How Can I Enjoy My Horse?

How To Make Your Horse Enjoy Riding Learn to notice when your horse isn’t having fun. Be sure to give your horse praise. Check your riding cues. Change your horse’s thinking, not their action. Mix up your routine. Ride your horse somewhere else. Try different riding disciplines. Set up an Read more…

What Is A Pony Person?

noun A man who looks after ponies, or has charge of ponies in a caravan, etc. What does it mean to call someone a pony? pony (plural ponies) (Cockney rhyming slang) Crap; rubbish, nonsense. What does pony mean as an insult? Meaning: Rubbish; nonsense, or ‘of poor quality’. Often shortened Read more…

Can Catholics Eat Horses?

Many Catholic European nations are quite OK with eating horse. The aversion to horsemeat is an Anglo-Saxon peculiarity. Maybe the Anglo-Saxons regarded the horse as a sacred animal. Can Catholics eat horse meat? Taboos. In 732 AD, Pope Gregory III began a concerted effort to stop the ritual consumption of Read more…

Do Horses Lick Wounds?

Dogs, cats, small rodents, horses, and primates all lick wounds. Saliva contains tissue factor which promotes the blood clotting mechanism. Do horses lick other horses wounds? If another horse is attracted to a wound as you describe, it usually indicates the presence of aromatic exudate produced in response to a Read more…

Do Horses Get Ptsd From War?

However, humans aren’t the only ones who re-experience the hell of war long after it’s been won or lost. Experts believe horses also suffer from PTSD. What happened to horses after ww1? At the end of the war some of the surviving horses were sold as meat to Belgian butchers, Read more…