Equilogical Podcast (Rebeccah Baylis)

In today’s podcast we discuss the importance of rewards, random rewards, when to jackpot and how as humans we can create patterns in our training without realising, the animals are more advanced than us and pick up on these patterns before we even notice we are making them. Varied schedules, fixed schedules and of course some stories along the way. If you are enjoying our podcasts, please like, subscribe and share. You can find Kate and Becky on: Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Partners and Little Green Stables.

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/ 

 

Wow! 2 days spent on the Yorkshire Dales, riding & learning about Dales with the fabulous Jenny Major 💜🐎🐎💜Becky & Jenn chat about their weekend adventure & all about Jenn’s amazing horsey work 🙌 If you are enjoying our podcast please like, subscribe and share 🙏You can find Kate & Becky on social media: Little Green Stables & Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships 🐎🙏🐎For all our training content go to: Patreon/littlegreenstables

A chat with the fabulous Maisie Wake. We look at the importance of recall. How this behaviour is often not taught with our horses but it is so valuable. We discuss herd recall, individual recall and emergency recall. We chat chickens, cats, parrots, dogs, geckos and individual personalities and how we can adapt our training to support different species and personalities. How setting up the environment for success and the importance of learning from your learner regarding motivation/motivator, repetition/drilling, time of day, type of audience is so important and of course so much more! Never enough time when we chat with Maisie.  If you are enjoying our podcast please share, like and subscribe. You can follow Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. For all our training videos and so much more join us on Patreon/Little Green Stables.

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

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 this podcast we talk about the benefits of targeting with a moving target or a stationary one. We have touched on targets many times before and how they can help with our training, aid focus in tricky situations and be useful when we are having to do veterinary procedures. But the target can be used badly and cause frustration, and when is the right time to fade the target...? If you are enjoying our podcast please share, like and subscribe. You can follow Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships and Little Green Stables. We also have a Members club on Patreon/Little Green Stables

Today we are joined by Immy, (a student of EquiScholars) and Claire, Thrive Practitioner and Immy's mentor from the Conquest Centre.

15 year old Immy is one of the original Equischolars and tell us about how she got into horses, how she learnt and then dealt with relearning! As an avid rider, a knowledge in equine behaviour has changed the way in which she looks at common behaviours and now asks what is happening, rather than an interpretation of the situation.

Claire give us some great insight into the importance of connecting with our learners (both horse and human) and how this is the first step in being able to do vital equine therapy work.

We thoroughly enjoyed chatting and feeling all the positive vibes for our future stewards of the horse!

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 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  

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

Wow, a long episode that I thought about trimming but just thought you all would love the full flow. Our interview with the fabulous Maisie Wake: Behaviour Consultant and Massage therapist. Maisie talks about her emotional journey with her beautiful horse Skylark, all the health issues they have overcome and the progress they are making. Her work with Vets, overcoming mistakes, poison cues, Gecko time and so much more!! We have so much more to quiz Maisie about so she will be back in a couple of months to chat about resource guarding and her work with the Miniature Munchkins Charity. We will also be posting Maisie’s Vet force free procedure video with Skylark, so watch out for that lovely bit of permission based training. You can follow Maisie on Facebook and Instagram and check out her website: maisiewake.com You can follow Kate and I on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partners and Little Green Stables.

Flashback episode: A few episodes ago, we chatted with the fabulous Kate Thornton from IEP. We mentioned that way back in 2020 we had recorded a podcast about adversity in the Equine community but we didn't publish the episode, because Kate (Blackmore) was unsure at the time... Well here, 2 years later, is the episode for you to enjoy. 

In this episode we talk about coping with adversity in the Equine community, with tips and advice to help you and your horse. Don't forget to Shake it Off! 

If you are enjoying our podcast, please like, share 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 check out our training videos, anatomy and herbal/forage posts and so much more on: www.patreon.com/LittleGreenStables

It’s a long episode folks, we tried to focus on 5 do’s and 5 don’ts but due to so much excitement you will get much more content! Stories, tips and future plans. Shawna was so giving with her time and continued in recording a special Q&A for our Patreon members. Thanks to all of you who have supported our podcast, if you are enjoying our content please feel free to share, like and subscribe. You can find Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partners and Little Green Stables. If you would like to become a member in Patreon, check out: patreon.com/littlegreenstables don’t forget to check out Shawna and her podcast: Equine Clicker 101, you can also find Shawna on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Shawna Karrasch and check out Via Nova training for more tips, help, videos and advice.

