25 Ways To Have Fun With Your Horse

Welcome to February...and a heat wave or a drenching depending on where you live! Great info for you this week and some brand new books too!

Have More Fun With Your Horse - In January 2009 Horse & Rider gave you over 25 great ideas on how to enjoy your horse on a budget. Here are the resources promised in that article. Worth a good look since there are plenty of great ideas here.

Here's the wrap up report from last weeks Royal Melbourne Horse Show - goodness knows how they survived the heat...and the tennis fans.

Learning From Wild Horses - The third guest post in a 3 part series put together by Eleanor D. Van Natta. This one is on health and nutrition. Interesting.

The cavesson headcollar or headstall is a simple but strongly made bitless bridle with a low fitting, padded noseband, throatlatch and, in some cases, a browband - if you've never heard of it or seen it,
it's an interesting piece of horse tack.

Here's a blog on natural horsemanship which I found very instructive and practical....and down to earth too unlike some of the wacky horse blogs around. There's some 15+ language though.....Here's great post about 'The Horse training Video from Hell'.

EquiSearch's Ask the Vet looks at a 'Grumpy Horse'.
In this edition of EquiSearch.com's Ask the Vet, Dr. Joyce Harman suggests cutting out sweet feed and checking for pain to help a grumpy horse improve his attitude.

Horse Jobs - Stall Cleaner. This is a position usually found in larger establishments with many animals to look after. It is often a starting point for someone looking to earn experience around horses. Not my ideal job but worth a look if you are heading for a career that way.

Here's the February 1, 2009 edition of 'Carnival of the Horse' from Blog Carnival. This is the second carnival this year and it's a great list of new horse blogs with tons of info on all kinds of horsey things. OK, so I'm not on this one but then it's American - but I will be listing for the next!

Monty Roberts makes the argument that looking a horse in the eye drives him away, that it is interpreted by the horse as a challenge. But is it? There are ways and means to do anything as you'll read here

We have some great new horse books available including two from Mark Rashid - 'Horses Never Lie' and 'A Good Horse Is Never A Bad Colour.' If you haven't heard of Mark then you can read more here.
All our books are 20% off list price of course as I share my wholesaler margin with you 50/50.

Have a great week!