as inanimate object.
    Doc-t May 14, 2015
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    Never Stand With Food In A Field Of Horses

    This is a very dangerous situation to be in. Walking into a field of horses with a bucket of grain can lead to your death. It has happened. Horses are…
    Doc-t May 17, 2015
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    Never Turn Horses Out Together Wearing Hind Shoes

    Never turn out horses together in a field when any horse has hind shoes on. If I punched you in the jaw with my fist you will remember how much it hur…
    Doc-t May 15, 2015
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    WARNING – This horse may kill you!

    Remember Law 1, "A horse can kill you." Never be afraid as this is reflected in the horse. Follow a few guidelines and know that this can be achieved …
    Doc-t November 24, 2014
    4 Comments

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