How are you with your timing? What are the benefits of clicking too early, too late & more! In this podcast we discuss & delve deep into the process of the click, what it means, what is important after the click. Stories & discussion about working with different species & how the individual learner is so important in our training & learning together. If you are enjoying our podcast please share, like and subscribe. You can follow Kate & Becky on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook: Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships & Little Green Stables. Don’t forget to join us on Patreon/Little Green Stables for training content & so much more.

In this episode we discuss the training groups that we are involved with at the moment and how good they are at focusing specific behaviour. Becky shares a top tip from Trudi that she has practiced with Rum, identifying if Rum recognises the click as the marker…and can Rum wait for the food to come to him. We touch on shaping plans and what an important aspect of our training they are. If you are enjoying our podcasts, please subscribe, like and share. You can follow Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships and Little Green Stables. We would love to see you join our members over on Patreon for tons of information and training videos: Patreon/littlegreenstables

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 

We are back! Season 4 kicks off with Becky standing corrected and giving a shout out to Science. We discuss Shaping plans and training with them, why they are useful and why is it that some of us find them tricky. A very quick book review of the fantastic read “Canine Enrichment for the real world” by Allie Bender and Emily Strong, so much in the book could be related to our horses. Don’t forget to join us over on Patreon for loads more content: patreon.com/LittleGreenStables you can follow Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partners and Little Green Stables. Don’t forget to like and subscribe.

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

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.

In today’s podcast we discuss our training sessions with Rum, working with other trainers and taking tips and learning from each other. Looking at setting up training sessions, how long they should be and when to walk away. We chat about latent learning and the processing of information....filling the slots and enabling the horse to consolidate the training and this leads us to the thought of a Steiner School for Horses, how wonderful would that be! We hope you enjoy our ramblings today. If you are enjoying our podcast please share, like and subscribe. You can follow Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partners and Little Green Stables. Don’t forget to join our members club over on Patreon: Little Green Stables

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

This week we look at stereotypies and repetitive behaviour in our horses. Kate discusses some study findings and we talk about the emotions and human opinions that having a horse with a repetitive behaviour can make people feel. How we can help best support our horses with these behaviours and much more. If you are enjoying our podcast 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 for all our training videos on Patreon/Little Green Stables

In this episode we explore the importance of sleep for our horses. This is a topic Kate has been keen to cover for some time, and she has been spurred on by a recent webinar hosted by EBTA on Equine Sleep Deprivation with Dr Joe Bertone. Kate and Becky booked tickets for the webinar but had to play catch-up due to family stuff. We cover a lot of ground in this episode and record it in the evening with wine so you can hear Becky get increasingly fuzzy with her thoughts. If you are enjoying our podcast please share, like and subscribe. You can find both Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partners and Little Green Stables. Don’t forget to join us over on Patreon: Little Green Stables for all our training, anatomy and behaviour videos.

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

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 💕🐴💕

Wow! What an interview with the fascinating Greg Glendell (Parrot behavioural consultant) and the fabulous Maisie Wake. Greg has trained his horse Harry using positive reward based training and they now enjoy exploring the countryside together on long camping adventures. Greg has some strong opinions that we discuss and a true passion for animal welfare. Both Greg and Maisie observed a training session with Rum, NIK and myself and it was great to have their insight and feedback: the videos can be found on our Patreon page: Little Green Stables. If you are enjoying our podcast please share, like and subscribe. You can find Kate and Becky on: Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partners and Little Green Stables. Don’t forget to check out Patreon for all the extra content.

