In today’s podcast Kate goes solo (don’t worry Becky will be back next time!) with Annika O’Kane author of The Pretty Pony Once Said: A Heart-warming Rhyming tale about the Nature of Horses for Children - ideal Book for Kids who Love Animals!

Kate talks to Annika about her 40+ years in the industry and where her inspiration came from for her book. We also chat about the importance of this book in the movement toward educating children and young adults to understand horse behaviour. We go onto discuss how through this understanding children and young adults can stay safer.

As always, an enthusiastic conversation follows with a few tangents.

We finish up looking to the future and discuss some ideas Annika has for her next book! It was an absolute pleasure to have Annika on the podcast and we look forward to having her with us again!

You can find Annika’s book on Amazon, for those of you in the UK you can access it here - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pretty-Pony-once-said-Heart-warming/dp/1739183606

They are also stocked in Waterstones.

If you are based outside of the UK simply google search the book for your best delivery options.

 

Equine Behaviour Affiliation - https://equinebehaviouraffiliation.org/ 

 

More about Annika’s work - https://equinebehaviouraffiliation.org/find-a-behaviourist/annika-okane/

 

Body Horse Newsletter - https://www.bodhihorse.com/ 

 

In this episode Sarah and Becky continue the Agility Conversation and are joined by the fabulous Trudi Dempsey and Kate Blackmore.

Don't forget Little Green Stables are hosting an Agility half day clinic with Trudi in May. Please mge to book.

We talk Do's and Don'ts and so much more.

You can find us all on Social Media Platforms and Don't forget to follow our training on Pateron/Littlegreenstables

In today's podcast we are joined by the ever wonderful Trudi Demspey, Equine Behaviour and Training Consultant. We had decided to talk about planning, which we do at points throughout but there were a few tangents that we just had to discuss, staying motivated in our training, considering emotions during training, what to do if you are finding it difficult to get into your training sessions and so on. An open and honest conversation with lots of laughter. Enjoy!

Trick training is fun for you and your horse. It engages the equine brain & there are so many tricks to choose from. But what is a trick? To us it maybe teaching the Smile, Bow, Lying down or Fetch! But to the horse everything they learn from us could be seen as a trick. Because trick training in general is fun, it’s a good idea to inject this fun learning together in all the training. In this podcast we discuss our fave tricks and what really is a trick anyway? Follow Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partners and Little Green Stables

In today’s podcast we talk body targeting! Join us in our discussion on what parts of the body you can target. How body targeting can help with tacking up, mounting and for important medical procedures. Encountering possible sensitive areas, the benefits of exploration and the odd story from Becky, we also cover the importance of sheath cleanliness, so please be aware there is some willy talk. You can follow Kate: Equilogical Positive Equine Partners and Becky: Little Green Stables on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.

In today’s podcast we discuss tacking up. Weather you’re introducing the saddle or bridle for the first time or working with a horse that struggles with it, we have some tips for you. We look at the signals we see when a horse is finding tacking up stressful, talk about the possible reasons why this may be and discuss what steps you can take to start training the behaviour. Recorded on a sunny winters day with Becky’s herd, the famous Rum decides he wants to be involved and the rest of the herd follow. Expect our usual raw and unedited ramblings on our favourite subject- the horse!! You can follow Kate: Equilogical Positive Equine Partners on Facebook and Instagram and Becky: Little Green Stables.

In today’s podcast we discuss all things loading!! Loading and travelling can be a really stressful experience for both you and your horse. Today we talk about taking that stress away and how to have your very own ‘self-loader’ Simulating a dark confined area away from the trailer, creating positive associations with the environment and maintaining variety are just a few things we discussed along with Becky’s 5 top tips to ensure you and your equine are the happiest travellers! You can follow Kate: Equilogical Positive Partners and Becky from Little Green Stables on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.

In today’s podcast we discuss maintaining connection whilst out leading, what food to use in your training, keeping your horses head to himself to avoid mugging and tips to recognise and help the over threshold horse. You can find Kate on Facebook: equilogical positive equine partnerships and Becky on Facebook: Little Green Stables

Confidence, worries and future 🐎 A discussion on language and sayings that fuel our thoughts and more!!

