If you’ve ever gone through a laminitis episode with one of your horses, whether acute and later resolved, or chronic and ongoing, you know what a nightmare it presents—both for you, the owner, and, more painfully, for your poor horse. More and more is being […]

I don’t know about you, but for me, 2013 really feels like a new beginning. I’m focusing on lots of new and creative projects, among them more published books on animal communication (including a children’s series) and rejuvenating my nutritional algae business, which I’ve had […]

This post by my dear friend and amazing holistic equine vet, Dr. Madalyn Ward, is too cute not to share. Especially since I have at least three or four friends who have horses with this type of personality. And I used to have one myself, […]

“A horse is a horse, of course, of course…,” Mr. Ed sang for his theme song, but did he fit the average horse mold? Not on your life! Horses have as diverse personalities as we humans do, and being able to identify them can really […]

1.  At dinner, eat very slowly — very. And do not lick your plate like you usually do. This should give them the first hint that something is not as it should be. 2.  At breakfast, eat a couple of bites … very slowly, then […]

If you’ve read this blog in the past, you may remember a bit about the little Quarter Horse mare I rescued back last November. We called her Lopeh. She came out of years of running pretty wild in a breeding herd, and she was only […]

I bought my very first piece of original art when I was in college — a French lithograph of a teeny, tiny boy standing behind a huge Percheron draft horse, holding her lead rope and yelling at her in French to “move her butt!” Which […]

Today let’s take a look at the Wood horse personality type. The element Wood in Traditional Chinese Medicine relates to, among other things, the liver and gallbladder, the eyes, connective tissue and, emotionally … anger (uh oh). I guess in the name of learning all […]