SEAM stands for: spontaneous erection and masturbation and it’s the topic of today’s podcast. Are horses that are trained using positive reinforcement more likely to SEAM? Is it because of frustration, relaxation, anxiety, contentment or boredom? We love it when questions lead to more questions...The fabulous Maisie Wake shared some research (see the link below) an we are interested in this as Rum does “drop” during training quite a lot, but what does it really mean? Do Mares get aroused with the training and what are the signs....? More questions? As usual we add some silliness and immaturity but it is an interesting topic and more studies are being done and looking for input, so get in touch with them if you and your horse would like to be involved: https://horseport.com/magazine/behaviour/rising-occasion-why-gelding-dropping/amp/? If you are enjoying our podcast please share and get in touch, you can find Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partners and Little Green Stables. Don’t forget to check us out on 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 discuss the Mounting block and how important it is get this behaviour right. (Apologies for some swearing)How we went wrong, stepped back, took a break and then corrected. How to train in many ways and triggers to look at. We also talk about our Patreon Members Launch, how we would all love you to join us and share in a journey together, if you are interested in our Members Club then please email: rebeccah.baylis@gmail.com If you are enjoying our content, please feel free to share, like and subscribe. You can follow Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partners and Little Green Stables.

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 🙏🐎🙏

Over the last few weeks, we have met several people just starting or getting interested in clicker training with their horses. It can be daunting leaving the world we thought we knew behind, changing how we train, process and getting to grips with learning something new to us, then how do we translate that to our animals? A chilled energy vibe today as we recorded in the sunshine with the ponies snoozing alongside us. If you are enjoying our podcast please share, like and subscribe. You can follow Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partners and Little Green Stables. For even more content, extras and info check out our members area on Patreon: Little Green Stables

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!!!

In this episode we are missing Kate, but don’t worry, she’s fine and we have the lovely Niknik joining in. We chat about the horses NIK works with at the Conquest Centre, what behaviours she likes to train & how working with so say sour horses using positive reinforcement techniques changes the sourness into eager horses opting in to work and train. You can follow Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partners and Little Green Stables.

Kate discusses her recent foraging and making sessions and how foraging helps her feel relaxed, we look at the reasons why. Coming to the end of Summer in the UK we don’t go into much detail about Summer herbs but touch on some commonly found in the Autumn and how we can offer to our horses. The fabulous reference books Becky uses are: Animal Botanicals Seasonal Herbs by the super Rachael Maxwell and Jo Rose, and Hedgerow Medicine by Julie Briton-Seal and Matthew Seal. Don’t forget to join us over on Patreon: Little Green Stables for more and follow Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partners and Little Green Stables.

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!!!

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

In this episode we chat about training multiple animals and multiple species. How planning is really important and how working with the individual in a group setting still needs focus. Reinforcers, strategies, environment setup, on your own or in a team - we cover it today! If you are enjoying our podcast please, share, like and subscribe. You can follow Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships and Little Green Stables. Our training content and so much more can be found in our members area on Patreon/Little Green Stables

Another bonus episode! No Kate today as she’s busy planning exciting stuff, so Becky chats to her friend and fellow Physio: Harriet Kitcat from Physio My Dog. Sat in a field sharing a picnic surrounded by cows we discuss what a routine physio or bodywork session looks like. How every animal and client is individual and how treatment and treatment plans follow the individual too. How we as therapists love our work. We both train and learn together often and have great fun discussing ways we can get creative with our work. Harriet also has a podcast: It’s Not Just One Thing that focuses on all aspects with our Canine family, it’s well worth a listen. Anyway we hope you enjoy our ramblings and sorry (not sorry) for the F bomb! If you are enjoying our podcast please share, like and subscribe. You can find Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships and Little Green Stables. Don’t forget to join us on Patreon for all our fabulous videos: Patreon/Little Green Stables

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.

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

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 we talk about the training and how far we have come. How we doubt our abilities and hoe perseverance pays off. We discuss emergency medical care and how sadly sometimes we just have to get the job done, but with that in mind, how can we minimise the stress for the animal. If you are enjoying our podcast, please share, like and subscribe. You can follow Kate and Becky on: Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. For all our training content and so much more find us on Patreon/Little Green Stables.

In this weeks episode we look at Spring Forage, how Mother Nature helps us and our animals by providing the right plants at the right time. Where to forage, what to forage and how to offer. We also talk about training when the grass is greener. How can we be more rewarding to our horse than the lush grass? How to train the “Heads up” and “Heads down”, hay piles to help and the concept of “your turn,my turn”. If you are enjoying our podcast don’t forget to join us for more fun and information over at Patreon: Little Green Stables and you can follow Kate and Be ky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partners and Little Green Stables, don’t forget to share, like and subscribe.

