Articles about information I find educational or just plain cool!

How can massage and tail pulls help your horse stop rubbing its tail? 

I am sort of a nerd when massaging horses, I tend to spend a good 10-15 minutes massaging the tail and surrounding muscles, performing range of motion exercises and doing tail pulls. I have found that this routine has helped some of my client’s horse’s stop rubbing their tails. They have tried everything to make […]

Massage Guns- Do they help or hurt?

By Lisa Turcotte, CEMT Our clients want to do the best for their animals, otherwise they wouldn’t be our clients. Often this leads to those same owners trying products they’ve heard about or seen on the internet or at other barns. One of those items is the percussion massage gun. These guns go by various […]

Are you using your horse’s brain?

Currently I am reading a book entitled “Horse Brain Human Brain The Neuroscience of Horsemanship” by Janet L. Jones, Ph.D. Jones has taught the neuroscience of perception, language memory and thought. Additionally, she has a successful horse training business. The main thrust of her book is how similar and more importantly how different our brains […]