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	<title>Horse Crazy</title>
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	<description>Mostly about my horses and our adventures. With a few cat and dog anecdotes thrown in.</description>
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		<title>Dressy Gal Becomes a Trail Horse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I took Dressy Gal (my new Standardbred - just off the track) up to the Copeland Forest, which is just north of Barrie, Ontario. It&#8217;s a lovely area to ride in&#8230; my favourite trails of all in fact. I parked at friends, and we all went out riding together.
This was Dressy&#8217;s fifth ride ever. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ramsaybooks.com/blog/index.php/archives/31</link>
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		<title>Dressy Gal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long while since I&#8217;ve posted anything here. Been busy I guess.
I&#8217;ve been working for a racing stable since last winter, which accounts for some of the time crunch. I started out last fall, hotwalking down at Woodbine. But I pretty much walked my poor feet into crisis and had to quit that. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ramsaybooks.com/blog/index.php/archives/30</link>
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		<title>More Songs About Horses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some traditional/folk songs about horses&#8230;

Western and/or Cowboy songs:
The Strawberry Roan - Bronc rider meets his match
The Zebra Dun - Wherein a &#8220;dude&#8221; with town manners turns the tables on a crew of cowboys by riding &#8220;Dunny&#8221; with aplomb.
I Ride An Old Paint - A particularly lovely melody. When I was growing up, my Quarab mare [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ramsaybooks.com/blog/index.php/archives/28</link>
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		<title>Songs about horses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I started poking around the net yesterday looking for songs about or relating to horses. And found some interesting ones that I&#8217;d never heard of. Turned out to be quite a bit of fun. So I&#8217;ve decided to create a list of horse songs that I like&#8230;
Here&#8217;s the first installment:

Since She Started to Ride/Jonathan Richman [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ramsaybooks.com/blog/index.php/archives/27</link>
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		<title>Pictures from the clicker training clinic in September</title>
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		<link>http://ramsaybooks.com/blog/index.php/archives/26</link>
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		<title>On Feeding Treats to Horses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Old horseman&#8217;s wisdom is that you don&#8217;t hand feed treats to horses or else you&#8217;ll encourage your horse to bite. This is really the same as suggesting that if you don&#8217;t want your horse to buck, you shouldn&#8217;t get on his back. Does he buck because you got on his back? Well, yes. But horse [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ramsaybooks.com/blog/index.php/archives/25</link>
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		<title>Extinction of behaviour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading a book called Excel-erated Learning: Explaining in Plain English How Dogs Learn and How Best to Teach Them.
It&#8217;s by a Psychologist/Animal Behaviourist who runs a clinic for problem pets. Basically a dog psychologist I guess. Anyway, the book is really about learning theory. Despite the title, it&#8217;s really NOT in plain English. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ramsaybooks.com/blog/index.php/archives/24</link>
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		<title>Licking and Chewing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting article in the December edition of The Horse magazine. It&#8217;s by Animal Behaviourist Sue McDonnell, and discusses &#8220;licking and chewing&#8221;. This is a behaviour that natural horsemanship trainers often refer to as a sign that the horse is learning or thinking about something, or possibly a sign that the horse accepts your leadership.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ramsaybooks.com/blog/index.php/archives/23</link>
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		<title>training philosophy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot lately about training philosophies. And I guess I keep coming around to the fact that it&#8217;s all about the trainer, not the horse. I think I can afford to say that, since I have had King to deal with, so no one can suggest that I had an &#8220;easy&#8221; horse.
King [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ramsaybooks.com/blog/index.php/archives/19</link>
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		<title>Winter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just love winter. Ugh. The water trough froze. I was planning on getting a float de-icer for it anyway, but Jen didn&#8217;t realize that I needed the trough right next to the barn so I could run the extension cord out to the de-icer. So the last time she was here, she moved it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ramsaybooks.com/blog/index.php/archives/22</link>
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