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!! 

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

In this bonus episode, Kate and Becky are joined by Jess, Conquest centre manager as they go behind the scenes with the Mounted Police. It was an interesting visit and we watched some desensitisation training and visited the horses in their Stables. Lots to learn and lots of ideas....watch this space. If you are enjoying our podcast please share, like and subscribe. You can follow Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships and Little Green Stables. To see all our training videos, behind the scenes with the Police videos and so much more, join us on Patreon/Little Green Stables

A lot to talk about in this weeks podcast. Kate has a visit from the Police. We discuss walk outs and the challenges they bring and how we can use positive reinforcement training with fat horses and ponies. If you are enjoying our podcast please feel free to share. You can follow Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships and Little Green Stables. You will find all our training content and so much more over on Patreon: Little Green Stables

Ok so we said it was the end of season 4 BUT we have to share this. Kate has been working really hard behind the scenes for the last 2 years to bring the Equine world a new curriculum. Launching this week, we thought we should time a podcast alongside a patreon only preview for all our fabulous listeners and supporters. The equine world is changing and it’s with our children that we can promote welfare, learning and Partnerships to create a more force free society. In this podcast, the final for the year, Kate talks through her vision and the Equischolars curriculum and how together we can change the future for our children and animals for the better. If you are enjoying our podcast please share, like and subscribe. You can find Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. We would love for you to join us on Patreon/Little Green Stables for our training content and so much more. We hope you all have a super break and we look forward to learning together with you in 2022

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

In today’s podcast we chat with Rachel Bedingfield and Claire Waldron from Positive Horse Training Spain. We talk about the charity that Rachel and Claire co-founded rescuing horses in Spain, rehabilitating and retraining using positive reinforcement. Claire shares some stories of their rescues and how they have taken time and adapted to their new home and herd. We discuss the importance of observation and how this can help to create a lasting positive partnership. Claire also tells us about her new online course which launches TODAY! Rachel delves into the concept of the comfort bubble and how this is used as a baseline in all the positive training sessions you have with your horse. We discuss the charity’s mission to educate and train equine welfare and rescue charities on the foundations of positive reinforcement so that going forward the work gets spread to reach as many horses as possible. As usual we crammed as much information in as we could and we could have gone on longer! To find out more about the charity’s work in Spain check out: https://www.positivehorsetrainingspain.com you can also find them on Facebook. If you are one of our Patrons you will have exclusive access to the Q&A sessions recorded separately answering all the questions you sent in. Want to hear more? As a member you get: early bird viewings, ask our podcast guests questions, access to content covering training, behaviour principles, herbal and forage information, biomechanics and equine health and anatomy, enrichment activities and ideas and much more, so come and join our growing community: https://www.patreon.com/Little Green Stables. If you are enjoying our podcast please like, subscribe and share. You can find Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partners and Little Green Stables

In this episode we are joined with the fabulous Maisie Wake as we discuss resource guarding with our horses. Resource guarding can become really tricky and make training not as much fun as it should be. We explore what resource guarding is, how Maisie works with her herd to reduce stress and how she helped Becky through some potentially dangerous situations. We discuss the concept of “its not your turn” and so much more! You can follow Kate and Becky on: Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partners and Little Green Stables, don’t forget to check Maisie out on Facebook too: Maisie Wake. If you are enjoying our podcast, you may like to join our members club over on Patreon: patreon.com/LittleGreenStables, we would love to see you there.

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!!

In this weeks podcast we talk to Kate’s colleague and favourite nerd: Chantal. Chantal talks about her work with autistic children based on The Horse Boy method and how horses can help children learn. We also touch on the Vagus Nerve and discuss the impact that girth’s may have. As usual the discussion is full of fun with the odd naughty word! If you are enjoying our podcast please share, like and subscribe. You can follow Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partners and Little Green Stables. For all our training videos and much more, join us on Patreon/Little Green Stables

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!!

For the first time in a while it is just Kate and Becky! It's been a long time since we have caught up properly as we've been busy bees! 

