Author Archives: Kathryn Jane

Originally posted on Kristen Lamb's Blog:
Image courtesy of Eflon via Flickr Creative Commons The past few years have been just brutal. My grandmother who raised me was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and it was just one crisis after another and it just never…freaking…let…up. I felt like I was in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu being crushed…

Originally posted on Tango with Horses:
Horses are sensitive.  They are cognitive, meaning they are capable of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses (Oxford dictionary definition). They are sentient.  They are conscious.  (There is an interesting philosophical history of these terms on Wikipedia should you be interested. ) On July 7,…

Originally posted on A Matter of Balance:
People who come to my barn are probably befuddled by my posted sign:  “Please do not feed or touch the horses.”  While many of my clients are familiar with my request that my horses not be hand fed, for reasons I will get into here, no petting to…