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Brio’s Journey: Part 5

Here is a new Chapter from Brio’s owner. When I met this horse, she was good with me at first and then finally started to reveal the patterns her owner had been describing. I witnessed some of the most “Confrontational” behavior I’d seen in this horse. People ask me how do I know if a […]

Equine Body Awareness

As a trainer, I am constantly aware of my body, body language on and off the horse, and the horses’ body and language. You might think that horses are always aware of their own bodies but they are quite frequently “out of their bodies”. This can be for a lot of reasons. It can be […]

Mercury part 2

We last left off with Mercury just being dropped off by the breeder. Apparently, unable to be halter broke. He was herded into the trailer and dropped into a paddock at the farm. I found that he was extremely skittish and described him like a deer. He was, I’m sure bewildered and shocked by the […]

Mercury part 1

The photo is of Mercury as a yearling. He still can’t resist a camera! In your life, some very special beings will come along. 2 legged and 4 legged. In my life, I have had the privilege of working with many great 4 leggeds and 2 leggeds. But once in a while a soul mate […]

Boundaries

Training falls into two categories for me. Technical and Behavioral. What do I see the most of? Behavioral. Because when a horse says “No” to technical training, It then becomes behavioral. I wont get into why a horse says No to technical training now because that is a whole other topic. I always tell people […]

FDH Intro to Liberty Class, Greenville, NY May 18

May 18, 2014 – May 18, 2014 289 County road 409 Map and Directions | Register Description: This clinic is a full day workshop class on the basic Liberty foundation exercises I use for all my Training. Liberty Training is and important and missing ingredient in all our relationships with our horses. This work is […]

Exciting new stuff

Some of you may have already heard about my new website, membership site and FDH School in the works. As we speak I am writing my blog from the new website. There is absolutely tons going on at FDH I can’t even write it all because it’s so much! Again, I thank everyone for their […]