1623: Can Travel Be Educational for Your Horse?

0:00Hello, everybody. I'm Justin Long, host of Straight from the Horsedoctor's mouth, and I want to talk to you about something every horse owner dreads, emergencies. In these moments, indecision makes it hard to know what to do, or if you should call your vet. That's why Dr. Latcher and I created the Equine Emergency Vet Care Guide. This is an app that walks you step-by-step through common equine emergencies, helps you decide when to call, and tells you exactly what information your veterinarian needs. It's not a replacement for your vet, and helps you work with them towards the best outcome for your horse. Search Equine Emergency App in the App Store or Google Play and be prepared before the emergency happens. You are listening to the Horse Radio Network, part of the Equine Network Family. Greetings, everyone. Coach Jen here, and thanks for tuning in to Horse Tip Daily, episode 1623. This time at Mary Kitzmeler and I sit down and have a chat about aclimatization.

1:03Say that three times fast, and how you can utilize it in your horse training program. So what is our training tip today, and what inspired it? So these last few shows, as many of you know, I've recently acquired a Malinois puppy, and her name is Imper, and she is six months old today, actually. Today's her birthday. Yeah, I just realized that. And she's doing amazing, and you know, like any puppy, she is all over the place, very ADHD, plus she's a high-energy breed. But I wanted to start taking her with me to horse shows as early as possible and just get her acclimated. So that's what the training tips surrounds with both horses and dogs is the importance of just taking them on the road and letting the trip do the training. And there was a really great cowboy Bobby Kerr who recently passed away, and he told me

2:04about how he would get his mustangs ready for the mustang makeovers, and he would just like haul him to town, and you know, just anywhere he was going, he'd throw the horses in the trailer and go, and take him to the grocery store. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, like, you know, just go into town, park your trailer and you know, go get your lunch and then go home or, you know, walk him around the street. He lived in Haiko, which is a very western, like if you saw horse riding down the road, you'd be like, yeah, that's normal, yeah. But he talked about how when you just take him to some of these events, it's like putting 30 days of training on him in a weekend, and that is exactly true. And it's not even that you take them and you're training them really hard over the weekend. Being there, being there, it's like, it's like you put 30 days of solid riding on him. Very interesting. And that's one of the places where I've had a little bit of a wake-up call, the vast majority of the horses I've, I'm going to call it, started over the years, have been

3:08off the racetrack. And you forget how much they've learned partly through acclimation, because from a non-horse racing point of view, the training, there's not a lot of that going on, they don't know what legs are, they don't know what bending is. But they have learned so much through that acclimation process, all the activity and things are constantly changing, a lot of them ship to different tracks. And you forget that not all horses get that. Want to reach a passionate, engaged audience of horse lovers? The Horse Radio Network, with thousands of listeners worldwide, offers unique sponsorship opportunities to connect your brand with horse owners, riders, and enthusiasts. Over 90% of our listeners have bought a product from a HRN ad in the past year. Partner with HRN and take your brand to the next level. Visit www.horseradionetwork.com slash advertise today.