25 Ways to Make Your Horse Happy - Essential Skills and Unique Tools

Build a strong partnership and trust-filled connection between you and your horse through empathy, clarity, and true communication.

In 25 Ways to Make Your Horse Happy, expert trainer Anne Krüger-Degener presents a transformative guide to building or restoring the bond between horse and human. Grounded in compassion, this book offers a systematic approach to a clear and unambiguous communication.

Through inspirational case studies, Krüger-Degener outlines her groundbreaking HarmoniLogie® communication system and offers a practical guide to foster happiness in both horse and human. Stop “talking past” your horse and instead prioritize compromise. Inside, you’ll learn to:

• Analyze spatial changes and movement cues
• Work with activation and defense zones
• Recognize geometric patterns in communication
• Resist the urge to speak “gibberish”
• Translate groundwork trust into saddle performance
• Create training intervals that accommodate natural performance curves
• And much more!

With sensible advice that still puts the horse first, above all, Krüger-Degener’s fundamental keys to making your horse happy are integral pieces to modern-day training and competing, ensuring progress not only as performers, whatever your sport, but as partners in life.