We hope you have all had a Merry Christmas. After the release of our Christmas video we discuss the bloopers, the importance of not comparing yourself with others, our New Year plans and laugh at some funny equine language. You can follow Kate and Becky on Facebook: Equilogical Positive Equine Partners and Little Green Stables

What happens when your horse doesn’t follow the manual or the training plan...In this podcast we discuss frustrations when our horse isn’t understanding what we are asking. It can all look so slick and easy in the videos and books but what happens in reality when your training session doesn’t go as planned. Tips for troubleshooting problem areas, stimulus control and spontaneous recovery covered, you can always park it! An upbeat discussion on a rainy winters day. You can follow Kate on Facebook Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships and Becky at Little Green Stables

Enrichment bonus podcast we carry on discussing all things enrichment focussing on the implications of unenriched environments. How enrichment can help your training and that it has a marked effect on the well-being and performance of your horse. Contact Kate on Facebook Equine Equilogical Positive Partners and Becky at Little Green Stables.

We have teamed up with Conquest to support their Enrichment week. We had SO much to say on this awesome important subject that we have an extra bonus Enrichment part 2 podcast for Friday. In this weeks podcast we talk all about the importance of enrichment. Easy, affordable ideas and activities to keep your horse stimulated and happy. Ideas for horses on box rest or with restricted turnout and much much more...don’t forget to get in touch with us via Facebook: littlegreenstables or equilogical positive partnership. You can always check us out: littlegreenstables.com

If you haven't heard us talk about Gabriel before then where have you been? :-) He's a vet, IAABC certified (CHBC) and all round awesome person!

Gabriel was part of an undergraduate research study in to create an AI system that can be used by vets to recognise if pain in present in the horse; Pain assessment in horses using automatic facial expression recognition through deep learning-based modeling. You can find the study at https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0258672 

Gabriel tells us how they gathered information from stallions pre and post castration to build up the comparison profile for the system with brilliant results. There are many signs that horses show when in pain and this study looked at only facial expressions in order to be able to work on an AI system.  

We also talk about Gabriel's interest in equine behaviour as a vet and how the disconnect between neurology and physiology seems pretty crazy to some of us, his plans for his PhD, his new baby (horse that is :-)), horses in Brazil and much more!

We hope you enjoy this one as much as we did making it! You can follow Gabriel on Instagram at vet.gabriel.lencioni 

Today we talk about the science of learning and introducing reward based training to your horse. We also discuss touch acceptance and so much more.... Follow Kate and Becky on their learning and training journey with Rum and other animals. A podcast for people with an interest in positive reward based training focusing on the horse. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical-Positive Equine Partnerships and Little Green Stables. www.littlegreenstables.com

Equilogical podcast; follow Kate and Becky on their learning and training journey with horses, particularly Rum and other animals. A podcast for people with an interest in positive reward based training focusing on the horse. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical-Positive Equine Partnerships and Little Green Stables. www.littlegreenstables.com

This week we caught up with the awesome Shawna Karrasch and her partner in crime Jessie Hillegas! These guys are doing so much work to raise awareness over in America and have hit the road. You've probably seen a lot of posts on facebook from them as their mission is to raise awareness in the competitive world which is no easy feat!

Shawna and Jessie tell us about a really exciting project they have coming up with a big hotel (don't worry we'll be chatting to them again soon to find out how this went) and the many many other things they are doing to get out there and start really important conversations in a world where +R is either not commonly known or is misunderstood.

Of course we catch up with Henley and Santino and their super important work as flagship horses! We talk about training tools (including scooters and bells) and what lessons have been learnt along the way.

