The February 2009 National Geographic magazine, both paper and online, has an excellent but sobering article about the plight of the wild horses in the ten Western states where they are trying to survive. Writer Alexandra Fuller gives a little … Continue reading
All cats’ frontal lobes are 3.5 percent of the brain compared with dogs’ at 7 percent and we humans at a whopping 29 percent. I learned this from the wonderful book I’m reading, Animals Make Us Human. Written by the … Continue reading
Horses and my family go back a long way. My maiden name was Coultous, which a University of Edinburgh professor informed me meant “Colt House.” How cool is that? I had relatives long, long ago, centuries probably, who kept horses. … Continue reading
Of the many rationalizations for this race, its description as “spiritual” by its defenders is the stuff of which delusion is made. It is not spiritual, or if you prefer, sacred, to put either horses or their riders into a … Continue reading