So, at long last here is the first installment in the story of ‘U’ my recently acquired 14-year-old Lusitano gelding. He had spent most of his life, the last seven or so years at least, travelling and doing shows. He was kept in a stall and though he got out several times a day, he rarely got to go outside and play and run about in the sun and the dirt and just be a horse. His owners allowed me to have him because they thought he had done a great job and it was time for him t

Happy New Year and welcome to 2015. With a new year comes a new blog topic. Late in 2014, I was given a lovely horse, “U” and he will be the topic for the most part for the blog for this year. He is what we call in clicker training a cross-over horse, as he was trained with negative reinforcement and is now coming to the world of positive reinforcement, a world without escalating pressure or fear of doing something wrong. This is a huge change for him and it will be, I’m s