Daniel Dauphin and Jec discuss Equine Pain

stacy n. clarke

39 min

Parents' Classroom

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This is Episode 24 of Season 3 and in it, Jec interviews Daniel Dauphin of <a href="https://www.dauphinhorsemanship.com/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Dauphin Horsemanship</a>. He was also a 2022 <a href="https://www.besthorsepracticessummit.org/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Best Horse Practices Summit</a> presenter. It’s a great conversation, in part, because in their work Jec and Daniel are not seeing the same clients or the same horses. At all. Jec is in California and works with dressage and endurance riders. Daniel is in Louisiana and his students are mostly Western riders. They talk about pain – what it means to the horse and what it means to the horse owner. As it happens, I’ve written about pain and thought a lot about how we interpret or fail to interpret representations of pain in our animals. For generations, I feel like many owners did a pretty good job of ignoring signs of pain in their horses. Now, especially in quarters dominated by women, the trend is toward being overattentive around pain. Injections, supplements, even blankets and body massage appointments are all efforts to limit or avoid possible pain for our beloved equines. We can be guilty of killing horses with overcare, overkindness – that is, treating them with things when what they really need is movement and a herd, forage, and more movement. Both Daniel and Jec cite examples of horses’ problems being solved with more movement. Motion is lotion. <span style= "fon

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Daniel Dauphin and Jec discuss Equine Pain

stacy n. clarke

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