I was reminded just recently about how important it is to keep our gut healthy, and to give it extra attention when our bodies are out of balance. And, of all things, it was one of my horses that red-flagged the issue for me and […]

Can hemp oil replace Previcox© for pain in animals?

Something happened today that brought this question to mind. No. It brought something like a KNOWING to mind: that Mustangs–even those domesticated and in captivity–share what’s known as a “group mind.” If you’ve ever watched a large school of fish swimming, or birds flying, then […]

This doesn’t mean what it sounds like, so bear with me. While the tragedy of losing 19 firefighters in Arizona was still fresh in everyone’s minds in the summer of 2013, I happened upon a radio interview of an elder shaman from one of the […]

“A rose by any other name is still a rose.”  … Shakespeare Can the same be said about the Mustang? Apparently not. I recently read an interesting article about “feral horses,” and how they are not Mustangs, and since I am always eager to learn […]

Here’s my theory:  If you have a horse who was living wild on the land before he was captured, then you have a horse who is not afraid of going out on the trail. As any horse person knows, there are horses who are just […]

In the wild a Mustang herd always has one alpha stallion and one alpha mare. Although the mare can be “stolen” by a competing stallion, the stallion-mare bond is very strong. I saw that borne out yesterday when we had to say goodbye to our […]

You know what I’m talking about if you are a Mustang devotee. Once you really know a Mustang, you’ve definitely been had — in a good way. Other horses just don’t quite compare. Now don’t get me wrong. I have several other types of horses, […]

Fasting. Ugh. I hate it. I have tried it a few times and simply cannot accommodate it in any way, shape, or form — bodily, sensorily (is that a word?), or philosophically. Cleanses, yes. Fasts, no. Perhaps it is just me, or my constitutional make-up. […]

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 […]