Let's talk a bit about using positive punishment. Positive Punishment is the application of an aversive stimulus after a behaviour to...

“Making the wrong thing hard and the right thing easy” A common saying in the Natural Horsemanship circles and one that in my own opinion...

Hitting horses as a response to lipping, nibbling, nipping, biting etc. is quite a hotly debated topic. Unfortunately, it’s still a very commonly used approach, even if it shouldn’t be. People are worried that if they don’t “correct” their horses immediately, it means that their horses will become more aggressive and will resort to biting in the future. And in some cases this may indeed be true! For example if the horse is trying to communicate something, and the person isn’t

I practice Force-Free Horsemanship. Today I want to talk a bit about what Force-Free means to me. Force-free, to me, means without...