December 12 Blog Wranglin' Wednesdays - Not Awesome, Possum horses, colorado dude ranch, horsemanship, western riding, equine diseases, illnesses [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="300"] The culprit.[/caption] Whoa, readers! These last few days have been a whirlwind of packing, room dust, and more packing. Moving is hard! Enough complaining, though, because this week's subject is pretty important, at least to me. EPM. Kind of run-of-the-mill, yeah? Gimme' a chance to explain how it's not. Horses getting sick can be scary, because you may not know what's going on at first, or may not know what exactly is wrong. ...
December 11 Blog The Glorious World Wide Web: A Rider's Guide horses, College, Inspiration, Show riding, Stress, Time Constraints, Youtube John French and Rumba Alright friends, I hope you are nearly set on your preparations, decorations, and salutations for the holidays! My breaks begins tomorrow, and I honestly cannot wait to put this incredibly hard semester behind me. This week will be a more practical lesson, considering my previous posts were more emotionally driven, so I'm trying this out. Feedback would be much appreciated if you would be so kind as to comment below. A little less than a year ago I was ...
December 5 Blog Wranglin' Wednesdays - Go Against The Grain! horses, colorado dude ranch, horsemanship, western riding, equestrian, horse, wranglin' wednesdays How's it going, audience? Good? Good. Me, I'm sitting here on my living room couch, procrastinating on packing my room up until the last minute, as usual. As I sat, I thought of something: hey, wouldn't my blog readers like to read about how to catch a difficult horse in the pasture? I don't know, do you? Too late! Right about now, y'all are probably going "Katie, you don't know anything about horses, do you? All you need is some grain!", but everybody knows I like to do ...
November 28 Blog Wranglin' Wednesdays - Sack Your Horse! Dude Ranch, horses, horseback riding, horsemanship, western riding, equestrian, horse, equitation Oh no, it's that time again! Time for Katie to tell y'all some ridiculous fact, or rant about why you should, or shouldn't, do that whatever it is with your horse. What I wanna' discuss this week is sacking out your horse. Maybe not so ridiculous after all? Sacking out, in essence, is desensitizing a horse to stimulus; loud noises, cars, gunfire, and other things. It is imperative to the safety of you, your horse, and others around you, but best of all, it's really ...
November 23 Blog Jenny the Mule horses, ranch, jenny, mule So here I am, again. Yeah, I spent some time wondering, again, about what I should write about this week. Is this sounding familiar? You don't have to worry, this post won't be just like last week's post. Which makes me worry, because I can't write exactly what I wrote last week. Which makes me panic a little, because, evidently, my post last week was somewhat popular and I am not going to be able to follow that winner up. So, seeing that I have no chance of writing something great ...