Category: Living with Laminitis

  • Muzzling using the Trust Technique

    Muzzling using the Trust Technique

    Session 1 with the ponies I don’t know about you but I have spent many hours wandering around after ponies who know it is time to have the muzzle on. For a long time I didn’t like muzzles. I did not feel they were fair on the ponies. I had a good talk with myself…

  • It is muzzling time….

    It is muzzling time….

    How can we be peaceful with that? This morning the two ponies, Chocolate and Querida, and one of the horses, Risada had a session looking at getting their muzzles off with peace. Normally they would throw them off – you know what its like. You just get it off their ears and they throw their…

  • Chocolate selecting clove oil

    Chocolate selecting clove oil

    Chocolate shows us what many of the reactions look like in horses when offering essential oils.. This video shows Chocolate selecting clove oil and taking quite a lot of it. We tend to know clove oil mostly as a means of pain relief for toothache, but it has anti bacterial properties and can be good…

  • ..and Risada accepts the bridle

    Following on from my post three days ago Yesterday I asked Risada to come into the arena alone. At first she was quite fidgety and mouthy, and it took about 20 minutes for us to reach a place where we could be peaceful, no thinking, worrying, wondering what was next, etc. This we did in…

  • A 3 way conversation about bridles..

    A 3 way conversation about bridles..

    When the horses are ready to talk about something they will. We just have to be ready to listen…. Timmy, Risada & I started the New Year with a conversation about bridles. I have been walking my pony out with a Micklem bridle which allows me to attach the lead rope to the top of…

  • Riding Epiphanies

    Letting go of riding & then a lightbulb moment! So here is a little thing I want to share…I felt last week that I should spend some time looking at my feelings about riding – How me getting back in the saddle would feel. It is the time of year for a little look over…

  • First steps to driving..maybe

    First steps to driving..maybe

    Two days ago I had an instinct to go and play with the horses in the arena with the big ball. While doing that I found that I could ask Querida to walk forward from behind and allow the ball to roll into her back legs softly and stay there until she walked on. I…

  • Healing responses in the Present Moment

    Healing responses in the Present Moment

    Balancing within the healing collective We are part of everything and everything is part of us… Practicing being present with Chocolate is always a lovely way to spend some time. When we first started doing sessions it was mostly about just finding my place of non-thinking and just being with her and sensing her total…

  • Getting Risada into her new boots!

    Getting Risada into her new boots!

    Laminitics don’t like to lift their feet for anything……… When a pony or horse has suffered with laminitis, and has any amount of rotation, they struggle on hard ground. Their feet become sensitive, some more than others, and it can be difficult for them to feel safe and comfortable picking up their feet for you…

  • Essential Oil self selection with Querida

    Essential Oil self selection with Querida

    Querida is suffering a bit with laminitis this spring, so on 6th June, while she was resting in the shelter I did a little bit of aromatherapy with her. I felt that she may want some Arnica to relieve inflammation pain, and also compensatory pain from lifting her feet to relieve them. I thought I…