What is it, after all, that draws us to horses in the first place? Yes, they are beautiful. And useful. But there is more than that: there is a spirit within, that we as humans have always recognized, and that we here at PFM seek to nourish, not 'break'.

Nature intended horses to be communal animals. Their survival in the wild depends upon ever evolving, close knit communities, with subtle, yet distinct communication skills: something sociologists have begun to recognize in the human animal as well. It's called Body Language.

And it's been heroically ignored by 'horse trainers' for centuries. We have mounted horses, burdened them, raced them, bred them, used them. The list of services which we have required of them is long, and all too often completely contrary to their instincts. Think 'battle horse', for example. Yet rarely have we understood them.

Here, at PFM, we do understand them. For more than twenty years we have learned from our horses as we worked with them. We don't call it natural horsemanship: there is nothing natural about some of the things we ask of a horse, starting with carrying a predator (yes, us) on its back, and often into situations it would prefer to ride out of. In fact we don't use catch phrases or buzz words at all. What we do is communicate, and that works two ways. That works.

Here we feel it is our responsibility to make the 'hostile' world understandable to the horse. Education. Once that's been accomplished, we then work with the human, helping the owner (or rider or handler) to understand how the horse perceives us.

Our perception is our reality. Horses' too.

We deal with any and all horses. A foal that needs handling, a stallion that's become unruly. A young horse that's ready to start 'training' or one that's "rideable but…".

We deal with any and all problems. A flighty animal. One that won't 'load' into the trailer. Stallions are only one of our specialties; re-education of horses that have been deemed dangerous, impossible, unreclaimable is another.

Whatever your chosen discipline, your horse will receive a solid foundation that will enable it to go on to any upper level of work or competition as a steady, eager, and willing participant. If you feel you and your horse aren't working well together-or simply could work better together-we can help.