The industry needs to step up for the welfare of the horse. We know better, so we need to do better. Thank you for bringing positive reinforcement into the Equine world. You are making the world a so much better place for the horse❣️

Thank you for supporting the horse and advocating for a better way.

I have been riding and training since I was 6. First horse at 10. Showed A levels and then fox hunting, giving lessons, running camps, working at racetrack farms and breeding farms - then at a dressage barn and an eventing barn - higher and higher I went and seemed like the universe was always putting me with the horses that had issues - the hot and fire-y ones that needed people to train with DIFFERENT philosophy - just taking time to communicate. I got to know classical dressage. My first degree was biology with a focus on neuro biology and then psychology and genetics - later I got two masters - and I also became a barefoot trimmer to help rehab the feet of horses that did not get to have those first 3-6 years to grow their feet to maturity naturally. I have been very successful rehabbing horses barefooting. At the time when I started this is was for a large OTTB rehab. I agree with so much of what you are sharing - we need to continue to do better. And these old trainers got to where they are using the old ways usually and because of their status within the horse world, we do not stand up to them - and when a video comes out - so many people rush in to defend them - but I think what needs to be said is - she is not the villain - but we need to evolve. There were several things said and done in the video that show the training utilizes force and fear. The whole discussion on the stick was when my heart dropped. And not because I decided to not like Katie that moment - I still respect her for her knowledge - but it reminded me how people train all over - how some people look at horses as beings to respect and some look at them as vehicles for the sport only. And I will express something after 40 years training, riding and running horse businesses - I have ran a few retirements for high end ex-show horses - special needs - and pretty much every ex-showjumper or ex-event horse - they often are crippled physically before mentally ready to go. I find out that because of their high level abilities and the maintenance options to keep them going - the owners pushed them as far as long as they could. And then at age 22-23, they are no longer getting that level of care and they are getting older. And I just am seeing that - maybe that job should have been stopped earlier in their lives? This is another topic to discuss. I do not see that with ex-dressage horses as much. We need to evolve and be humble and - it is ok if WE realize WE did something that now we realize was not the best choice. I remember as a kid when George Morris advocated that kids ride in a twisted wire snaffle. Do you remember that? And a tight martingale. George Morris wrote about 15 years ago I believe it was that he regrets that. Horse riding like we know it - IS NEW. Go look up horse jumping 100 years ago. Did ya find any women? Probably you found mostly men in uniform. Things have changed so much. My trainer as a kid trained under Katie BTW and I had a poster with her jumping on it on my wall. I was more of a Michael Matz kind of girl - but these were heroes of mine. I remember being at a Jan Ebeling clinic in the mid 90s and he sent a women out on a DWB that was 4. He said - bring him back after he has grown. And yet in 2014, I gave a lesson to a girl while a TOP LEVEL AQHA trainer was in the arena on a two year old with a heavy apparatus in the horse's mouth and the lesson was that if he moved a muscle, he would get his face jerked off. This same woman ignored the manager when he said no horses in the field with back shoes on and put her client's horse out with back shoes and within 2 days - a girl's mare had to be put down from being kicked in the shoulder by said shoes. This trainer just ran everyone over and no one said anything to her face because she tended to win at the worlds competitions. We do need to speak the truth - and not enable people - we need to not be afraid of the horse industry changing - we need to be horse advocates and trust that as we continue to advocate for the horse - the industry will continue to evolve into something better. Better for the horses. That's the most important thing.

Thank you for caring so much for the horses and the empathy you guys have for the traditional trainers in hopes that they find value in R+

@shawnakarrasch

5 ай бұрын

Awww, we appreciate you and your warm words. ❤

Shawna, thank you so much for your honesty and bravery in sharing your story which illustrated so well learned helplessness and how it can be formed and manifested. Hugs to you my dear, you are a very strong and courageous woman. What a wonderful path your painful background has helped you form. We are all better for it, but mostly our animals are better for it.

@shawnakarrasch

5 ай бұрын

Thank you…it really means a lot to me. Life can be hard and I feel like our hardships can turn into something better, if we can help someone, some how.❤

Thank you guys so much, looking forward to tomorrow's podcast. 💙💜❤

@shawnakarrasch

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for joining us. We appreciate you! 😊

@OTW-Ranch

5 ай бұрын

@@shawnakarrasch Back at ya sisters, you and Jessie are he best!