Equilogical Podcast

In today’s podcast we talk to Dr Tamzin Furtado, Post Doctorate Research at Liverpool University. Tamzin has conducted a variety of research studies throughout her career including Managing Equine Obesity, Equine wellbeing on livery yards and her most recent paper on the use of alternative grazing systems in the UK. We discuss: What is the best way to manage obesity in our equines? How we have bec...

In this episode we get to talk to the lovely Kate Thornton all about the IEP IEP stands for: International Equine Professionals & they are leading the way in Equine Welfare  ICAN stands for: ICAN: International Companion Animal Network : putting welfare first for our companion animals  As independent animal therapists of many modalities it is important that the animals that we treat...

Discussions around supper with the fabulous Roz Buckley from Pool4Dogs. We talk hands, handling & can you handle ...? How hands can provoke fear & many emotions for our animals & how we need to be aware of our hands with our training, touch & the importance of hands in the animals individual history. Roz talks bats, marine animals, falconry and her work with dogs & rehabilitation. We talk old scho...

Picking up hooves, can be tricky.....how can we train this? How can we help the horse who has past trauma linked with picking up feet. Discussion, tips and some training ideas along with Shroom talk and other craziness. If you are enjoying our podcast please share, like and subscribe. You can follow Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Check out our training and so much more on our m...

This week we look at stereotypies and repetitive behaviour in our horses. Kate discusses some study findings and we talk about the emotions and human opinions that having a horse with a repetitive behaviour can make people feel. How we can help best support our horses with these behaviours and much more. If you are enjoying our podcast please share, like and subscribe. You can follow Kate and Beck...

In this episode we chat about training multiple animals and multiple species. How planning is really important and how working with the individual in a group setting still needs focus. Reinforcers, strategies, environment setup, on your own or in a team - we cover it today! If you are enjoying our podcast please, share, like and subscribe. You can follow Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and Y...

How are you with your timing? What are the benefits of clicking too early, too late & more! In this podcast we discuss & delve deep into the process of the click, what it means, what is important after the click. Stories & discussion about working with different species & how the individual learner is so important in our training & learning together. If you are enjoying our podcast please share, l...

How can you tell if your horse is in pain? We discuss the obvious & more subtle signs of acute & chronic pain. How labelling behaviour can be so damaging to a horse & often leads to chronic pain going unnoticed. We talk about the importance of knowing your horse and how if you are interested in collecting data with regards to chronic pain, then a good day, bad day diary (often used in the canine w...

Guess who’s back! Pumped and ready for 2022 with lots planned. We chat training, the year that’s gone, the year ahead and more!! If you are enjoying our podcast please share, like and subscribe. You can follow Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships and Little Green Stables. We would love for you to join our family over on patreon/littlegreenstab...

Ok so we said it was the end of season 4 BUT we have to share this. Kate has been working really hard behind the scenes for the last 2 years to bring the Equine world a new curriculum. Launching this week, we thought we should time a podcast alongside a patreon only preview for all our fabulous listeners and supporters. The equine world is changing and it’s with our children that we can promote we...

The last in the series before we take a break until the New Year. In this weeks podcast we talk about the importance of being present during our training and why we owe it to our horses to be mindful when we are with them. We can try as hard as we like to control the environment in our training session but we cannot control everything. Being present allows us to tap into what is happening in that...

Another bonus episode! No Kate today as she’s busy planning exciting stuff, so Becky chats to her friend and fellow Physio: Harriet Kitcat from Physio My Dog. Sat in a field sharing a picnic surrounded by cows we discuss what a routine physio or bodywork session looks like. How every animal and client is individual and how treatment and treatment plans follow the individual too. How we as therapis...

In this bonus episode, Kate and Becky are joined by Jess, Conquest centre manager as they go behind the scenes with the Mounted Police. It was an interesting visit and we watched some desensitisation training and visited the horses in their Stables. Lots to learn and lots of ideas....watch this space. If you are enjoying our podcast please share, like and subscribe. You can follow Kate and Becky o...