You can find out more at www.shawnakarrasch.com or join their Patreon warts and all! :-) at www.patreon.com/shawnakarraschequine 

You can find Kate & Becky on social media: Little Green Stables & Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships.  For our training & so much more: https://patreon/littlegreenstables 

This week Kate & Becky talk to Ella Bartlett from Bristol University about her recent study into horse training. Ella is currently studying for a PhD at the University of Bristol, where the aim of her project is to better understand how horse owners decide which approach to take when training their horses.  The hope is that this knowledge will mean we’re in a better position to promote the wider use of evidence-based training methods in the future.  You may have seen the study on social media, the study has now closed & Ella is collecting data with a fantastic response from all around the world. Ella discusses some of the findings & gives us a few teasers (the full data is still being collected). You can contact her for the details of the study: ella.bartlett@bristol.ac.uk & we are keen to have Ella as a guest on the podcast again. Alongside studying, Ella works as a part-time lecturer on an Animal Behaviour & Welfare degree delivered by Kingston University, teaching mainly welfare & research.  Outside of work/ studying Ella has four horses, including formally feral Welsh pony Bob, who’s slowly learning about life around humans. We talk about Bob & his curiosity & how we can help Ella progress with some ideas & some support from our fantastic team on our Patreon Site.  Ella is a valued Patreon member so will receive the benefits of having feedback from both Kate & Trudi during our Dempsey Sessions as well as learning from all our training content.   If you are enjoying our podcast, please share, like & subscribe. You can find Kate & Becky on most Social Media outlets: Little Green Stables & Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships. For all our training content, join us on Patreon/LittleGreenStables  Coming up: The Queen of Clicker: Shawna,  will be joining us for our next Podcast.

In this week's podcast Becky & Kate are joined by the wonderful Emma Bettridge & we discuss her recent book: Goodbye Hobbs. Emma talks about the inspiration for her book & how writing it & being around animals has helped support her through coping with grief. A book aimed for children to help them through the journey of loss but Kate & Becky feel this book is for everyone, we all need a copy of Goodbye Hobbs!! It's a beautiful read, simple & needed with wonderful illustrations. 

We chat lots, about growing up around animals, learning from animals & some of you may find our rambles rather emotional but we hope that we also offer support & honesty as we discuss how important observing & just breathing our animals in can help us.

Emma lives in Somerset with her 2 beautiful dogs & has horses too. A Theatre Producer & Arts Consultant by trade, Emma has more books on the way!! 

You can buy your copy of Goodbye Hobbs from Bookshops & Online.

If you are enjoying our podcast, please like, download & share. You can find Kate & Becky on social media: Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships & Little Green Stables. 

For all our training videos & so much more, join us on Patreon/Little Green Stables  

Launching into 2023 with Positive Vibes... Kate is very excited about the response to the recent Equischolars competition with some awesome winners: Congratulations Field Of Joy in Norfolk & Holly Ingham from North Dakota, receiving the fantastic Equischolar Curriculum. Kate has also been working with The Ranch in Weymouth & looking at all the fantastic activities they are providing.  We have been super impressed by the young up & coming Equine ambassadors. Both Willow & Ella are busy at different University's working on surveys that can help gather information about how we train & how we look at pain & act on it with our horses. Please take 10 mins to complete their surveys & to support their amazing work & studies, here are the links:  https://uchartpury.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/to-identify-horse-owners-perceptions-of-equine-pain-behav htts://svs.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/horse-training-questionnaire Another shout out to Molly from AIM Horsemanship who is also helping our Equines through her awesome training, you can find her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=aim%20horsemanship Becky announces some  fantastic guests lined up: the awesome Emma Bettridge, horsey owner & author of the fantastic children's book: Goodbye Hobbs will be joining us, we also have Gabriel Lencioni who is a Behaviour Vet from Brazil & the one & only Queen of Clicker Training: Shawna... So much good stuff coming your way!!!  Don't forget, if you are a Patreon we will always put your questions first & are happy to discuss topics that you choose on our podcast. Over on Patreon we also have the fantastic Dempsey Sessions every other month with our First Class Trainer: Trudi Dempsey: www.equine.training  You can find Kate & Becky on social media: Little Green Stables and Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships.  For our training & so much more: https://www.patreon.com/LittleGreenStables   

