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We don't have a throwaway problem, do we?

This week Anna sat down with Theresa Demarest and Katherine Gregory to talk about Throw Away Horses, a new documentary on Amazon Prime and on Vimeo worldwide. Theresa is the filmmaker (she made Keiko:…

May 22·4 min read·618 words

13 owners and not one came forward

One arrived with a microchip logging 13 registered owners. Billy contacted every single one. Not one was interested.

May 10·4 min read·617 words

Free lessons, funded by followers: is this what saves British riding schools?

What Chloe has built is not a charity. It is a third economic model. The content funds the sessions; the sessions generate more content; the community grows and the riding school fills with paying cli…

May 3·1 min read·53 words

The supplier was almost embarrassed to charge what he had to

The hay in your horse's net tonight may have crossed three borders. Someone lost sleep making sure it got here.

Apr 23·1 min read·31 words

The wrong question we ask about horse-human partnership

Communication in this tradition is less about training methods that produce compliance and more about building the kind of trust and mutual understanding where the horse can actually choose to partici…

Apr 6·1 min read·39 words

What your horse's "ticklishness" is actually telling you

The conversation covers horse massage as a practical tool for owners, not just professionals. Three checks you can do every week (grooming reactions, carrot stretches in both directions, a tight circl…

Mar 22·1 min read·56 words

She's Helped Horses in 26 Countries With Tape

The Woman Rewriting Equine Rehabilitation 30 Years, 26 Countries, & Rolls of Tape.

Mar 6·1 min read·21 words

Wild horse behaviour: what 20 years of research reveals about domestic horses.

When Bonny Mealand first started working with wild horses, everything she thought she knew fell apart. Anna Louise asked how that felt. Bonny paused. "It was devastating, actually." She'd grown up li…

Feb 18·1 min read·91 words

Swapping hay? Horse nutritionist explains why it takes 7-10 days

But Claire’s advice was practical. She calls it the "Overlap Strategy." It means keeping just three or four bales of the old batch back, specifically to mix in when the new load arrives. It is a tiny …

Jan 31·1 min read·61 words

The native ponies we are losing

The rare breed ponies Britain is losing — and what disappears with them

Jan 21·1 min read·19 words