By Maddy Butcher Gray Researchers are starting to examine voice and its impact on equine behavior. [Do they deserve an ‘Ivory Tower’ label? Read more here.] They ask: When you talk with your horse, does he listen? In one study at Nottingham Trent University, researchers […]
Waking up to no horses in the pasture is not a great way to start the day. All five were gone when I peeked out in the pre-dawn hours. Somehow a gate had become unfastened. I pulled on boots and coat and raced out in […]
By Maddy Butcher Gray Dogs love Downton Abbey. It’s true. My dog watches it with me every week. That’s far-fetched reasoning, of course, drawn up by much subjectivity and human interpretation. And it reminds me of two recent studies on music and horse behavior: A […]