A HUGE THANK YOU 🙏 to our podcast listeners & our Patreons for all your support this year! A short one from us & a quick round up 😁 We are looking forward to hearing from you in 2023 🥳 Soooo have a Wonderful Christmas 🎄 with your animal family & friends 🐴🐎🐕🐈🦜If you are enjoying our podcast please 🙏 share, like 👍🏻 & subscribe 🙏You can find Kate & Becky on Social Media: Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships & Little Green Stables 🙂For our training content & so much more join us on Patreon/littlegreenstables 🙏

A different take on todays podcast! After publishing the "decide to dismount" short video on her fb page, Becky received a huge amount of comments both positive and negative. We decided that it was important to answer some of the many questions that arose and address some of the more negative comments. It can be so easy to comment on people's videos but are we being helpful? Are there better ways to express our feelings online? Trudi clarifies the fundamentals of the training; Did we use reinforcers? Is it actually negative reinforcement on the mat? How was the mat trained? Is the rate or reinforcement too low? A lot of commenters believe that, if given the choice, their horse would choose not to do the work. The three of us talk about this a little more in depth, is that actually the case? Was it the case for Reg? Is there a compromise when we have to exercise our horses for weight management? Lots and lots of great discussion, you don't want to miss out on this one! If you are enjoying our podcast please share, like 👍🏻 and subscribe. You can find Kate, Becky and Trudi on social media. For our training content and so much more, join us on Patreon/littlegreenstables

In this weeks podcast we discuss kids around animals! Are kids really safe? Is PPE enough? What's missing in the current mainstream equine education and ways in which we can better promote safety around horses for everyone!

We touch on other species and the work being some to protect both animal and human and how in being animal owners we have a duty to represent them in a fair and unbiased way.

If you are enjoying our podcast please subscribe, like & share You can find Kate & Becky on social media: Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships & Little Green Stables

For our training content & so much more, join us on Patreon/littlegreenstables

In this weeks episode we chat to Irene Perrett MA, Cert Ed., BHS IV SM from Drayford Equine Learning and Fun or DELF for short. Irene tells us about her latest distinction grade MA at Exeter University on 

We discuss the human animal relationships around the world and how different cultures view and how animals fit into their society. Animals have different jobs all over the world and when it comes to equines there are some stark contrasts in how we view this in the Western world and how having a more holistic view which looks into the balance of all things living including nature could mark big steps into the emotions and welfare of the animals in our lives. We go on to talk about the importance of focussing on the relationship we have with individual animals rather than the goals is key into creating trust. 

We were joined by a group of ducks who had a lot to say on that matter so you may want to join in on that chorus! :-)

If you are enjoying our podcast please subscribe, like & share You can find Kate & Becky on social media: Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships & Little Green Stables

For our training content & so much more, join us on Patreon/littlegreenstables 

Welcome back! It's been a while :)

In this episode Becky chats to the fabulous Sarah Johnson one of Little Green Stables valued Patreons about horse agility. Sarah lives in Switzerland with Kenda her horse who is of a similar age to Becky's Rum.

Becky has just started training agility with Rum and all this training and more can be found over on the Patreon site. Sarah and Becky discuss the obstacles, how beneficial they can be for both humans and horses and how agility training can really suit R+ and clicker trainers.

This is just Part 1 and Sarah and Becky wanted it to be an informal chat from lay trainers about how they find adding in Agility for their equines.

For Part 2 Becky and Sarah are joined by Kate Blackmore from Equilogical and Equischolars and Trudi Dempsey: Equine Trainer and Behaviour Consultant to help break down the obstacles, chain them, train them, adding stimulus and all the details that we know we need them for.

Hope you enjoy and please don't forget to share, like and subscribe.

