Watch these links, they are all fun...

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=966_1187636093

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=2&res=9D05E5DA133BEE3ABC4951DFB667838C609EDE&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

http://birdloversonly.blogspot.com/2007/09/may-i-have-this-dance.html

http://www.superstarsofhorsetraining.com/horse-interview/screensaver.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmmsr7PAhWU&NR=1

Education links:

Emergency care: http://www.bayerequineconnection.com/Main/General_Care/emergency_care.cfm

Natural Horsemanship: http://www.naturalhorsetraining.com/WhatIsNH.html

Horse keeping: http://www.horsekeeping.com/Horse_Newsletter/June_2004.htm

Body conditions rating: http://www.slide.com/r/Mf2y_tuX7j8odDXid7ezwMrlrlktRvuN?referrer=emci&view=true

Tendon Injuries: http://www.vetpro.co.nz   Click on Equine Vet Talk button for many subjects!

Teeth: http://horses-arizona.com/pages/articles/teeth.html  or http://www.answers.com/topic/horse-teeth

EPM: http://www.wisconsinequineclinic.com/html/EPM.htm

http://www.gokart.net/shop-utopia/ahorse/vet.html

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/drfenger/clinsign.htm

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/drfenger/treatmen.htm

http://meadowherbs.com/articleEPM.htm

http://www.extension.umn.edu/horse/components/pdfs/ProtozoalMyeloencephalitisClientHandout.pdf

http://www.indianahorserescue.com/epm/Our%20EPM%20Conclusion%20Report.htm
 

Colic: http://www.equusite.com/articles/health/healthColicFacts.shtml
http://meadowherbs.com/articleEPM.htm

Everything!: http://www.equusite.com/equ4/health.html

Navicular: http://www.equinenaturaltherapy.com/navicular_syndrome.htm

Laminitis: http://thehorse.com/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=8856 and http://www.olympus.net/personal/pvd/pvd.html (go to website then read to bottom of page - then click continue - on next page has a sequence of events with diagrams - seems pretty accurate/ good summary of during & after care.)

Uveitis:  http://www.animaleyecare.net/diseases/equine_uveitis.htm

Poisonous Plants: http://ohioline.osu.edu/b762/b762_25.html

Cushings:  http://www.equisearch.com/horses_care/health/illnesses_injuries/managing_cushings_disease_042709/

Hoof Abscess: http://www.equisearch.com/resources/expert/hoof_abscess_061909/

Coughing: http://equisearch.com/horses_care/health/illnesses_injuries/bad_cough_121608/

All sorts of great know how, check this out:

http://www.tractorsupply.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/WcmDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10551&catalogId=10001&contentName=%2ftractorsupply%2fknowhow%2fknowhowcentralpage

This is a fantastic site:

www.thesoulofahorse.com This is our philosophy and we thank Joe Camp for writing for the horses! Be sure to buy his book The Soul of a Horse.

Our favorite trainers:

http://markrashid.com/index.html

http://www.parelli.com   

http://www.montyroberts.com/

Please view their sites, read their books and apply the knowledge.

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Lone Ranger & Tonto


The Lone Ranger and Tonto went camping in the desert.
After they got their tent all set up, both men fell sound asleep.

Some hours later, Tonto wakes the Lone Ranger and
says, "Kemo Sabe, look towards sky, what you see? "

"The Lone Ranger replies, "I see millions of stars."

"What that tell you?" asked Tonto.

The Lone Ranger ponders for a minute then says,
"Astronomically speaking, it tells me there are
millions of galaxies and potentially billions of
planets. Astrologically, it tells me that Saturn is in
Leo. Time wise, it appears to be approximately a
quarter past three in the morning. Theologically, the
Lord is all-powerful and we are small and insignificant.
Meteorologically, it seems we will have a beautiful
day tomorrow. What's it tell you, Tonto?"

"You dumber than buffalo dung. It means someone stole the tent. "
 

Live simply.                                                        
Love generously.
Care deeply.
Speak kindly.
Leave the rest to God.

