Don’t Call Them Disabled
Jennifer
September 1, 2012
Do I feel sorry for a person with a limp, a missing limb, or some other physical challenge? Yeah, I do — until that
Do I feel sorry for a person with a limp, a missing limb, or some other physical challenge? Yeah, I do — until that
(Excerpted from the August 2012 Cost Savings Special Issue) As a young woman in her 20s, my sister is learning about the full spectrum of
If you’ve ever read the Bible, or heard the story of Jesus Christ’s birth and how his mother rode into Bethlehem on the back of
Have you taken a “Horse Swimming Safety Course” with your local Red Cross? Of course not–there is not such a thing. In developed countries we
In all honestly I’m a mildly paranoid horse owner, likely because of the unending stream of horror stories about equine diseases, injuries, and ailments I’m
As smoke settled around our Bend, Ore., home Monday morning I hitched up the horse trailer just in case. Before my husband left for work,
Most horses are naturally curious about water and enjoy playing and splashing, especially on hot summer days. Going swimming with horses is nothing new, although
One of the challenges senior horse owners and riders sometimes face is the physical baggage that often accompanies their aging charges–especially when those horses’ histories
BLM Begins Process to Analyze Proposed Northeast Nevada Wild Horse Eco-Sanctuary ELKO, Nev. – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has published in the
This week TheHorse.com posted an article about illegal horse castrations going on in New Zealand. Not surprisingly, snickers rose from the company’s Production Department as
An integrated pest management program can help insects, such as flies and mosquitoes, from bugging you and your horses. Here are a few inexpensive tips.
Just days before the closing ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games, accredited media were finally invited to take a tour of the veterinary facilities.
Just as quick as they seemed to arrive, the equestrian events at the 2012 Olympic Games are in the history books. Before the Games, I
Exaggerated flexion of a horse’s poll and neck, although surely practiced in the past, became popularized (so to speak) in dressage in the 1980s when
None of the British team jumping gold medalists stood on the individual jumping medal podium today. Instead, one member each of the silver-medal Dutch
As I reported in a previous blog post, the Canadian jumper Victor was disqualified from the 2012 Olympic team jumping competition after failing a hypersensitivity
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