Be aware that when you are working with horses on a daily basis and dealing with the complications of working with their owners, the passion that once ignited you to follow your love of horses can diminish to barely a spark.
It is wise to take a step back and self-evaluate what we are doing as the horse’s caregiver because if we go blindly on our way, we create more unintended consequences, and fail to achieve anything useful.
âSeptember 30th marks the final day of the contest for stables introducing new riders to horses via beginner-friendly horse experiences in pursuit of $100,000 cash and prizes during The Time to Ride Challenge.â
Cavallo Horse & Rider Inc. has joined with the Equine Network, the nationâs leading publisher of horse-related content, as a partner in A Home to Every Horse, a national effort to help equines across the country in need of care and shelter.
In Britain, horse owners are being warned about fraud in the equine and pet cremation industry after a Somerset man duped horse owners into paying for individual cremations then disposed of their horses in other ways.
Members of the Homes for Horses Coalition are benefiting from a special horse training clinic that focused on rescue horses who can be difficult or dangerous.
Fortunately, the trend is to consider the well-being of the horse during training, and to use techniques that are based on scientifically sound evidence, resulting result in a tractable and usable riding horse.
Although the Forest Service has not stopped the roundup or committed to protecting horses from slaughter, they have extended holding time before selling them.
In the summer of 2014, Time to Ride ran a contest called the 100 Day Horse Challenge offering great prizes and marketing support to horse stables and groups who held events to allow non-horse people to have an experience with a horse.
Caring for the older horse population is becoming increasingly important, and yearly exams to monitor the comfort of senior horses is critical to providing healthy later chapters in a horse’s long, full life.