HEART Spokane

Training For Best Practice 🐴

Training with different large animals is vital for HEART members.

It not only helps to ensure the safety of HEART’s member volunteers, but it also ensures that animals are handled and cared for well.

In January members attended a Horse Handling Training in which they learned correct haltering and how to lead horses. They learned that in stressful situations horses need to be led from danger in a confident manner by their handler. HEART members practiced putting different types of halters on horses and leading them with the correct leading rein hand positions, walking confidently toward a pre-determined destination and so transferring their own confidence to the horse.

The exercises took approximately 2 hours and were attended by a large number of HEART members.

Special thanks to Pleasant Valley Stable for the use of their facility.

HEART continues to invite new members. Information about becoming a member is available at: www.heartofspokane.org

It was a treat learning about these winged beauties.

Laura shared her knowledge on how to properly capture & handle exotics birds & her canary. We also had the pleasure of handling a Muscovy duck and a rooster.

Just a reminder: No meeting in December.

Enjoy the holidays 🦃 🎄 🪩