In this week’s podcast we chat about our meltdowns & how trigger stacking happens to us all not just our horses 🐴 Can you relate? 😬 We also discuss the exciting content on our Patreon Site & the very intriguing who decides to dismount question 🤨🐎If you are enjoying our podcast please 🙏 subscribe, like 👍🏻 & share 💕You can find Kate & Becky on social media: Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships & Little Green Stables 🙏For our training content & so much more, join us on Patreon/littlegreenstables 💕🐎💕

In this episode we cover the practicals & more 🐎 we talk tack, vettings, food 🌱 & everything you need to consider 😉 if you are enjoying our podcast please 🙏 like 👍🏻 share & subscribe. You can find us on social media: Little Green Stables & Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships. For all our training content & more: Patreon/littlegreenstables 🙏🐎🙏

In this weeks podcast we discuss motivation, the importance of food reward & expectations. We chat about Trudi’s latest podcast & how Becky has learnt from that (Lead A Horse to Water). Training, scent-work & how important it is evaluate & gather information from our sessions. We also chat about collaborating with other therapists, behaviourists & professionals & how it can be Fab to collab but sometimes frustrating & isolating….. we should all be working together, sharing & learning from each other for the well-being of the animals. Don’t forget to join us on Patreon/Littlegreenstables & you can find us on social media: Little Green Stables & Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships. Please Like 👍🏻 subscribe 🙏& share 💕🐴💕

Apologies for our bad language from the start 😌 We talk lots, it’s been a while so a few rants & tangents 🤪 We discuss “No” & what that means - can we handle it when our horses say no? & what do we mean by the hierarchy of No?🤨 how the environment has a huge part to play & this includes the weather 💨Also our feelings & how we need to support & handle them when things don’t go as planned 🐴if you are enjoying our podcast please 🙏 Like, subscribe & share 🙏you can find Kate & Becky on social media: Equilogical Positive Equine Partners & Little Green Stables 💕🐴💕For all our training & so much more join us on Patreon/littlegreenstables

Joined in person with the fabulous Maisie Wake for this podcast. We talk Salt 🧂 therapy and all it’s fantastic benefits including sweetitch 😒. We discuss moving 🚛🐎our horses and the other animals in our care 🐈‍⬛🐈🐓🐓🦎🦎. How planning for them will help set them up for success but how sometimes we don’t take into consideration enough the smaller animals. It’s great to be back but we won’t be publishing next week due to Kate’s move 🤞🏻but you can find us and follow us on: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Tiktok: Equilogical Positive Equine Partners and Little Green Stables. For all our training content and so much more 😃join us on Patreon/littlegreenstables

Just a short podcast from Becky and Kate this week to let you know that we are still here and missing you all! :-)  Illness and house moves have had us on the back hand these last two weeks and last week was the very first time we couldn't bring out a podcast! We couldn't leave you all for another week so we popped on and had a quick catch up about our weeks. We can't wait to get back to you all properly soon! You can follow Kate and Becky on: Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical positive Equine partnership and Little Green Stables. For all our Training Videos and so much more:Patreon/littlegreenstables

Have you felt the chill? In the UK 🇬🇧 we have seen a change in the weather very quickly. Can you prepare for Winter? Our Winters are so different & planning from one year to the next means we need to be ready for change & for every weather situation. Looking after our horses & ourselves is so important & we chat about some tips that may help with day to day life. Some training tips for the Winter. How important it is to treat your horse as an individual during the season change. We chat lots about Winter help & support & mention that we have our Dempsey Sessions coming up on Patreon on Wednesday 12th October which we are very much looking forward tooooo & we look forward to seeing you there. So get your Winter enrichment on 🥰😉 embrace the weather change with lots of training options & look after yourself & your horses 🐴. We also add in some poo 💩 talk that we need your help with 🙈🤷‍♀️You can find Kate & Becky on: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube & TikTok: Little Green Stables & Equilogical Positive Equine Partners. For all our training videos & SO MUCH MORE 😀join us on Patreon/littlegreenstables

This week Becky tells Kate about her week trying out scentwork with Rum and Reggie with very different experiences.  Becky also tells us about her salt therapy sessions with Maisie and how her horses have been with it. Rum suffers from some minor respiratory issues and Reggie has really bad sweet itch which salt therapy can help with. Kate gives an update on baby donk and gets excited about search and rescue! Don’t forget to join us on Patreon (we mention it a lot in this episode) and you can follow us on: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok: Little Green Stables and Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships

