Yes, I have yet to figure out why they call it a coffin bone LOL. And yes, it's a really nasty illness and unfortunately, a lot of people miss it or catch on too late as it can take months or even years to develop into something incurable. Personally, I thought she already had it quite badly, but we seemed to have caught it in time and she's doing great now.

I had to learn a lot since I started on the radical unschooling journey, and am still learning, but I realized that treating each other with respect gets more done than anything else. Natural horsemanship is a beautiful thing. If you look it up on YouTube or something, you'll see how beautifully horses respond to their owners if they're treated respectfully. It first became more public with the movie 'The horse whisperer' and when I saw that, I was sold! I always knew there was a better way, I already didn't use spurs or whips with horses, and detested others for doing so. After reading books about it and doing a course on it, I learned so much about horse behaviour. All we need to do really is to understand them, and so much can be done from there without force.