We review our guests so far this year who have all been so fabulous! Becky talks about her recent holiday and the challenges we face when leaving our animals in the care of others and what happens when something goes wrong.

Becky lets us know about the books she has caught up on and some interesting discussions on octupae/octopusses?

It's a very light hearted conversation this week with the predicted tangents of course...

Stress, it’s important and affects us all. Chronic stress can lead to unhealthy relationships and bodies. In this episode we start to explore stress, what causes stress and how we can help our horses and ourselves. We start to look at some of the 8 needs. If you are enjoying our podcast please get in touch, share and like. You can find Kate and Becky on: Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partners and Little Green Stables.We also have an exclusive members club over on Patreon with training videos and more!!! Check out: Patreon/Littlegreenstables

Today we talk about the concept of personal space with our horses 🐎 Lots of discussion and rambles. We hope you enjoy! If you are enjoying our podcast please share, like and subscribe. You can follow Kate and Becky on social media: Little Green Stables and Equilogical positive equine partners. For all our training content join us: Patreon/littlegreenstables

In this podcast we discuss adding a new horse to your herd or your horse. A question asked by Daisy one of our listeners as she is preparing her horse Solo for a new arrival. Top tips on how to help the transition run smoothly with some fun stories too. You can follow us on: Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partners and Little Green Stables.

In this episode we get to talk to the lovely Kate Thornton all about the IEP

IEP stands for: International Equine Professionals & they are leading the way in Equine Welfare 

ICAN stands for: ICAN: International Companion Animal Network: putting welfare first for our companion animals 

As independent animal therapists of many modalities it is important that the animals that we treat & work with have their welfare needs met & that we are all striving to improve their quality of life 

That we as individuals continue to learn, evolve & share our knowledge to better understand the needs of the animals we are working with & those that are in our own care. 

In this podcast we discuss anthropomorphism, labelling and recognising emotions. How can we help other professionals bring in better welfare practices in the face of adversity, do we need to take into consideration different motivators? Of course lots of tangents and rabbit holes, a few forgotten words (Kate was not on her A Game) and much much more.

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To join the IEP: https://iepglobal.net/

Guess who’s back! Pumped and ready for 2022 with lots planned. We chat training, the year that’s gone, the year ahead and more!! If you are enjoying our podcast please share, like and subscribe. You can follow Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships and Little Green Stables. We would love for you to join our family over on patreon/littlegreenstable

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   

How can you tell if your horse is in pain? We discuss the obvious & more subtle signs of acute & chronic pain. How labelling behaviour can be so damaging to a horse & often leads to chronic pain going unnoticed. We talk about the importance of knowing your horse and how if you are interested in collecting data with regards to chronic pain, then a good day, bad day diary (often used in the canine world) can be a useful source of information for you & your Vet or therapist. We also have our usual rants and tangents. If you are enjoying our podcast please share, like and subscribe. You can follow Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships and Little Green Stables

The second part of our stress episode where we explore the rest of the 8 needs of the equine. We explore the natural needs of the horse and how this can help us with our training and the way we manage them, in-turn reducing the chance of chronic stress. If you are enjoying our podcast please get in touch, share and like. You can find Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partners and Little Green Stables. We also have an exclusive members club over on Patreon with training videos and so much more !! Check out: Patreon/LittleGreenStables

In this episode we are joined by the fabulous Maisie Wake and her herd. Recording outside in the UK in October! We discuss training challenges, working with Mules, how to work with our horses when they are low on trust and having other handlers work positively with them. Maisie has been building up some super behaviours with her two Mares in preparation for an upcoming vet visit, videos can be found on our Patreon site. If you are enjoying our podcast please share, like and subscribe. You can follow Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partners and Little Green Stables. For our training videos and so much more content, join us on Patreon/Little Green Stables

On today's podcast we have the wonderful Trudi Dempsey, Equine Trainer and Behaviourist. With over 30 years of experience under her belt, Trudi tells us how she got into training with +R back at a time when it was almost unheard of in the equine world!

The three of us have an open and honest discussion about training, the pitfalls and the ups and downs of behavioural consulting. Kate and Trudi discuss the feat of getting people on board with +R versus meeting the expectations of the client.

Becky shares her experience in working with two trainers who are very different in many ways but how by building community we are better equipped to support both learner and equine journeys.

