*Horsemanship
Horsemanship is leadership. This simple phrase sums up all of my experience with connecting with tens of thousands of horses I have never been wit…
Category: Horsemanship
10 Irrefutable Laws – Law 01
Law 1 - A horse can kill or hurt you.
There were 201 deaths caused by farm animals in a year. This included horses. But there were over 1 million…
10 Irrefutable Laws – Law 02
Law 2 - The horse that will hurt or kill you is your own.
This law is about complacency. As we become comfortable around our horses we start taking…
10 Irrefutable Laws – Law 03
Law 3 - Whenever working with a horse, always use a halter and lead. Stay connected.
The idea behind a physical connection with a horse is that i…
10 Irrefutable Laws – Law 04
Law 4 - Place yourself between the horse and the exit.
This law is an interesting concept that needs to start with a story. I finished working on …
10 Irrefutable Laws – Law 05
Law 5 - Become the leader.
This law focuses on a simple principle of horses. They exist in groups with a hierarchical structure. In other words, …
10 Irrefutable Laws – Law 06
Law 6 - To be a leader, you need to know the personalities of who you are leading.
Take four people and ask them to take out the garbage from the kit…
10 Irrefutable Laws – Law 07
Law 7 - Seek first to understand…
This law is the first of two intrinsically connected laws, yet they need discussion separately. Originally it cam…
10 Irrefutable Laws – Law 08
Law 8 - ... then to be understood.
All leaders have a plan. A leader's purpose is to have a vision of where the group will end up. Again from Stephen…
10 Irrefutable Laws – Law 09
Law 9 - Energy is everything.
Whether looking through a microscope or a telescope, everything you see uses energy. Some of you may believe in a deity…
10 Irrefutable Laws – Law 10
Law 10 - A horse is a horse.
Horses are living, breathing beings with thoughts, needs, wants and desires. They have a unique digestive system. They …
Beyond The 10 Irrefutable Laws Of Horsemanship – HorseTalk Webinar
This is an hour long video that goes beyond my "Ten Irrefutable Laws Of Horsemanship" book. I discuss more nuanced things I use every day.
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 …
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…
Deeper Contact (testimony)
This is a testimony from a horse owner who took the 2 week no-grain challenge. "No longer reactive ground work is really getting so much better. I fee…
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…
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.
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.
Horsemanship Is Leadership – HorseTalk Webinar
This is a replay of my HorseTalk™ webcast where I go over each of the "Ten Irrefutable Laws Of Horsemanship" from my book. This brings the book aliv…
Is Horsemanship Relevant Anymore?
(Original April 3rd, 2011. Updated April 22, 2023) This year, 2011, celebrates the 250th anniversary of Veterinary Medicine. The first veterinary school was established in…
Leadership For Horses – Rounds With Doc T
This seminar will bring a different perspective on how we interact with horses. It will focus on the leader (humans) becoming better leaders to connec…
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…
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…
Persephone’s Diary (testimony)
This is a testimony from a horse owner who took the 2 week no-grain challenge. "Day Fourteen 8/4: The 1st two weeks have gone by quickly & I’ve seen…
Podcast #012 – Fight Or Flight In Horses
Doc T discusses the portions of the brain responsible for the horses identifying danger, analyzing the threat and then responding to the go / no go fo…
Podcast #014 – The Personalities Of Horses
Horses are like humans in the way they express themselves as blends of four basic personalities. When working with horses, it is important to understa…
Podcast #015 – The Threshold Of Pain In Horses
There is a point where the pain we are experiencing is beyond our ability to control our reaction to it. This point is our pain threshold and it is di…
Podcast #026 – Horsemanship With Daniel Dauphin
Daniel Dauphin is a horseman from Lafayette, Louisiana with a passion for training horses using horsemanship skills he learned from mentors. His websi…
Podcast #030 – Three Dimension Communication With Horses (part 1)
This podcast discusses how our brain works based on the experiences of Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D. in her book “Whole Brain Living.” Through the loss…
Podcast #035 – Three Dimension Communication With Horses (Part 2)
This is the second part of a discussion I started in episode #030. I continue that discussion of relating the brain of the horse with the human brain …
Podcast #046 – Horse Psychology With Dr Jenny Susser
Today’s guest is Dr Jenny Susser, a sport and performance psychologist from Ocala, FL. In her words, she “successfully applies her years of experi…
Podcast #062 – Horsemanship And Confidence Versus Arrogance
I discuss how we can change ourselves in a way that doesn't complicate our life but enhances our ability to connect with those horses who would not ot…
Podcast #094 – Horsemanship – Here Comes The Sun
The Beatles played music from the 1950s through today, though two of the "Fab Four" are now dead. Their "invasion" of the United States occurred in 19…
Two Days To A New Horse (testimony)
This is a testimony from a horse owner who took the 2 week no-grain challenge. THIS IS A MUST SEE VIDEO "6 months before this video, this owner said h…
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 …
What a difference grain makes! (testimony)
This is a testimony from a horse owner who took the 2 week no-grain challenge. "The change in Houston’s attitude was miraculous. Within 2 days of re…
Who Is Responsible? (part 1)
Part 1 - Who is responsible for your horses' behavior? After removing physical reasons (teeth, ulcers, etc) the responsibility rests on the person cha…
Who Is Responsible? (part 2)
Part 2 - The skills of leadership. We relate with horses only when we understand who they are adjusting ourselves to meet their expectations. Listen f…