We had a great day playing with the horses on Saturday. Meghan got to ride Tex for a little while and they both did great! She is hopefully going to adopt him at the end of the school year. Tex has had about a dozen rides at this point, most of them bareback. However, I’ve […]
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Students Form Special Bond with Rescue Horses
Our rescue made the front page of the Waxahachie Daily Light (the local paper) on Friday. We’ve uploaded the article to the rescue’s website, so you can check it out here: Ferris High School students form special bond with rescue horses Ferris High School, one of the local high schools, has a large agriculture and […]
A Sunny Weekend
April is here, and with it, plenty of sunshine and bluebonnets in Texas! I’ll have to get some pictures for the blog, the bluebonnets are in full bloom here, as well as some of the other early wildflowers. I had a fun time yesterday playing in the sun with the horses. March was a whirlwind […]
A Sunday Walk in March
We had several volunteers on Sunday, so we took five of the horses on a walk down the road. The weather was absolutely lovely and the walk was a lot of fun for both humans and horses! Walking can be very beneficial for horse and human. It’s great exercise and it also helps younger horses […]
Life’s Ruff for Homeless Pets (your help is needed!)
Life can be rough for shelter dogs. Thousands of dogs enter shelters every day, many because of behavior or training problems that could have been fixable. Marine Mammal trainer Chris Dignan is on a mission to help shelter dogs by educating pet owners and promoting positive training methods. Life’s Ruff is an entertaining and very […]
Ransom meets the horses and a report on February
February was busier than I thought is was going to be! Sorry for the lack of posts the past two weeks, I was busy with a conference, traveling to a clinic, and then catching up on school work. The good part, though, is I have lots of interesting things to think about and write about […]