What does the future hold for +R? Trudi shares her thoughts and talks about the need for more places where people can practise with +R trained horses.

EARLY BIRD CODE: O2V97NJL

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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 

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

Introducing a new horse to your herd. In this podcast we discuss adding a new horse to your herd or your horse. A question asked by Daisy one of our listeners as she is preparing her horse Solo for a new arrival. Top tips on how to help the transition run smoothly with some fun stories too. You can follow us on: Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partners and Little Green Stables.

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

The last in the series before we take a break until the New Year. In this weeks podcast we talk about the importance of being present during our training and why we owe it to our horses to be mindful when we are with them. We can try as hard as we like to control the environment in our training session but we cannot control everything. Being present allows us to tap into what is happening in that moment and pick up on the smallest of changes that may affect our horse. Kate discusses equine therapy work and gives some top tips quick exercises on how to bring yourself into the present moment. If you are enjoying our podcast, please like, subscribe and if you have time review. You can find Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships and Little Green Stables. For our training content and so much more, join us on Patreon/little green stables. Have a wonderful Christmas and we will see you in the New Year!

Today we talk about how we can further our training and learning with our equines when the weather is against us. This week in the UK we have been hit with snow, wind and rain which makes it difficult to spend time and work with our horses but do not fear, there are always things we can do. Maybe doing nothing is actually what you need to do with your horse right now, maybe some enrichment might be needed for a shut down horse or maybe some basic husbandry skills.

Whatever it may be, take a listen we hope you enjoy!

How important is the health of the hoof, we explore the hoof, listen to some fun stories and have 5 top tips for you that you can do to help keep your horses feet healthy. An interview with Clive: the hoof Jedi from Progressive Hoofcare. If you are enjoying our podcast don’t forget to subscribe, you can also access lots of extra content by joining us over on Patreon: Little Green Stables. To follow Clive, check him out on Facebook: Progressive Hoofcare. You can find Becky and Kate 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 this episode we look at separation anxiety. It isn’t widely recognised in the mainstream equine world, and if it is, it is largely ignored and this can lead to heighten stress, unwanted behaviour and potential medical issues. What can we do to help our horse that has separation anxiety? If it’s the horse with separation anxiety leaving the yard or field or the horse being left behind, we look at ways to help. How can we help the horse at a livery yard cope with separation anxiety and top tips for separation anxiety at shows and new places. If you are enjoying our episodes please share, like and subscribe. We would love to hear from you and are happy to look at a topic of your choice to cover in one of our podcasts. You can follow Becky and Kate on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partners and Little Green Stables.

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

Picking up hooves, can be tricky.....how can we train this? How can we help the horse who has past trauma linked with picking up feet. Discussion, tips and some training ideas along with Shroom talk and other craziness. If you are enjoying our podcast please share, like and subscribe. You can follow Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Check out our training and so much more on our members club over on Patreon/Little Green Stables

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

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!

In this weeks episode we discuss Protected Contact and how useful it is for all of us. Often we think of protected contact as needed for horses that are considered unsafe, dangerous, untouched or with a severe abuse history and yes, protected contact can help in these situations. But we also look at other ways protected contact can be used and how successful it can be with every day training. We are joined by Becky’s rescue Parrots for this episode so you may hear them in the background. You can follow us on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partners and Little Green Stables.

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

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.

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*Warning* this podcast features some sexual references. Kate and Becky discuss their simulator training day with the fabulous Heather Moffett. A discussion taking place in the car on the way home from the simulator day. It was a super day with some of our fabulous Patreons. Heather was so giving with her time and patient with us all. We discuss the day, how our riding can block the movement and we have a warning so please listen with headphones or in a private space. If you are enjoying our podcast please share, like and subscribe. You can follow Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partners and Little Green Stables. Don’t forget to join us over on Patreon/Little Green Stables for all our training videos and so much more.

