This episode starts with sneezing. Naturally. "I expect nothing less from you lot ..."

#JellyfishDontSneeze which somehow becomes important enough to deserve its own hashtag.

Then one of our listeners from Canada asked us: “What is your biggest hot take on anything equine or animal related?”

Which immediately exposed the fact that Barbara didn’t actually know what a “hot take” was. Or for us Irish/UK folks… “an unpopular opinion“.

So Jen had to explain it to Barbara... And from there… honestly, things escalated.

We got into:

• why travelling horses alone in single trailers might be far worse than we admit
• why cribbing collars should probably be set on fire
• why “moving the feet” is often punishment dressed up as training
• why emotional regulation cannot be created through pressure and movement
• why allostatic load is massively oversimplified in horse training
• why behaviour is diagnostic information, not inconvenience
• why cutting things out of bodies rarely “fixes” the actual problem
• why separating the brain from the body makes absolutely no sense
• why confidence and competence are very, very different things

Also: Barbara says Beyoncé isn’t very good. #YouAreCanceled

This episode goes everywhere, horse welfare, behaviour, medicine, Beyoncé, training culture, critical thinking, a dead rabbit (see bonus Ep.) and the very human habit of accepting the first answer we’re given because it sounds confident.

Some of these opinions might annoy people. Good. Sure why not.
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Got a question you are burning to asking us, nothing is off limitis, or do you have a behaviour issues you’re trying to figure out? Send us a voice note. Your voice, your question, your community is here.

Real cases. Real answers. All madness (guaranteed, the madness bit anyway).

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Meet Your Hosts

Barbara Hardman (Bright Horse Equiation)
www.brighthorse.ie

📧barbara.j.hardman@brighthorse.ie ☎️+353 85 143 8688

Jen Nash (The Equine Method)
www.theequinemethod.co.uk

📧 Info@TheEquineMethod.co.uk ☎️+44 7902920923