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If the mini horses are trained to the level that a guide animal is trained, that will solve a lot of those issues. And it is more expensive, but feeding a mini horse in a city, using either compressed hay bails or hay cubes could be a solution for hay storage. Also, horse manure is more...

ok then, so how can we organize and make this happen? Horses should not be outcasts living only on farms in rural areas. We have to organize, educate, and bring them back into cities--and yes they can be housebroken.

Is it just me, or do the local news outlets, newspapers, local broadcast TV channels such as your local nbc or fox channel, whenever they show animals needing rescued, it is always dogs or cats. Cities have parks and bike trails, so why don't these news outlets promote people having small, 80 to...

I have an update: but first, if anyone on this forum is interested in helping with the new guide horse organization "EquineEye", in any way, contact Holly Fisher, of Fisher's Farrier Service in Illinois. She can be found on facebook. Holly Fisher has been a horse trainer for 25 years and she...

hi Cindy (whittle hooves)... welcome to the forum. I am from PA. I am blind, and Holly Fisher from Fisher's Farrier Service in Illinois has begun to set up an organization called EquineEye.org -- in order to train miniature horses, particularly Falabellas, as guide horses for people who are...

Today, while leading Moon around, he decided to lay down and roll in the dust. I never experienced that before. So I backed up a bit and left go of the lead rope. I wasn't sure if he would kick me or not. My son then got the lead rope as Moon got back up. Should I have let go of the lead rope...

oh yes Jazzy was a sweet little pony!! The barn owner is having a trail ride next month and it happens to fall on my birthday. She said she doesn't have a horse for me to ride, so I said how about I just take Moon for a long walk along the trail. Then she said "I don't know he'd probably try to...

I don't know--but Moon was in a bity mood today. I think he either wanted out of his stall or he wanted hay and grain. He had to wait for Aaron. Someone moved the grain bucket otherwise I would have given him some grain to hold him over until Aaron brought hay for him. Then he would have eaten...

I am always calm around them. I let ponies like River, and all of them, I let them sniff me as much as they want, all over if they want. River and Jazzy, at times, was quite enthusiastic about sniffing me. And if they sniff at my face or near my face, I sniff back. I think it seems to let them...

It was quite a surprise when River gave me "kisses" like that. Maybe she just wanted to explore my face more, or she smelled something interesting in my mouth that I just ate, or she just wanted to show more affection?

The small black one is Jazzy, the other larger one is Moon.

I was born in 1982, blind from birth, with no eyesight at all except for some light perception in my left eye, from retinopathy of prematurity and glaucoma. When I was six years old, my grandparents got me a newfoundland dog as a pet. The dog would run around outside, run at me and knock me...

She is going to meet with the breeder tomorrow. She asked me if I can come to illinois, once training progresses, to become acquainted with my new guide. I am in eastern Pennsylvania, so it looks like I'll be going to Illinois probably sometime next year.

I found a guide horse trainer. Below is a summary of emails between me and her. Holly Fisher, a Farrier from Illinois, shared her journey into training miniature guide horses, a passion stemming from her lifelong love of horses and extensive experience in horse training and farriery...

There is no sound in this video for me to hear.

If there is a lead rope attached, I could certainly feel what direction it moves in, when it decides to do so. I don't really have to worry about that, yet. I'm still taking lessons, learning the basics and then I have to save money. I did much better cleaning Moon's hooves today. I feel quite...

I will probably be working with Moon again today. Maybe today he will be a bit better about picking up his feet and picking out his hooves.

Putting on the chain lead was more difficult because he kept moving his head around and pushing his head into me. If at some point I manage to get a mini horse foal to begin training to become a gide animal, would it behave a lot like how Moon was behaving? Or are foals even more energetic than...

Today's lesson went well, I think. I had Moon today, a new medium-size pony. It was more difficult to get him to pick up his feet to clean his hooves. Much more than with Jazzy and Teddy. I at least got the front left one clean--once I realized I had to push back on his leg with my elbow while...

I don't have a mini horse or mini donkey yet. That is good to know about the dry lot though. Personally, I am interested in training a mini horse or mini donkey to become a guide animal for me, since I am blind... Just like how Alexandra Kurland trained Panda to become Ann Edie's guide horse...