Coyote Hills Equine Rescue and Therapeutic Riding, Inc.

12/17/2025

12/05/2025

One of the fastest ways to elevate the safety and quality of any lesson program is to shift from reactive decision-making to proactive thinking and planning.

Reactive instructors wait for something to go wrong before tightening up a policy, changing a piece of equipment, or rethinking how they teach a skill.

Proactive instructors ask the questions before the incident occurs:
🤔“Where is the weak spot in this setup?”
🤔“What could go wrong with this piece of equipment when it's used by a beginner student or a student who needs additional support.
🤔“What can I teach today that prevents a problem six months from now when advancing in this same skill?”

A proactive mindset can change everything.

It shows up in how we check tack, how we structure mounting and dismounting, how we train volunteers, how we choose adaptive equipment, how we progress skills, and how we layer on and off support.
It shows up in our willingness to say, “This works… but it could be safer, cleaner, or more effective.”

I've learned the hard way that you don’t get safer by betting something will "never happen to me" or for a big name organization to put a rule into place.
We get safer and become stronger instructors by being curious, questioning our what/hows/whys and polices, and tightening the gaps long before anyone else or a big organization says we need to.

The change from proactive to reactive....
Families feel it. Students feel it. Horses feel it.

Proactive instructors build programs where safety isn’t based on a run of good luck… it’s built into the culture, the teaching, the policies and procedures, and the equipment from the start.

That’s the standard our industry should expect.
That's the standard our students deserve.

To the instructors that want to stay reactive vs. being proactive because they think they and their horses are the exception to the rule...let's hope that horseshoe is stuck up there super well 😆

12/04/2025

Its Christmas time and what does Coyote Hills Equine Rescue and Therapeutic Riding horses want for Christmas? Each one of them would love to have a sponsor for the new year 2026. Coyote Hills Equine Rescue and Therapeutic Riding is a non-profit 501 c3 organization. Our sponsorship program is only $50.00 a month. Which will help us purchase feed each month for them. Your sponsorship is tax deductible . There are our therapeutic riding horses that service disabilities of all ages, veterans and their families, ladies retreats, at risk kids, scout programs. These horses also work in doing Equine Assisted Psychotherapy. If you would like to be in our 2026 sponsorship program. Please reach out to us. Ways you can pay with check or paypal. Come out and spend time with the horses throughout the year. A list of the horses with pics. The 4 minis will be all together as one horse. Merry Christmas !!

Prince

Gymson

Kite
Grace
Sweetflower
Cheyenne
Apache
Rocky

Macy
Cookie, Domino, Sugarfoot, Rodeo
Stormy, Egroe

09/26/2025

Our next live webinar is in 12 days! Join us on September 24th for “The Fundamentals of Equine Movement: Hippotherapy and Beyond” presented by AHA, Inc. Faculty Gina Taylor, MS, OT, HPCS. Geared towards licensed healthcare providers, therapy clinics, families, and community members interested in learning more about the use of hippotherapy as a treatment tool, participants will leave this course with a deeper understanding of equine movement as a tool, finding a qualified practitioner, and accessing next steps for continuing education in order to build proficiency in using equine movement within their services.

Use the link in our bio or visit our website to sign up today!

08/02/2025

Registration is now open for the 2025 PATH Intl. Conference! Happening November 7-9 in Denver, CO, register now to access top-tier education, earn CEUs and experience networking opportunities for equine-assisted services professionals. Register here: https://loom.ly/CTnZz_w.

07/30/2025

Thank you, to Amanda Harpole Snowden and family for the wonderful donation of 4 rounds bales of hay for the winter.

07/29/2025

Thank you to the folks who have donated towards our winter hay. This load had 50 square bales. We have 200 more square bales , 100 round bales, and 2000 lbs of Alfalfa and 12 bags of Safe Starch forage for the minis. If you would like to donate to help us reach our goal of $6419.00 you can donate to paypal. Www.paypal.com/paypalme/coyotehills