Tag: Cribbing

  • A look at Control and Chronic Conditions

    A look at Control and Chronic Conditions

    Control, in the world of chronic conditions, is an interesting topic. I am using the term chronic as ‘something that persists for a long time’ and/or is ‘constantly recurring’. Wanting to control is prevalent in all areas of human society, and when it comes to chronic conditions we want to be able to control it,…

  • Stepping into Timmy’s aggressiveness

    Stepping into Timmy’s aggressiveness

    This post follows on from my two previous posts, as this could not have happened if I hadn’t worked with my own feelings around Timmy getting aggressive when I offer him peace. Those two posts are: Additionally we would not have gotten to this point together without the work already done together around his cribbing,…

  • Seek to be Whole, not Perfect

    Seek to be Whole, not Perfect

    I haven’t written a lot about Timmy and how we are progressing with his cribbing recently. This is because nothing was needed until today, and all that was needed today was a conversation that has given both of us something to process. When I say process it could mean any or all of these: But,…

  • Releasing an onion layer..

    Releasing an onion layer..

    Allow an animal to have their say without taking what they say personally. When my farrier was here last week (28 Nov 22) Timmy gave us some real challenges. Interestingly Timmy is always the easy one for feet – a lot of the time I could just put his rope over his back and let…

  • Opening up to a conversation

    Opening up to a conversation

    Timmy and I have done a lot together to build up our mutual trust, release and heal traumas, and learn to just be together in his environment. We have also done some work on finding and sharing the ‘present moment’ in the playpit / arena. Now, after a summer of rest and processing it is…

  • The next step of our cribbing journey

    The next step of our cribbing journey

    Timmy learning to trust that he will be listened to… Over the summer Timmy and I have done quite a few sessions together where we have shared being in the present moment with each other. For him this is a huge step in trusting humans. We have released a level of trauma, a level of…

  • A horse that is nervous when eating….

    A horse that is nervous when eating….

    Timmy has come a long way, and is now sharing something new… I wanted to share today a couple of videos, one from 31st May 2022 when I was having to protect myself with a rope whenever I tried to get peaceful with Timmy, and one from this morning (09 August 2022), which shows how…

  • One step forward…A little celebration

    One step forward…A little celebration

    Timmy did not crib today after eating his bucket feed. I took the bucket feeds out to the herd and just observed this morning. (19th July 2022). When Timmy walked off after his bucket, I followed to see if he had gone to crib on his post, which is the normal behaviour. I kept well…

  • The cycle of habitual reactions

    The cycle of habitual reactions

    Patience and Persistence is a requirement.. This is a short post mostly for me to record two days of habituated reactions. (14th and 15th July 2022). The videos are long and are a record of the different reactions I am seeing in Timmy as we progress. There seems to be a ritual at times as…

  • Applying, and working with, the nicotine patch

    Applying, and working with, the nicotine patch

    A look at replacing the cribbing behaviour with something else…. A nicotine patch is something that helps smokers break their habit once they have agreed within themselves that they would like to give up the habit. Is this idea potentially something that could help with cribbing? I am not sure. It is something that I…