Lone Star Western Store

Lots of gift ideas for your consideration 🤠

It's small business Saturday, you all...

YES!!! We have wild rags!!!

Select Corral boots half off🤩

Special price on select Corral boots. Limited quantities and sizes.

Select Corral boots on sale 🤩.

We are still looking!

New cool "crocks" from Muck boots just arrived 🤩

Visit at Hemlock's Lone Star Western Store Pattie Flora bought the Lone Star Western Store off Gratiot Road in Hemlock in 2001.

We are so excited to announce this new partnership. Our very own rockstar Larry will be assisting Emily Voelker, LMSW with therapy sessions.

“SUDDENLY”

“My horse is suddenly girthy. I know you were just here recently, but can you come check my saddle?”

“The saddle you fit last month is suddenly sliding around. Something is wrong; I need you to come back out.”

When I get called out to assess a saddle I’ve seen recently that I know is a good fit, the FIRST question I ask is, “WHAT CHANGED?”

More often than not, a new “kinder” anatomic girth was purchased.

When a girth does not fit the horse’s shape, it gaps (usually between the front legs), and a couple things occur:
1. The gap REDUCES the surface area of the girth. Instead of being 9cm wide, the girth is now 3cm wide. This decreases the stability of the saddle, resulting in saddle slip.
2. The gap moves all the pressure to be focused in the small area it does touch, causing discomfort for the horse. If it gaps in front, the pressure is moved closer to the sensitive cartilage of the xiphoid process.

The vast majority of horses go well in a simple straight girth.

Don’t overcomplicate things.

FYI.....

Is it OK to trim a horse's whiskers? Equine behaviourist Justine Harrison advises - Your Horse Some riders believe the whiskers on a horse’s muzzle and around their eyes look untidy; others see their removal as cruel and unnecessary

Humans are linear thinkers. They are always looking to quantify, categorize, label and make black and white conclusions.

Horses live in a sensory world, outside of the world of words. To be good with horses, we can’t box up, categorize and label their thinking- we have to enter their experience. This is the only way to truly connect- everything else is making a human experience for a horse. Some get by, but many can’t be reached without the language being congruent.

Don’t make a human out of a horse - they can’t think, see or act like us. They are their own, beautiful, unique being- and we owe them the respect to understand as best we can how they perceive things.

Stop in soon!

All the essential western supplies sold at a store in Hemlock Lone Star Western Store, located off of Gratiot Road in Hemlock, has been owned by Pattie Flora since 2001.

Touch with intention

Feel your hand on the horse, and feel yourself
Don’t fuss, don’t tickle, don’t rearrange, don’t pick, don’t scratch, don’t correct, just feel -

Feel the inside of you carried to the inside of the horse

Be here- with this horse, right now
clear energy, not muddied by what you want, what the horse is doing, thoughts of something somewhere else

Your feel carried directly to the horse

Touch with intention is the highest discipline there is

Dive into it, and a deeper world of the horse opens up to you

Thanks to Nick Dolman Saddles for this gem!

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