In today’s podcast we discuss the power of giving a pause. It’s something both Kate and Becky have been introducing to our training with the horses. Becky uses the pause in a slightly different way when training Squawk her rescue African Grey as he is bonded to her husband and when the daylight changes this can offer hormone challenges. The passive pause is used with the horses at the beginning of...

On today's podcast we have the wonderful Trudi Dempsey, Equine Trainer and Behaviourist. With over 30 years of experience under her belt, Trudi tells us how she got into training with +R back at a time when it was almost unheard of in the equine world! The three of us have an open and honest discussion about training, the pitfalls and the ups and downs of behavioural consulting. Kate and Trudi dis...

In this episode we are joined by the fabulous Maisie Wake and her herd. Recording outside in the UK in October! We discuss training challenges, working with Mules, how to work with our horses when they are low on trust and having other handlers work positively with them. Maisie has been building up some super behaviours with her two Mares in preparation for an upcoming vet visit, videos can be fou...

In this weeks podcast we talk to Kate’s colleague and favourite nerd: Chantal. Chantal talks about her work with autistic children based on The Horse Boy method and how horses can help children learn. We also touch on the Vagus Nerve and discuss the impact that girth’s may have. As usual the discussion is full of fun with the odd naughty word! If you are enjoying our podcast please share, like and...

In this podcast we talk about the benefits of targeting with a moving target or a stationary one. We have touched on targets many times before and how they can help with our training, aid focus in tricky situations and be useful when we are having to do veterinary procedures. But the target can be used badly and cause frustration, and when is the right time to fade the target...? If you are enjoyi...

A lot to talk about in this weeks podcast. Kate has a visit from the Police. We discuss walk outs and the challenges they bring and how we can use positive reinforcement training with fat horses and ponies. If you are enjoying our podcast please feel free to share. You can follow Kate and Becky on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube: Equilogical Positive Equine Partnerships and Little Green Stables. Y...

*Warning* this podcast features some sexual references. Kate and Becky discuss their simulator training day with the fabulous Heather Moffett. A discussion taking place in the car on the way home from the simulator day. It was a super day with some of our fabulous Patreons. Heather was so giving with her time and patient with us all. We discuss the day, how our riding can block the movement and we...

In this episode we discuss the training groups that we are involved with at the moment and how good they are at focusing specific behaviour. Becky shares a top tip from Trudi that she has practiced with Rum, identifying if Rum recognises the click as the marker…and can Rum wait for the food to come to him. We touch on shaping plans and what an important aspect of our training they are. If you are...

In this podcast we talk about social media and sharing videos and pictures of our work. Kate finds social media tricky, while Becky looks at it as an opportunity to raise animal health and welfare. Sharing to the world can be daunting and scary but it can also be fun, supportive and a chance to learn and grow from each other. Love it or hate it, social media is here to stay so if we can, let’s emb...

In this episode we explore the importance of sleep for our horses. This is a topic Kate has been keen to cover for some time, and she has been spurred on by a recent webinar hosted by EBTA on Equine Sleep Deprivation with Dr Joe Bertone. Kate and Becky booked tickets for the webinar but had to play catch-up due to family stuff. We cover a lot of ground in this episode and record it in the evening...

Kate discusses her recent foraging and making sessions and how foraging helps her feel relaxed, we look at the reasons why. Coming to the end of Summer in the UK we don’t go into much detail about Summer herbs but touch on some commonly found in the Autumn and how we can offer to our horses. The fabulous reference books Becky uses are: Animal Botanicals Seasonal Herbs by the super Rachael Maxwell...

We are back! Season 4 kicks off with Becky standing corrected and giving a shout out to Science. We discuss Shaping plans and training with them, why they are useful and why is it that some of us find them tricky. A very quick book review of the fantastic read “Canine Enrichment for the real world” by Allie Bender and Emily Strong, so much in the book could be related to our horses. Don’t forget t...