Think Like A Horse

Understanding The Horse -- Helps The Horse

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Howdy, this site is dedicated to the horse.  I put it together to help educate & promote horse awareness, good horsemanship and hopefully improve the life of the Horse.  The old "macho tough cowboy" style of horse training is long gone.  Those who still practice this style are not true horsemen.  I believe in, endorse and practice Natural Horsemanship.  This site provides information and gives my ideas of good horsemanship and what I believe is good for the horse.  I hope it provides solutions and possible alternatives to get better results from your horse.  It is not the only way, it is what I have learned over the years and what works for me and many others.  Read the site and I promise you will learn something you did not know about the horse.  I hope you  read it, enjoy it, hope you learn from it and hope it helps your horse.  If you read and study the information in this site, you can bet that you will have more information and knowledge than a lot of people that have "owned horse's their entire life".  Items in Blue are links and will take you to another page with additional information.  The site currently has over 400 typed pages of information about the horse.

I answer questions about horse problems and issues on AllExperts and other web sites, I also write articles for a few other web sites, Pet Place Station and Equestrian Life are a couple.  I noticed a trend in horse questions and found myself repeating many of the same answers.  Click Here to read the most asked question I get.  If you are interested in hosting a clinic, click on my Clinics on Request page.

This site provides information about the horse, its history and the way it thinks.  I hope to promote horsemanship through knowledge.  The pages on the left have the following information; Horse History is about how horses have been used by man over the ages and very interesting horse facts about understanding a horse and where they have come from;  Horseman Tips discuss little things that can help you help your horse and help you become a more knowledgeable horseman;  Horsemanship discusses topics in more detail like herd behavior, training issues, sacking out and buying your first horse; Rope Halters discuss the benefits of rope halters, how to tie them and why buckles and snaps are bad for a horse; Tying a horse talks about good and bad ways of tying a horse, what to avoid, why it is so important to teach a horse to tie and many different knots;  Bad horsemanship is about bad things done to a horse that end up hurting a horse and setting them up for failure and all the crazy advice you get from horse owners; Cowboy Quotes are a list of some good old country sayings that are still true today and a list of over a 100 sayings and quotes about horses;  Bosals and Hackamores is about using and understanding a bosal for the benefit of the horse and why I think bitless bridles are better than metal bits;  Trailer Loading is about problems with horses, people and trailers;  Training Videos has links to Youtube videos with a narrative explaining why the horse did what it did and why it is never the horse's fault; Hobbles discuss why teaching your horse to hobble can help in many other ways and discusses how to introduce hobbles to your horse; A horse's Prayer is a prayer from the horse to his owner; Cowboy Weather is some neat ways to help predict weather while out on the trail, it discusses how weather was predicted before current technology; Sites & Links are just some other good horse sites that I think have good information about horses; Horse Anatomy Pictures  has many pictures of a horse with parts named and how to tell how old a horse is from his teeth;  Rick's Photos has pictures of me and horses at different locations; Horse Gear Defined explains some common horse gear and how it is used; Horse Articles has links to some of my articles and other articles I find helpful; Answers to Questions has a bunch of my answers that I have given to different questions; Misc Horse Info has general information about horses, how to draw a horse and other stuff;  Lastly Contact Rick page is my email to contact me with a question, comment or suggestion. 

**Computer Tips For Site**:  This site is large and has a lot of information, so here is a couple of tips to help you find what you are looking for.  1) Enlarge pictures and text; at the bottom right corner of your screen you will see a tab with 100% and an upside down triangle, click on the triangle and then you can enlarge or zoom on any page.  Most pictures can be seen at the 150% level.  2) Find a word; If are looking for a specific word or topic hold down the Ctrl key and press F (find), a pop up bar will appear, then type the word you are looking for, there is a "next" button to the right of where you typed the word, each time you click next, the next place the word appears will be highlighted. This is only for the current page you are on, it will not search the entire site at once but can search each page. 

If you like the site and think it is helpful, feel free to add my link to your favorite sites so the information can be shared.  Enjoy the site and I hope it is beneficial to you and your horse. 

Thanks to everyone for your kind words and comments about the site.  It is nice to see that the site is being viewed and helping horses in Wales, Canada, Spain, New Zealand, South Africa and many other locations.  I don't do this for money, I do it for my love of the horse! 

Happy trails,

Rick 

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