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For me, this story helps to demonstrate the importance of limiting the kind of stress that horses might feel when they are dealing with physical problems, and how quickly and completely their disposition and outlook on life can change once those issues have been resolved.

In another situation several years ago, I was dealing with a bit of a dilemma in regard to our horses, in particular, the horses that travel with us when we are on the road doing clinics. I have always owned at least one, and usually more, fairly good-sized saddle horse. These are horses that usually weigh between 1200 to 1400 pounds and stand anywhere from 15.1 to 16.3 hands. They are the horses I had ranched with: big enough to drag a calf to the fire, doctor a steer, or pony a young horse. They are big enough so they can physically handle the work.

However, due to various circumstances over about a three-year period, we suddenly found that all of the horses in our herd of seven were about the same size, roughly 1100 pounds and between 14.2 and 15.1 hands. They could still do the kind of ranch work we needed, but none were physically substantial enough to hold their own should we latch on to a struggling horse or steer that was their same size or bigger.