Welcome back! So excited to be back after our Summer break. This week’s podcast comes to you from Oxford where we have been attending a clinic with Rachael Draaisma & many other awesome people. Racheal has written two books, one about Equine calming signals & the other about Equine Scent Work. Lots of theory & observations. Becky & Kate delve into the world of calming signals. How to identify & use this knowledge with our day to day work & training. We also have our usual tangents & announce some exciting Patreon news. You can follow Kate & Becky on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube & Tiktok: Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships & Little Green Stables. For all our training content & more, find us on Patreon/littlegreenstables

This week we circle back to one of our very earliest of podcasts on enrichment to look at how effective enrichment is for the stabled horse, what aspects of enrichment seem to be the most effective and how we can apply these findings to our management of horses. In this episode we are joined by the brilliant Louise Napthine from Why Do Horses? Louise shares a study on housing horses in individual boxes and the challenges towards welfare. The study can be found at https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/9/9/621#:~:text=This%20housing%20system%20is%20reported,%2C%20and%20stress%2Drelated%20behaviours  She discusses some of her thoughts on the study and the effects of enrichment on stereotypies and we all discuss how powerless we can feel when our horses are put on box rest, luckily Louise has a solution to help owners feel like they have some influence over the situation. Louise is a massive fan of enrichment and she writes articles on the subject as well as running her Happy Horses Workshop where she visits yards and creates bespoke enrichment plans for people and their horses - to find out more visit her website www.whydohorses.com  If you are enjoying our podcast please Like, Share and Subscribe. You can follow us on all the usual social media platforms: Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships and Little Green Stables. For all our training videos and SO Much More: Patreon/littlegreenstables

We had so much to say about Sweetitch that we needed a part 2! We chat with the awesome Maisie and Vicki about how they manage their horses Skylark and Stevie with Sweetitich.

We agreed that we all support our horses slightly differently within different environments. There doesn't seem to be one way, being supportive of each other and giving each other ideas, helps.

Kate and Becky will be back monthly with podcasts but you can catch up with us in between on Social Media: Little Green Stables and Equilogical. You can find all our training content on: Patreon/littlegreenstables

What a colab! Joined by the fabulous Trudi Dempsey and the wonderful Sarah Johnson for this weeks podcast. Sarah is on holiday from Switzerland 🇨🇭 and spent the morning training Rum and Reggie with Trudi. We talk about the importance of training different horses, working with different trainers and all the challenges we face along with the celebrations. The discussion explores how we build resilience in our horses how easy it is to make mistakes but not to dwell on those but to be honest, own them and train them out. A very open discussion about horse personalities, the benefit of hindsight and how we owe it to the horse to help them cope with any future handling that may come their way…. And so much more!! If you are enjoying our podcast please like, subscribe and share. You can follow Becky, Kate and Trudi on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Tiktok: Equilogical positive equine partnerships, Little Green Stables and Trudi Dempsey Equine Training and Behaviour. Sarah has her own training content on Instagram: shedreamsequine. Over on Patreon/littlegreenstables you will be able to access all our training content and so much more!!

Wow we have reached our 80th episode!!  Thank you SO much to all our fabulous listeners and followers, we really appreciate you and hope that we have brought some laughs but also some helpful information for you and your Equines.  In this episode Kate has a grumpy rant. We do try to always be upbeat, positive and bubbly but sometimes changing the world can be hard.  Kate feels she is on a never ending upwards struggle but Becky helps to remind her that we all face similar difficulties and are all trying to do our best with whatever situation we are in.  The Equine world is steeped in tradition and Kate is a trail blazer, it's only natural and sadly inevitable that she will face some troughs, but lets try and focus on the peaks. We have you as listeners and questions about management, environment, nutrition, behaviour and training methods in the Equine community are being asked. Change takes time and some people are more ready than others. Thank you for being part of that change.  If you are enjoying our podcasts, please feel free to share, like and subscribe. You can follow Kate and Becky on: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Tiktok: Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships and Little Green Stables Don't forget to join us on Patreon/littlegreenstables for all our training, learning, anatomy, herbal, behaviour, enrichment and more content!! 

