Discover the essential guide every horse owner needs when faced with sickness, injury, or emergency. Written with practicality and affordability in mind, this comprehensive handbook offers step-by-step solutions that are both effective and easy to follow. Learn why traditional methods like fresh water hosing can actually hinder healing, and uncover superior alternatives using simple, home-available ingredients that not only accelerate recovery but also save on veterinary expenses. From managing viral and bacterial issues to treating wounds and recognizing colic symptoms, this book covers it...

Lissa Bachner was born with a passion for horses and won her first blue ribbon at age five. Other awards would follow as a young rider, and for years Lissa trained with jumpers, tackling more difficult leaps, and working to perfect her ride. When blindness struck in her teens, it appeared her passion for riding would come to an end. How could she jump hurdles when she could barely navigate through her own home? But success, trust, and love came to Lissa when her trainer convinced her to buy a "diamond in the rough" from Germany.

Grant Golliher is what some would call a “horse whisperer”, able to get a wild horse to calmly accept a saddle and a rider in just hours without the use of force. Through training thousands of horses, many traumatized or abused, Golliher was able to learn essential lessons about communication, boundaries, fairness, trust, and respect to foster more fulfilled relationships, and in turn, create a richer life.

Leadership teacher Kelly Wendorf offers a new approach to leading and living inspired by two profound sources of ancient wisdom: original peoples and Equus (the horse), grounded in evidence-based principles of neuroscience. In her groundbreaking EQUUS training program, Wendorf teaches a way of leadership modeled on a 56 million-year-old system of the horse herd - a path that has allowed humans and horses alike to survive the kinds of global and societal threats we now face, such as climate change and mass extinction.

Everything you wish you had known before you got your first horse! And many AHA moments for experienced horse owners. Do you ever wonder, "What is my horse really feeling? If your horse could talk, they might say things like: "I have a spasm in my back and it won't go away." “I can't move the way you're asking me to, it hurts." “My right shoulder can't move correctly, so cantering on that side is very painful." "I feel so gassy and bloated, I just want to lay down and roll." "My teeth haven't been balanced properly and it hurts to chew." "My vision has been bad since I banged my head, ...