She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line tugging in her mouth.

A fisherman spotted her just east of the Faralon Islands (outside the Golden Gate) and radioed for help.

Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so bad off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her --

a very dangerous proposition.  One slap of the tail could kill a rescuer.




They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her.

When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles.
She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, nudged them, and pushed gently, thanking them.

Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives.



The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth says her eye was following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.


May you, and all those you love, be so fortunate...
To be surrounded by people who will help you get untangled from the things that are binding you.
And, may you always know the joy of giving and receiving gratitude.
 

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Voice of the Voiceless

I am the voice of the voiceless:
  Through me, the dumb shall speak;
Till the deaf world's ear be made to hear
  The cry of the wordless weak.
From street, from cage, and from kennel,
  From jungle and stall, the wail
Of my tortured kin proclaims the sin
  Of the mighty against the frail.

I am a ray from the centre;
  And I will feed God's spark,
Till a great light glows in the night and shows
  The dark deeds done in the dark.
And full on the thoughtless sleeper
  Shall flash its glaring flame,
Till he wakens to see what crimes may be
  Cloaked under an honoured name.

The same force formed the sparrow
  That fashioned Man, the King;
The God of the Whole gave a spark of soul
  To each furred and feathered thing.
And I am my brother's keeper,
  And I will fight his fight,
And speak the word for beast and bird,
  Till the world shall set things right.

Let no voice cavil at Science -
  The strong torch-bearer of God;
For brave are his deeds, though dying creeds,
   Must fall where his feet have trod.
But he who would trample kindness
   And mercy into the dust -
He has missed the trail and his quest will fail:
   He is not the guide to trust.

For love is the true religion,
  And love is the law sublime;
And all that is wrought, where love is not,
  Will die at the touch of time.
And Science, the great revealer,
  Must flame his torch at the Source;
And keep it bright, with that holy light
  Or his feet shall fail on the course.

Oh, never a brute in the forest,
  And never a snake in the fen,
Or ravening bird, starvation stirred,
  Has hunted its prey like men.
For hunger, and fear, and passion
  Alone drive beasts to slay,
But wonderful man, the crown of the plan,
  Tortures, and kills, for play.

He goes well fed from his table;
  He kisses his child and wife;
Then he haunts a wood, till he orphans a brood,
  Or robs a deer of its life.
He aims at a speck in the azure;
  Winged love, that has flown at a call;
It reels down to die, and he lets it lie;
  His pleasure was seeing it fall.

And one there was, weary of laurels,
  Of burdens and troubles of State;
So the jungle he sought, with the beautiful thought
  Of shooting a she lion's mate.
And one came down from the pulpit,
  In the pride of a duty done,
And his cloth sufficed, as his emblem of Christ,
  While murder smoked out of his gun.

One strays from the haunts of fashion
  With an indolent, unused brain;
But his sluggish heart feels a sudden start
  In the purpose of giving pain.
And the fluttering flock of pigeons,
  As they rise on eager wings,
From prison to death, bring a catch in his breath:
  Oh the rapture of killing things!

Now, this is the race as we find it,
  Where love, in the creed, spells hate;
And where bird and beast meet a foe in the priest
  And in rulers of fashion and State.
But up to the Kingdom of Thinkers
  Has risen the cry of our kin;
And the weapons of thought are burnished and brought
  To clash with the bludgeons of sin.

For Christ, of a million churches,
  Come near to the earth again;
Be more than a Name; be a living Flame;
  "Make Good" in the hearts of men.
Shine full on the path of  Science,
  And show it the heights above,
Where vast truths lie for the searching eye
  That shall follow the torch of love.

Poems of Experience. By Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
London: Gay and Hancock, Ltd., 1913. 

If you are unfamiliar with horses, please watch this video of two otters!  Two horses bond JUST LIKE THIS!  We deal with this every day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epUk3T2Kfno

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I yanked these off the barn walls because this is stuff you need to know! Forgive the condition of the paperwork!  Some pieces are quite old!