In September, the On the Fence 4-H Club, a local community group of Montoursville, partnered with Empower Stride, an Equine ...

Licking Heights High School students in the special education program visit Dreams on Horseback once a week to learn life ...

Sometimes social skills can be taught better by a horse than a human. Special needs students in the Oxford Area are learning from horses this summer in East Nottingham Township as part of a new class ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD TV8)-We’ve heard that animals have the power to heal. That is exactly what the horses have the ability to do at The Barn for Equine Learning. Horses are paired with licensed ...

Editor's note: This article is part of TheHorse.com's ongoing coverage of topics presented at the 2012 International Society of Equitation Science conference, held July 18-20 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Perhaps it was the firefighters’ unfamiliar head gear, or the bright yellow stripes on their heavy black coats, that made the horse want to keep its distance. Or maybe it was the way the “rescuers” ...

King was ready to lie down and die. The 31-year-old black Arabber horse had lugged a produce cart through Baltimore City streets for years and “was just done with everything” when he arrived at ...

Many riders suspect that horses training in stressful situations don’t always retain what they’ve learned. But researchers have recently found that the same is true when the stress comes after the ...

A steep hill marked by three-foot deep ravines, chaparral, large boulders and loose rocks rises above Joanne Huttenhoff as she nudges her horse to go faster. Soon, she and her horse will tackle the ...

LOWELL TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — A memorial service for 13 therapy horses commemorated what they gave to the Lowell community and beyond Saturday afternoon. It’s been one week since The Barn for Equine ...

“The Man Who Listens to Horses,” by Monty Roberts. Random House. 258 pages. $23. This ought to be a fascinating book about a remarkable person. Monty Roberts says he has learned to talk with horses, ...

Every since I can remember animals have trusted me. Even before I took my Tibetan Buddhist vows of no killing. Such beasts of our land appear to have finely tuned instincts, and can sense a person's ...