Equestrian Network Magazine


	This month a friend asked me, "How do you continue to have so many great articles each month in ENM and it remains free?" I am often asked that question. The best part of it is that in every issue we are able to offer so many great articles and this month is no exception. We have articles about the Carriage Club of America, the Rocky Mountain Horse breed, riding adventures in Patagonia, grooming your horse's face, creating a safe barn, scoring your boarding facility, an online program in equine management for teens, and Linda Parelli tells us a fabulous lesson she learned from her horses.

	This month Julie Goodnight communicates powerfully about how to understand pressure, Jerry Tindell teaches us to tack up and mount, and Baxter Black changes the name of March to "Mud." Also in this issue, Maria Belknap continues teaching us Spanish for the barn, Alexandra Eastman explains equine viral arteritis, Bob Smith describes Bilateral Heel lameness and Martha McNiel discusses honesty in the horse community.

	This month we also have the fabulous art of Randee Fox and Tamara Watson teaches us how to have a safe barn. And I bring a little humor to a serious subject in Cowboys versus Gangsters.

	I hope you enjoy this month's issue.

	Garry Stauber General Manager Equestrian Network Magazine

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	I just wanted to let you know I enjoyed your web site. I especially enjoyed the article on the Argentine Sierras. I hope to visit there someday! I also got a kick out of the article on Across the High Lonesome. I met the author at NFR in Las Vegas this past December and bought his book---like you I could not put it down. It is good to see it getting more attention.

	Keep up the good work! George

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	I'm thoroughly enjoying your online magazine - particularly your spotlight on Artists! Keep that up, please. Of course, great articles and easy to navigate website are big pluses.

	norma vela

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	I was sitting at work, waiting for the next project to come down the pipeline, so I decided to read the online magazine. I read your article about "Horses Giving and Receiving Love" for the second time, and just wanted to tell you that it just brings tears to my eyes, how wonderful you are in changing lives for all these people. The part about the kid bringing his family to meet 'his' horse really just makes me tear up with an overwhelming feeling of how proud he was of his horse, and of how his family is of him.

	Having 3 kids, who were/are not always perfect growing up, (whose are?) I can speak from experience in how the littlest accomplishments can mean so much to a mom.

	Barbara

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	Note: Last month we published a letter from Dr. George Bates that read �� Hey Geniuses, Just saw a column from your July issue under the heading "Veterinarian Medicine." It's sad that I have to be the one to inform would-be wordsmiths like you but "veterinarian" is a noun and "veterinary" is the adjective. So, stick with "veterinary medicine" and "veterinary hospital", etc. unless you enjoy looking like total rubes. George Bates, D.V.M.


	We received two emails regarding that letter from Dr. Bates.

	Dear Editor, Thank you for bringing to light such people in the world as Dr George Bates DVM. How wonderful that there are people in the world who are so self involved and self important that they feel they need to find the one mistake or flaw in an item. The painting with a slightly crooked hanging, the flower which droops a bit more than the others, the dog with one ear hanging lower than the other, the magazine with a typo. Thank goodness he is there to point out how stupid the rest of us are! If I am ever in Helena, Montana maybe I will stop by the Animal Center Veterinary Clinic so that he can tell me how my shoe laces are tied unevenly or my smile is a little crooked. But then again, he probably wouldn't have time to see me because he is too busy patting his own back for bringing the rubes of the world to the attention of others so no one notices that his head is up his own ass... Thank you editor! ~Sincerely, a rube...

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	Thank you very much for this wonderful and informative magazine. I read the rather rude comments from George Bates, D.V.M which I found to be very informative because now I know the name of a Veterinarian I would never go to.

	Sue Martin