Tag: horses

  • Feeling judged? Doubting yourself?

    Feeling judged? Doubting yourself?

    A look at changing that feeling…………… And a couple of laminitis references……… This post is less to do with horses and more to do with ourselves. (so I found some of my bird photos for a change). Guess what? Changing ourselves helps our animals, helps those around us, and mostly helps ourselves; physically, emotionally and…

  • Pain anticipation with Risada

    Pain anticipation with Risada

    Working with the reasons behind aggression to strangers… When we experience pain there will be an association that goes with that pain. It could be a wasp landing on us and we anticipate a sting because we were stung once before. We slipped down a few carpeted steps once and hurt our back, so now…

  • Looking at limitations and boundaries with Querida

    Looking at limitations and boundaries with Querida

    Querida was up first to the shelters and it was a cool morning, so I thought it would be great to have a little peace time with her and see where the conversation led. In the last couple of weeks we have shared a lot of feelings. Mostly anger, frustration, annoyance, stubbornness, and feelings 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…

  • Acknowledging the cribbing habit

    Acknowledging the cribbing habit

    Progressing with Timmy after releasing trauma and frustration and finding trust in the conversation.. We have released the trauma and processed. We have worked with the Tiger that was released and made peace with the frustration that emerged amongst other things. On the 4th July 2022 I decided to start to try and engage with…

  • Your animal is your best friend, but are you his/hers?

    Your animal is your best friend, but are you his/hers?

    A bit about detachment As I have been studying to be a Trust Technique Practitioner, I have been getting some experience practicing the process with animals other than my own family of horses, dog and cat. It has been a really interesting journey for me. I have a lot of work to do to pull…

  • Timmy: Working with the Tiger

    Timmy: Working with the Tiger

    I haven’t written for a while as I have been working on improving how I work with ‘Sharing Peace of Mind’, and understanding the different type of reactions that come up when peace cannot be obtained because of loads of other things that are going on that are not allowing peace in. For example pain,…