Kate loves a study! In this week’s episode we chat about The Great Escape (eek), Becky’s challenge and if Pet -directed speech improves horses’ attention toward humans? A very interesting study and one that has both Kate and Becky standing corrected. So do you talk Baby to your horse? Or PDS (pet directed speech) as we should be calling it. We would love to hear from you, so please comment and if you are enjoying our podcast, please like, subscribe and share. You can find Kate and Becky on: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships and Little Green Stables. Don’t forget to join us on Patreon/littlegreenstables for all our training content and so much more!!

Becky's back!! We recap the last few weeks & Kate updates us about her Cat Sage and his antics. We also talk about the recent training weekend and how well everyone did. Then we chat about the un-ridden and/or retired horse. 

As an Animal Physio and body-worker, Becky works with horses from all different training backgrounds and finds it hard that horses can be seen as "useless" when they aren't fulfilling the need of the human. 

We should as caregivers (owners) be looking at our horses in a different way, providing a life after "our fun/turn" because no horse is useless and there is so much we can learn from the horse as a horse. 

Wouldn't it be great if we had a life plan for the horses in our care? We know we have to be realistic, not everyone can afford to keep every horse and sometimes tough decisions have to be made. But let's start talking about this topic, exploring and evolving our thoughts and ideas and keeping horses welfare in the forefront. 

Kate sets a challenge for Becky, this will be recorded for our Patreons along with all our great training content and so much more!! 

If you are enjoying our podcast, thank you so much for listening, we would love for you to like, subscribe and share. You can follow Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Tiktok: Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships and Little Green Stables. 

For all our training content and more, join us on: Patreon/Littlegreenstables 

Kate and Sarah continue their discussions and thoughts about Kenda, her move, the journey so far and the training. We hope you enjoy part 2! Some exciting news is that Sarah will be coming to the UK in a few weeks for a holiday and during that time she will visit The Conquest Centre, where it all began for Kate. Then Sarah will be joining Becky and Trudi for a session with Rum and Reggie and we may have time to record another podcast together - fingers crossed. If you are enjoying our content, please share, like, download and subscribe. You can find Kate and Becky on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Tiktok: Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships and Little Green Stables. 

If you are keen to enhance your training, develop your skills and look at ways to enrich the environment for your horse, then you may want to join our members club on Patreon/littlegreenstables 

Thank you for listening :) 

In this weeks episode Kate goes solo with the lovely Sarah Johnson in Switzerland whilst Becky is on top of a mountain! Kate and Sarah chat about how being the only R+ trainer in the area can be testing and sometimes makes us feel like giving up. But there is hope, with a growing online community help is all around. Sarah’s lovely mare Kenda has been dealing with separation anxiety and they talk about how the training has been going. Sarah also has some wise words for you all. A podcast that many of you may resonate with! If you are enjoying our podcasts, please, like and subscribe. You can follow Kate and Becky on: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Tictok: Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships and Little Green Stables. To join our growing community full of training and more: Patreon/Little Green Stables

We have arrived in Switzerland, it’s amazing. Working with one of our fantastic Patreons and her gorgeous horse. Herd dynamics, cultural differences and how hard it is to leave home to make that journey but what a journey. We have the perfect hosts, perfect scenery and fantastic horses to engage, observe, learn and train with. If you are enjoying out podcast, please like, subscribe and download. You can follow Kate and Becky on instagram, Facebook, YouTube and TikTok: Equilogical Positive Equine Partnership and Little Green Stables. Join us over on Patreon for all our awesome content and more!!! 😀

In this episode we get technical (mmm, not really). We look at behaviour jargon & what it means....do we need to use it? Possibly not, but it’s helpful to understand it. If you are enjoying our podcast, please share, like & subscribe. You can follow Kate & Becky on Facebook, Instagram & Tictok: Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships & Little Green Stables. Don’t forget to join us over on Patreon for all our learning content: Patreon/Little Green Stables

