Horses in warfare

compasses to find designated objects the fastest. Dave and I aren’t fast, but we had fun doing this a couple times. We also took a trip with the horses down to see my Mom on the farm. We had fun riding the horses around in the pastures. Recently, Dave rolled our truck and totaled. We will need to get a replacement before we can do more travelling with the horses. Again, Dave was fortunate and had no injuries. A lot of my time this summer was spend gardening. I love growing flowers and…

It all started when I was a little girl, I had always wanted a horse. So when I was 8 I started to take lessons but that only lasted for a few years, hard times hit and I wasn’t able to afford to ride anymore. I was too young to be able to help around a barn so for the time being I had to give up my love of riding and my time with horses. That was until I turned 16 and I was able to start volunteering with horses. When my parents split up and it sent me into a depression, I dreaded getting up…

have been conducted on this topic so more can be known about this disease. Most of this can be avoided when purchasing an equid for personal use by talking to the previous owner. Equids are any type of animal that has hooves and is related to the horse including donkeys and zebras. This paper takes a look at equine infectious anemia and will examine the laws, control and prevention, and how the disease currently stands in the world. The first case of equine infectious anemia (EIA) was reported…

only one corrupted our youth, while the others improved them.” (Apology 25 B) He alludes back to 13 B of Euthyphro with the mention of the horse and horse breeders, where only the horse breeders are able to help the horses, meanwhile anyone else who is not a horse breeder and owns and uses horses, corrupts them. He says, “Tell me: does this also apply to horses, do you think? That all men improve them and one individual corrupts them? Or is quite the contrary true?..” (25 B Apology) Here, it is…

I grew up on a farm with only two close houses nearby. From birth I had my own horse. Both of my parents worked full time. My mom worked nights after we go home from school and my dad would come home about an hour after my mom left. My dad had other things to do when he got home, as well as take care of my other 3 younger siblings. Therefore, I would run over to the neighbor’s house after school every day. Out of my two of my neighbors Only one had a child. Their daughter was 4 years older than…

know who we are anymore. We hear it all the time, “be true to your Self”. But what does that really mean? And how do we do it? Last week I wrote about how horses teach…

The ground was shaking. I stood still for a brief moment. It was a herd buffalo running towards a cliff. They were running through the field, as if it was away from someone. I took a second glance and saw that it was my people which the buffalo were running away from. Everyone that was in my band was chasing after the buffalo, including my daughter. Had I known that they were going on a hunt I would have gone with them. It was in that moment that I knew something didn’t feel right. In Alberta,…

Thom Jones’s “A White Horse” is the story of a man, Ad Magic, who suffers from amnesia following epileptic episodes. He has managed to find his way to India and is completely unaware of who he is (29). This character is created by Thom Jones to portray the desire felt by most people at some point in their life to simply escape from themselves, from the realities of life, and to try and find some deeper meaning to what they have to go through and eventually find happiness. The story follows Ad…

Hippotherapy has been used as far back as the time of the Greeks. Hippocrates did a great deal of studying on this type of therapy process. Hippotherapy is a type of therapy that involves horses and people working together. The children will brush, tack, and ride their horse. Riding the horse allows the child to use their core more; therefore, improving their balance, and even motor functions. Through the years, hippotherapy has evolved and broken off into four separate types. There is: valuing,…

Cowboy Courage A good horse, a simple life, and the open plains. This is often what a person thinks of when they think of cowboys. However, what the often don’t think of is a cowboys strong set of morals. There are 10 of these morals which are also known as the cowboy ethics. These are simple rules by which cowboys live by, which are what sets them apart from any other walk of life. It is difficult for a person to live by all of these ethics, but any person can live by a few of them. Out of all…