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Bears, Oh My!
Read MoreBears in our Front Yard
When my horse is worried, I listen! My husband got these photos in our front yard one afternoon. A second cub is just off-camera. A few days later as I rode in the woods, Bronzz froze, head up, heart pounding. He often pauses to track something thru the underbrush, but this was real alarm. I didn’t see anything, but I trust my horse. I let Bronzz tell me when it was ok to move on.
When riding and training my horses I was forever trying to put myself
in the place of the animal and to think from his point of view...
Col. Alois Podhajsky, Director Spanish Riding School (1939-1965)
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