Monthly Archives: December 2008

Ending Horse Slaughter

If you are in the horse rescue business and are debating about whether or not slaughter is necessary to control the horse overpopulation. You need to know about Nathan Winograd http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/10/02/petscol.DTL Nathan is a Stanford Law grad that is putting an end to kill shelters for cats and dogs one county at a time. It’s…

The Square Peg Holiday Post

Happy Holidays reader. This story is a gift. Given to you this crazy season. I can’t think of anything more precious or more timely. Enjoy. The Star Thrower by Loren Eiseley One day, a man was walking along the shore. As he looked down the beach, he saw a young person reaching down to the…

What’s the Deal with Dressage?

What’s the deal with this “Dressage” thing? Maybe you were able to catch a glimpse of the Olympic Dressage Competition on television or maybe you watched the travelling Lipizzan show as a kid. Your impression was that while beautiful, these “trick” horses had been taught their lovely skipping, prancing and dance movements in a manner…

Riders aged 7 and up
gathered in three different sessions to learn the complicated rules
of the game while they struggled with the improbability of hitting a
ball from a moving horse.