This episode went rogue. Apologies for those of you that listened to it at the end of our Grief episode - that wasn't the plan. However feedback tells us that it helped cheer some of you up after listening to the very important but rather sombre episode where we discussed grief in the herd. In this episode we answer a question from one of our valued Patreons and Podcast listeners, all about are helpers - helpful? How having help can be challenging and how it can undermine our training at times but also offer value, help and that important third eye. We chat about our default behaviours as trainers and recognise that we are always the learner too. We try not to be to hard on ourselves when those default behaviours come in and to remember that we can reset, rethink, breathe and move on. It's important to be honest about the times when we struggle, the times when we need some outside help and the times when we don't. We also discuss the importance of testing your training and that this should become the norm but again it's easy not to and to "just know" your learner knows the behaviour and you have trained it perfectly - remember the learner is always right!! Going back and re-checking the basics is vitally important, the saying if you don't use it you lose it is a there for a reason.  If you are enjoying our podcasts, please like, subscribe and share. You can find Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships and Little Green Stables.  If you didn't know, we also have our own Pateron site where you can access all our training, learning, forage, anatomy, healthcare and SO MUCH MORE, we would love to have you join us:  www.patreon.com/LittleGreenStables

In this podcast episode we go feral, yep feral......do you know your feral equines? Turns out there is lots to learn. Becky is home alone {without her moderator Mr B, so she goes feral too). We chat exciting times, training & new adventures. If you are enjoying our podcast please share, like and subscribe. You can follow Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube & Tictok. Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships and Little Green Stables. To access our fabulous content more deeply and for the holistic, whole horse approach, join us on Patreon/littlegreenstables

Well Kate and Becky are back! We won't be weekly but we are back and on this podcast we are joined by the fantastic Maisie Wake and Vicki Honer talking all things Sweetitch.

Both Maisie and Vicki have horses that suffer so we chat about how we manage our horses through the months where Sweetitch is so very tricky.

We covered lots but ran out of time, so keep a listen out for part 2!

It's great to be back.

Don't forget you can find us on social media: Little Green Stables and Equischolors.

All our training content and so much more is over on our Patreon channel for just £10 per month: Patreon/littlegreenstables

In today's podcast we discuss the 2024 Paris Olympics and equine welfare. The French government has recently put forward 46 recommendations to make the Paris Olympics be one that prioritises welfare.  Kate runs through the key highlights of the proposal which eventually leads into a conversation about changing the world of course!  Becky explains her first podcast mishap last week and clears up all the confusion. :-) if you are enjoying our podcast please like, share and subscribe. You can follow Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships and Little Green Stables. Don’t forget to join us in our members area on Patreon/littlegreenstables where you will find all our training videos as well as health, hoof and medical care, enrichment and forage and so much more!!!

In this podcast we discuss grief in the herd. Please be aware that we talk about different methods of euthanasia, the ethics of training for euthanasia and our observations of the herds that we live and work with that have witnessed a loss of a herd member.  Some listeners may struggle with some content, so please listen in a safe space and when you are ready.  We are hoping that this podcast is helpful in some way to our listeners. Preparation is great and important if we have the opportunity but sometimes things happen quickly and/or out of our control, this podcast may offer some help, assistance and guidance with tips on how to support the remaining herd members, remember wherever there is attachment there is loss, this will include you too, so take things easy and be kind to yourself and your animal family.  Every individual owns their own thoughts and feelings, healing doesn't happen in a straight line and will be different for everyone, supporting each other and the animals that we interact with can help us and them heal.  If you have a professional individual that you trust to help be with you when the time has come and is in an area that we haven't mentioned, please post in the comments, this could be a great help to someone else.    

In this episode we are joined by the fabulous Maisie Wake and Mickey as we talk all things Mini. From environment to showing, veterinary and husbandry care to how so many Minis can be misunderstood and mistreated. A podcast recorded in the sunshine at Mickeys home where she has designed an enriched world for her 7/8 Miniature Shetlands, it’s pure Mini magic. We also talk about the fantastic work that Munchkins Miniature Shetland Rescue do for the breed and the dedication that Mickey and Maisie give to the charity. If you are enjoying our podcasts, please share, like and subscribe. You can follow Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships and Little Green Stables. Don’t forget to join us on Patreon/Little Green Stables for all our training content and so much more!!!