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5 Tips to Keep Your Dogs Safe Around Horses (and vice versa!)

July 19, 2021 emotion, fear, dog

Do you share your life with both horses and dogs? Here are a few tips that will keep your companions safe when they meet!

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Opportunity for you/your horse to appear in Good Horse educational videos

February 7, 2019February 27, 2019 fear, horse emotion, horse psychology, human emotion

Would you be interested in taking part in the creation of Good Horse videos? Get in touch to see how you could get involved!

Can we prevent trigger stacking?

January 22, 2019January 22, 2019 emotion, fear, horse psychology, training

We can’t control everything – but are there ways that we can help prepare our horse to stay calm under pressure and be less affected by the unexpected?

Trigger Stacking: how little things add up to cause a big reaction

January 9, 2019January 23, 2019 fear, horse psychology, training, stress

Explosive behaviour often has multiple underlying causes. The challenge is learning to identify these before they add up and cause a big reaction.

Managing Your Anxiety in the Saddle

December 24, 2018 fear, training, equestrian, riding

Two strategies to help you deal with riding-related anxiety and nerves.

What makes a great riding student?

December 24, 2018 fear, training, equestrian, riding

Have you ever wondered what your riding instructor expects from you? These are the things that I think make a great riding student.

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Loading doesn’t have to be scary

January 21, 2017May 24, 2020 fear, training, treats, empathy

Why don’t horses like loading? Can you do anything about it? How a positive approach can help your horse overcome their fear and learn to love loading.

Gril trying to load a horse. She has bad timing and is using excessive force. Horse is rearing. Still taken from a video.

Empathy failure: Bad timing and excessive force

January 21, 2017October 20, 2017 fear, horse emotion, horse psychology, training

This video has been circulating on Facebook recently and is a graphic example of someone failing to empathise with the

A lesson from the dog training world

January 17, 2017January 25, 2017 care, fear, health, training

People often wonder how you can keep a horse cooperative if what you want to do to them is objectively

Taming Thowra: A Midwinter Tale

January 9, 2017October 14, 2017 fear, training, handling, unhandled

Thowra is a very sweet mare whose owner was misled when she purchased her unseen and ended up with an adult unhandled horse that didn’t trust people…

Why excitement is probably not why your horse is strong under saddle

December 21, 2016February 19, 2017 fear, horse emotion, horse psychology, training

Like most animals, horses prefer to conserve their energy for those moments when their survival really depends on it. So why do some horses get “strong”?

Learned Fear

December 4, 2015January 15, 2017 fear, horse psychology, training, show jumping

What should you do when your horse refuses a jump? Why responding with a smack or a ‘pony club kick’ may not be the best way to go…

The Unexpected Benefits of Spooking

December 2, 2015January 22, 2019 fear, horse psychology, spooking, training

Spooking can be scary, funny or frustrating. But why do horses spook, and is there a silver lining (Horse: AAAGH A SILVER LINING!!!) to this behaviour?