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Did I Really Mean to Buy a Horse: What to Do When Your Horse Is Acting Like a Monster, and When (and How) to Call for Help

July 12, 2023 By

We’ve all heard the saying, “horses are a lot of work.” But if dealing with your horse’s attitude is taking up all of your time, energy, and money, it might be time to take a closer look at what’s going on.

Author Meredith Hill has spent over 30 years observing and learning about horses in a variety of settings. From high-stress show barns to local rescues, she strives to achieve what she calls a “working relationship” of mutual respect with every horse she works with.

Sharing her experiences and heart-warming stories about her own horses, Hill provides readers with a wealth of information, including:

How horses and their wild instincts evolved
How to determine if a horse is misbehaving or not feeling well
How to assess your horse’s behavior, including common behavioral issues
How to read your horse’s body language and facial expressions
How professionals can help us and our horses on the path to behaving well and demonstrating good manners

Whether you’re a new horse owner, a beginner to all things equine, or a seasoned equestrian who’s facing a new problem horse, Did I Really Mean to Buy a Horse? What to Do When Your Horse Is Acting Like a Monster, and When (and How) to Call for Help is the ultimate resource for understanding what your horse is trying to tell you. Communicating with a horse is learning a new language, as Ms. Hill points out, and learning to “speak horse” can take some patience and assistance.

Consider Did I Really Mean to Buy a Horse? What to Do When Your Horse Is Acting Like a Monster, and When (and How) to Call for Help if your horse has a bad reputation due to:

Cribbing
Weaving
Kicking
Biting
Spooking
Any of the endlessly creative bad habits horses can have

Combining Why Does My Horse Act Like This: Understanding Equine Behavior in your New Horse and The Well-Mannered Horse: Developing an Ideal Equine Buddy, this book offers page after page of advice, words of wisdom, and patient encouragement from professional horsewoman Meredith Hill. You’ll also find a plethora of resources to help you:

Find a trainer, veterinarian, farrier, or behaviorist to help you
Make good decisions regarding your horse’s behavior
Feel less intimidated and afraid of your horse’s attitude
Understand why your horse may be acting up or being rude
And ultimately, strengthen your relationship with your horse

Training horses isn’t for everyone, but Meredith Hill helps new riders and experienced equestrians alike learn more about their horse in Did I Really Mean to Buy a Horse? What to Do When Your Horse Is Acting Like a Monster, and When (and How) to Call for Help. $0.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Non Fiction Tagged With: all things equine, equestrian, horses, Non Fiction

A Dream Come True

April 1, 2022 By

She’s only ever had one dream: to become an international dressage star.

Her dream is about to come true as she’s spending a week at the Elite Equine Training Academy on the Mornington Peninsula, vying for selection on the international dressage team.

If only…

If only he hadn’t turned up. If only her horse had not sustained an injury on day one of the clinic. If only she’d never come to the dressage clinic.

She thought she’d put Kirk Gutenberg well and truly out of her mind after he broke her heart a few years ago. Turns out, she’s not over him at all.

And, he might have the solution to her problems. But can she trust him?

Find out how dreams do come true with determination, hard work, and love.

Sweet romance with lovable characters and horses. $4.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Hot Books, Romance Tagged With: #romance, dressage, horses

Sierra and Star

December 31, 2020 By

Sierra and Star is a beautifully illustrated children’s book for ages 6-8 years old.

Sierra is a little girl who loves horses more than anything in the world. She spends time at her neighbors riding their pony Stormy in the woods.

The day of her 8th birthday party she is surprised with the most amazing present.

This book is available on Kindle, Amazon and will soon also be on Audible. $4.00 on Kindle

Filed Under: Children's Books, Featured, Hot Books Tagged With: #childrensbooks #bedtimestories #kidsfavorite, horses, kindle books

Finding Freckles

August 17, 2020 By

Will Emma triumph over her bully and save the horse of her dreams?

Finding Freckles is a humor-filled adventure that is told through the voice of Emma Williams, an 11 year old South African who has big dreams, and even bigger obstacles to overcome in order to achieve them.

This book is an action-packed story that’s entertaining for horse lovers, middle school readers, and young adults alike. $0.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Children's Books, Featured Tagged With: childrensbooks, Friendship and Bullying, horses, kidsbooks, kindle books, Middlegrade reading

The Perils of Autumn

January 19, 2019 By eReader Nation

From the author of the riveting romantic fiction drama, Passions in Paris: Revelations of a Lost Diary, and the celebrated, 5-star award-winning romantic fiction drama, Willow’s Walk, comes the intense romantic drama, The Perils of Autumn.

This page-turner, set primarily in the early 1970s, centers on a young Kentucky woman, Autumn Leeves, born in 1946 to Abigail Leeves, an unwed mother who struggles to make ends meet. By 1970, Autumn graduates nursing school and is sent on assignment by the local hospital to care for the terminally-ill wife of middle-aged English equestrian master, Cyril Landon, owner of Landon Lawns Stables, a most successful thoroughbred racing stable located just outside Lexington, Kentucky in a posh community known as The Meadows.

