Extend Your Horse’s stride

…for extending your horse’s strides at the walk, trot and canter applies equally to the horses you ride at home. Before You Begin Lengthening your horse’s stride is a relatively…

Stand for Fly Spray

…the horse to give to pressure easily. Continue to work with the horse until you can spray the air without the horse objecting. Then position the horse and turn the…

Manage your horse to live longer

…things that can be prevented through proper care when the horse is young,” says Robert Judd, DVM, of Hewitt, Texas. If you acquire a horse when he’s already elderly, there’s…

An ID Kit for Your Horse

…take horses from private property, horse shows, boarding stables and a variety of other places. (See the June 2004 issue of Perfect Horse.) Natural disasters. Horses are sometimes separated from…

Trailer-Loading Trouble

…tapping as a reward. If the person stops tapping and tries to pull the horse forward when the horse backs up, the horse gets confused and doesn’t recognize that the…

Horse Camping

…their horses’ hooves, horse-campers seem especially willing, ready and able to help newcomers. Second, has your horse ever camped? Some horses readily adapt to camping. It’s like they do it…

When horse theft is not a “crime”

…“Civil theft” is, legally speaking, quite different than criminal theft, which is the type of crime that occurs when someone cuts your fence and removes a horse from your property…

Controlling Movement (Part IV)

…you rub your horse on both sides of the physical pressure. Let the first contact you make with your horse be a reassuring rub. Rub until your horse accepts the…

6 Things to Know Before You Adopt a Rescue Horse

…start choosing a horse.  3. Start Horse Shopping  Most organized rescues’ websites feature the horses ready to be adopted. But they’ll likely also have horses not yet on the website,…