TJtheBlindHorsesMom's Blog

After about 8 months of work, over the weekend I put online for the first time my new website, “Blind Horse Care, Training, and Riding”:

http://www.voicenet.com/~sstrauma/Blind_Horse_Care_Trai
ning_and_Riding.htm

When I adopted my blind horse TJ, I was unable to find much useful information on the Internet nor from experienced horse friends to help me prepare for his arrival at my farm. I literally went into his adoption as blind as TJ. All I knew was that TJ was counting on me, and I wasn’t going to let him down. Despite the lack of information, I resolved that I would find a way to make it work, and I did.

Since that time I decided that I didn’t want others to suffer from the same lack of information that I did, so I starting documenting everything I’d learned through my experiences with TJ. It’s my hope that by doing so, other blind horses will be able to find an adoptive home or keep their current home (many horse owners don’t keep their horses once they go blind).

If nothing else, maybe a bit of the veil of ignorance and prejudice will be lifted from the eyes of some who are far too quick to judge what the disabled are and are not capable of.