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Need a little inspiration about what to go out and teach your horse today? Well, this might give you a few ideas (best I mention here that we wouldn’t recommend attempting some of these ideas).  This was sent to us by Doreen from the Wild Horse Site. Be sure to check out her blog too.

The first track from Airs’ Moon Safari album, accompanied by scenes from a video shot from a streetcar traveling down Market Street in San Francisco in 1905. Before the earthquake/fire of 1906 destroyed much of San Francisco. Be sure to turn the music on – it adds to it somehow.

Some really cool looking horses in here. I can’t help but wonder how most of our horses would react to this street and some of the things in it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NINOxRxze9k

Trevor Brazile on Texaco No Bridle 7.8 Fort Worth Horse Show

Isn’t it fun to watch a horse that really likes to do it’s job?  Do you have a horse that loves his work or does her work bridleless?   Send us photos or links to your videos to lynn@northernhorse.com

Wild Deuce Drifter

The Wild Duece Girls spend a whole lot of time with their horses and get them used to things that most of us would never attempt. Although I certainly am not suggesting you all should go out and give this a try it shows what a horse can be trained to accept and no longer fear by people with the time and skills to bring him to this level.  I am posting links to 2 videos of Drifter. As you can see he has had extensive training before being asked to do this. Need a new trusty mount? I hear he is for sale. If he was mine he wouldn’t be.

Short Video

Longer Video

I would put a similar disclaimer on this as is on some car commercials. This is not to be attempted by non-professionals.  You not only need real horse training skills – you also need chain saw skills.  These people have both.

When we were kids, my brother Doug & I did “chores”. These chores weren’t just taking the garbage out but included hand milking a couple of cows and feeding a pen of calves. One of my memories of learning how to milk cows was that Dad & Mom each did it differently. Dad “dry milked” and Mom “wet milked”. To “wet milk” you simply squirted a little milk on your hand and rubbed it on the teat before milking so that it was wet and slippery. Dry milking is just what it sounds like. As I recall Dad and Mom could both get the bucket full in short order but there was always discussion about which method was more hygienic. I am guessing that hand milking cows is becoming a “lost art” in this country, but I’ll bet there are still lots of you who have milked a cow somewhere in your past. You might be interested in this video of a 32,000 cow dairy in the U.S. where you can watch the birth of some of the 80 calves born every day or the continuous milking parlour, etc. Perhaps a hint of the direction farming is heading?  http://tiny.cc/MBZfp

There seems to be a lot of negative issues in the news but sometimes we hear something that makes us smile. If you are looking for something more positive try this.

This is a fun and interesting video. I think the camel is so impressive. I really didn’t realize that they could be so well trained. I always thought they had a lot of attitude that limited their trainability.  So much for what I thought.

Here is another one of those cute Budweiser commercial.

Need a little laugh? This might do it for you.

The Flying Frenchman is a nice warm beach movie for all of us who are getting a rerun of winter.

I’m not sure why when I see videos like this that it makes me weepy. But I can’t help but admire someone who can get their horses to work like this. Especially when I am having trouble convincing mine that she would rather go riding than hang out with the herd.

The movie is at: http://canecorso.com/lorenzo.htm

Which brings me to another thought. Most horses in training are kept in fairly confined areas. Continue Reading »