Our work as an organisation covers four main areas. Community outreach; environmental protection and paddock enrichment for our seven horses; force-free training and handling both taught and practiced; and our volunteer programmes:
Horse Training and Handling
Beyond basic care, we also need to give good examples of handling and training. Even experienced horse owners and riders may have much to learn. Many people have a perfunctory relationship with the horse where they just turn up to the stables and ride. Horse owners, too, often just ‘use’ their horses rather than develop a relationship with them.
Community Outreach
Astonishingly, these methods of equine keeping are more due to ignorance rather than an intentional wish to harm. One old man proudly showed me the many patches of white hairs around his mule’s withers, sides, under her girth and around her chin (all caused by ill-fitting tack and bad loading), boasting that these were a sign of what a good worker she was!