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 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 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 💕🐎💕

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

In today’s podcast we talk to Dr Tamzin Furtado, Post Doctorate Research at Liverpool University. Tamzin has conducted a variety of research studies throughout her career including Managing Equine Obesity, Equine wellbeing on livery yards and her most recent paper on the use of alternative grazing systems in the UK. We discuss: What is the best way to manage obesity in our equines? How we have become conditioned to seeing overweight horses and dogs as the norm. We delve into the reality of being a livery yard manager and what a difficult job this can be. Becky shares a story about a livery yard and has her perspective changed after listening to Tamzin. We also touch on human behaviour change, is there a bright future and how a multi-disciplined approach is needed to affect this change. We look to the future and chat about sustainability and horse care and how in an ever changing climate we need to seek out new ways of manging our land. As always there’s an interruption from an animal, a few tangents and Tamzin also “out – analogies” Becky (for our regular listeners you’ll know this is rare!!) We could have chatted to Tamzin for hours about all the incredible work she has done and her findings but parent duties put a stop to that. We are very much looking forward to having Tamzin with us again to discuss her future projects. 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 we have our Patreon members club: www.patreon.com/LittleGreenStables where we share all our training videos, anatomy, bodywork, forage, enrichment and working with other species content and even more!!  

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

In today’s podcast we discuss the power of giving a pause. It’s something both Kate and Becky have been introducing to our training with the horses. Becky uses the pause in a slightly different way when training Squawk her rescue African Grey as he is bonded to her husband and when the daylight changes this can offer hormone challenges. The passive pause is used with the horses at the beginning of the training session and in between each separate behaviour being trained (unless you are chaining ). The passive pause has been so valuable for creating calmness in the training and some valuable processing time for both human learner and horse learner. We have introduced it successfully with Rum, and Kate has been introducing the passive pause successfully with the Conquest Horses, videos of this training can be found on our Patreon members page: Little Green Stables. We recorded this podcast before our interview with the fantastic Trudi Dempsey, and decided to publish after our podcast with Trudi went out, so please bare in mind the time lag. We hope you are enjoying our podcast and if you are, please share, like and subscribe. You can follow Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships and Little Green Stables. We would love to meet you in our members club over on Patreon: Little Green Stables.

In today's podcast we are joined by the brilliant Dr Emily Kieson Director of Research at the MiMer Centre and the equally brilliant Jessie Sams from Animal Behaviour and Trauma Recovery Service and behaviour consultant and research assistant at the MiMer Centre.

Kate had the pleasure of hosting Emily and Jessie at Conquest where they explored human - equine interactions in more detail. In this episode we discuss the importance of creating trusting relationships outside of the learning quadrant. Positive reinforcement is an effective tool for training and although we can sometimes believe that we are giving our horses choice, that choice is of our construct. How can we interact with our equines without an agenda, how can we start a conversation based on our horse's way of talking? 

As always we didn't have enough time but we will be recording more with this fab duo!

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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

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

In this weeks podcast we discuss stationary targeting. Useful for procedures, working with multiple horses, feeding time for the herd and lots more! We also go through types of stationary targets plus what to watch out for when introducing the behaviour. You can follow Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partners and Little Green Stables.

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 

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In this podcast we discuss haltering. Why might an equine find a headcollar aversive? Are some types of halter better than others? How can we train our friends to accept the headcollar in a calm and relaxed manner? We also briefly touch on a study of halter training foals in New Zealand and some interesting results that came out of it. As usual a few tangents including an animal fight outside Kate's window that gets her a little distracted! If you are enjoying our podcast please share, like and subscribe. You can follow Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Check out our training videos and so much more: patreon/Little Green Stables

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

Equine Search and Rescue is a thing.... Kate has been inspired by this training as we have been playing Hide & Seek with Rum. Because the horse can access fast and different terrain, follow a scent and the ability to detect movement far away it makes them perfect for the job. Yet again we are in awe of how amazing horses are. So what does that mean for us? Well Hide and Seek is a great recall game, it’s similar to A2B but with a different slant as the horse has to find the human. We have been playing this game with Rum, hiding in different places and in different areas and we will progress with this. Why bother to play Hide and Seek? Why not? Its great fun and you really engage the seeking system in the horse, recall is always an advantage and if you ever needed your horse to find you..... viola the training is already there. If you are enjoying our podcast please share and subscribe. You can follow Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Equilogical Positive Equine Partners and Little Green Stables. Don’t forget to join us on Patreon: Little Green Stables for all our training videos and more!!!

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.

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