Adrenaline Adrenaline plays a huge role in the behavior of horses. Because they are prey animals their adrenaline switch is very easy to turn on and quite hard to turn off. In the wild their survival depends on first noticing danger as quickly as possible and then reacting to it by running away very fast. [...]
Oh boy! Wonderful, exciting and terrifying all at the same time. For those horse owners lucky, or unlucky, enough to live in a part of the world that experiences winter, spring fever is a real and all too recognizable phenomenon. During the months of freezing cold, with ice, hard ruts and rotten snow covering the [...]
By Natalie DeFee Mendick Published in Equine Journal “The work you do in the arena is as important as the work you do on the trail, and vice versa. Horses need both; horses need balance.” –Cathy Drumm Who says all schooling has to take place in an arena? Time on the trail offers a change [...]