Duff Taylor, world renown jockey who is tops in his field, lives full-time above the tack room at Landon Lawns and enjoys the many benefits it brings, but he also has a dark secret surrounding an unsolved racing incident from his past that he will go to any length to protect.

Autumn arrives in Landon Manor in time to be thrown into the fray and finds herself caught in the ongoing disruption that ensues.

Filed Under: Featured, In the Spotlight, Romance Tagged With: #romance, animals, book, ebook, fiction, horses, kindle, romanticdrama

Man & Horse: The Long Ride Across America

June 26, 2018 By eReader Nation

In 1974 John Egenes rode his young horse, Gizmo, across the United States. The book is a recollection, a memoir, and a look back at an America that no longer exists. It’s about a young man coming to terms with himself, and how a little Quarter Horse gelding showed him how to do that. Ride with them on a journey that could only be experienced step by step, mile by mile, with a view from between a horse’s ears. $0.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Biographies & Memoirs, Featured, Hot Books Tagged With: biographies, book, ebook, horses, kindle, memoirs

Free: The Horse Listener : “Inspired by True Life Events”

May 7, 2018 By eReader Nation

This book brings to life one man’s quest to fulfill his eternal love for the Arabian horse. Keeping that dream alive through heartbreak, triumph, defeat and perseverance; his dream is fulfilled creating a forever bond that will live throughout the eternities. A must-read book based on true life events giving all an understanding of the passion and kindred connections between horse, man, and the creator. It provides an easy to understand and proper way to approach the horse to develop a long-lasting partnership. This work is the next best thing for all horse enthusiasts, especially the ones who want to improve their abilities to truly and deeply connect with any horse on an entirely spiritual level. Free on Kindle.

Filed Under: Featured, Hot Books, Non Fiction Tagged With: animals, book, ebook, horses, kindle, Non Fiction

Selah’s Sweet Dream

May 17, 2016 By Editor

If you loved The Black Stallion; don’t miss this book. Full of action and sprinkled with love. This award-winning story is an “engaging read with plenty of suspenseful passages” (Kirkus). 4.9 Stars on Amazon. $0.99 on Kindle.

Filed Under: Children's Books, Featured, In the Spotlight, Religion & Spirituality Tagged With: action, book, ebook, horses, kindle, sports

Rebel With A Gun

June 14, 2014 By eReader Nation

He was fifteen when the Civil War started, nineteen when it ended. His parents were dead by then, their farm sold for the taxes. The girl he loved had married a boy he hated. Nothing seemed right.

So he headed for Texas with a disreputable old snake oil peddler and a beautiful blonde with a jealous husband and a dangerous secret that could get them all killed.

Even though he had ridden with Quantrill and Bloody Bill, he was not like the others. Many of them were not the only bushwhackers who flourished during the war. Men just like them had waved the Union flag and used it to cloak their crimes, and now that the fighting was over not all of them would be content to lay down their arms and return to their former pursuits. Some, like their southern counterparts, would become outlaws. Many on both sides had never been anything else, and for them the war had just been a continuation of a life of lawlessness and violence. Now they would use the unsettled conditions in the wake of the war to camouflage their activities.

Of course, many would go west, especially to Texas. For years men had been going to Texas who were wanted or not wanted in other states. There was a well-known saying— “Gone to Texas.” It usually applied to men who had gone there a jump ahead of the law.

Filed Under: Featured, Literature & Fiction Tagged With: cowboys, horses, western

Death in Black Holsters

May 16, 2014 By eReader Nation

They said Lorn Chambers packed death in his black holsters. But Chambers was a relic from the past, the last of the great gunfighters. All the others were dead or had hung up their guns, trying to change with the times. Chambers turned his back on the future and rode off into the western wasteland, looking for what was left of the past. What he found was some vicious killers from his own past. They had robbed and murdered his parents years before and planned to kill Chambers before he could kill them.

Warning: Reading a Van Holt western may make you want to get on a horse and hunt some bad guys down in the Old West. Of course, the easiest and most enjoyable way to do it is vicariously—by reading another Van Holt western.
Van Holt writes westerns the way they were meant to be written.

Filed Under: Featured, Literature & Fiction Tagged With: cowboys, horses, western

The Long Trail

May 16, 2014 By eReader Nation

The long trail means death in the Old West. But it’s a long and dangerous trail that Ben Russell must follow in his search for the men who murdered his father. Then it’s that other long trail for the killers when they go down before his blazing gun—the long trail to hell.
Van Holt’s hellbound gunslingers always send the bad guys where they belong. It just isn’t safe for them anywhere in the Old West anymore.

Of course, the gunsters and punksters of our own time will feel a lot safer when the government disarms their victims and those who might be able to protect them if they weren’t afraid they would get in more trouble than the perpetrators.

Filed Under: Featured, Literature & Fiction Tagged With: cowboys, horses, western