Just What the Heck Is Natural Horsmanship?

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NATURAL HORSEMANSHIP For more than 6000 years, man tried to bridge the chasm between his own species, the ultimate predator, and the horse, the ultimate prey animal.  Man needed the horse to be a servant. The horse was programmed to be anything but a servant.  The man adopted his most efficient tool, brute force.  It was the basis of horsemanship practiced by the common man for millennia. We had early natural horsemen: Simon of Athens (400B.C.), Xenophon (430-355) and Alexander the Great are the names most well-known  by natural horsemanship…

Nova is a Blessing

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Snow in Missouri.  Stacks and stacks of it.  My truck and trailer have been buried.  I forgot how to ride a horse in six weeks. This was a big day.  I got the truck and trailer out of the snow drifts.  Now to get the horse out of the barn.  There's still a foot of snow out there and it's hard to walk thru. I tried to open the barn door. Drat, the cord that hangs on the door was buried in 3" of ice.  I hacked and hacked with…