Louise Stobbs
How do I improve my horse's topline?
The golden question on all forums and horsey Facebook groups. The advice ranges from feeding topline cubes, to lunging in various...
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Louise Stobbs
- Aug 25
- 2 min
Introducing new things
Lovely 2yo Splash wore a rug for the first time today. This guy has been on quite a journey, from a very fearful, uncatchable little...
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Louise Stobbs
- Aug 25
- 4 min
Just because a horse lets you sit on his back it doesn't mean he's ready to be ridden
There’s a misconception that horses are designed to be ridden. We think as long as they’re not lame or sick then they’re capable of...
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Louise Stobbs
- Aug 25
- 3 min
Thoughts around groundwork training
I talk a lot about groundwork, but the term means different things to different people. The groundwork I do now looks a lot less exciting...
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Louise Stobbs
- Aug 25
- 3 min
Just because we can doesn't mean we should
A common theme with the horses I go out to see is that they have been given the “all clear” by vets/bodyworkers/various other...
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Louise Stobbs
- Aug 25
- 3 min
How do you deal with a horse that bites?
I saw this question come up on a popular horse forum and most replies were describing different ways to punish the horse and how it is a...
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Louise Stobbs
- Aug 25
- 4 min
The call is coming from inside the house
I’ve had a lot of conversations with my friends over the last week, not about “the video” as such because we didn’t find it particularly...
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Louise Stobbs
- Aug 25
- 3 min
How do you make your horse feel?
There are so many actions we perceive as kindness as our intentions are good, but our intentions really don’t matter if the horse isn’t...
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Louise Stobbs
- Aug 25
- 3 min
Positive reinforcement training
You might see these terms a lot more recently, R+, reward-based training, clicker training etc, but I think there is a lot of confusion...
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Louise Stobbs
- Aug 25
- 2 min
Trigger stacking
Trigger stacking is the build of multiple stressors that cause a horse to go over their stress threshold and react. While the horse might...
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Louise Stobbs
- Aug 25
- 3 min
Behavioural knowledge should come first
How to read basic equine behaviour should be the first thing anyone learns about horses, not just something that you talk about once you...
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Louise Stobbs
- Aug 25
- 3 min
Spooky horses
Spooking is a completely natural equine behaviour, their survival depended on being quick to flee from danger. What we may perceive as...
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Louise Stobbs
- Aug 25
- 4 min
The issue with trying too hard
When we really care about our horses we can feel desperate to get things right as we really want to help them. It can feel like if we...
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Louise Stobbs
- Aug 25
- 3 min
Confidence around horses
Being nervous around horses and riding is very common, they are large animals that can potentially hurt us. The trap we fall into is...
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Louise Stobbs
- Aug 25
- 3 min
Horses owe us nothing
My friend recently sent me an article that was basically just belittling nervous riders, but a running theme within the article was the...
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Louise Stobbs
- Aug 25
- 3 min
Making the right thing easy
There is a common phrase in horse training circles of “make the wrong thing hard and the right thing easy”. I’m not 100% sure who coined...
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Louise Stobbs
- Aug 25
- 3 min
Mounting block issues
Most horses know exactly what is expected of them at the mounting block and if they’re choosing to move away we should think about why...
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Louise Stobbs
- Aug 25
- 3 min
Handling legs and hooves
There are two main reasons that horses do not like their legs being handled, not feeling safe and pain/anticipated pain. Horses have...
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Louise Stobbs
- Aug 25
- 4 min
What are you really training?
There is a running theme in my writing of trying to help people see that a lot of training completely disregards the horse’s feelings and...
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Louise Stobbs
- Aug 25
- 3 min
Client Story
This is Heather and her lovely rising 2yo cob Splash. Unfortunately, Splash’s first experiences with humans have been quite traumatic,...
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