Do Horse Walkers Cause Stress, and Can we Reduce it by Exercising Horses Together?

by Joshua | Jul 21, 2018 | Horse

The isolation of equines has been proven to negatively affect their welfare (Mal et al., 1991 and Hartmann et al., 2011), with horses stabled with no contact showing significantly more stress than those in group living situations (Yarnell et al., 2015). Even with...

Therapy Animals

by Joshua | Oct 1, 2016 | Working Animals

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. – Maya Angelou One of the very first things I learned when I started visiting hospitals with a therapy dog was that...