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Equine Cultures are in Transition

Early June 2025 Friederike and I packed our bags to travel to Manchester for the 2025 edition of Equine Cultures in Transition Conference...

Maude Ouellette-Dube

Jun 284 min read

Wild Ponies, Plastic Bags, and Carrots

We walk over sandy ground and spot ants with large bodies moving in lines across the forest floor. They could be impressive, but all my...

Maude Ouellette-Dube

May 112 min read

Equines and tales of end-of-life

Last May, I had to jump on a plane to reach Montréal in time to spend some precious final moments with my grandfather. It had become...

Maude Ouellette-Dube

Jan 28 min read

Sharing a poem - "Horses"

Hello, I hope you are doing well. No intricate text for you today, I just wanted to share a poem from Pablo Neruda that I find especially...

Maude Ouellette-Dube

Feb 10, 20241 min read

Equine aesthetic, wild horses and rugged bodies

There is a story that I have been wanting to share with you for some time. But I did not find the time to write it. Or perhaps all that...

Maude Ouellette-Dube

Jan 18, 20247 min read

Children, horses and philosophy

"Children, from the ages of about three or four to about seven or eight, raise almost all the basic questions of philosophy in some form...

Maude Ouellette-Dube

Aug 24, 20233 min read

Should horses work?

Hello dear reader. Welcome to my blog. I am back after a long hiatus. That is the time it took for me to finish my doctoral thesis. Now...

Maude Ouellette-Dube

May 3, 20235 min read

Just sitting together

I once read in a horse book: "You could just sit with a horse and feel better." This sentence stuck with me. On the one hand, I found its...

Maude Ouellette-Dube

Apr 4, 20213 min read

Why is it always about riding?

When we do philosophy, we start with a question. That's our primary starting point. Although we'll try to formulate an answer, we'll...

Maude Ouellette-Dube

Sep 27, 20203 min read

Can we be friends with horses?

The question of friendship with horses is important for many people and has probably never been more popular today. A number of horse...

Maude Ouellette-Dube

Sep 14, 20203 min read

"At that time I could not at all understand what they meant by speaking of me as being a man's property. The words "my horse" applied to me, a live horse, seemed to me as strange as to say "my land," "my air," or "my water"." Tolstoy, Kholstomeer: The Story of a Horse

Equine Cultures are in Transition

Wild Ponies, Plastic Bags, and Carrots

Equines and tales of end-of-life

Sharing a poem - "Horses"

Equine aesthetic, wild horses and rugged bodies

Children, horses and philosophy

Should horses work?

Just sitting together

Why is it always about riding?

Can we be friends with horses?

"At that time I could not at all understand what they meant by speaking of *me* as being a man's property. The words "my horse" applied to me, a live horse, seemed to me as strange as to say "my land," "my air," or "my water"." Tolstoy, Kholstomeer: The Story of a Horse

Equine Cultures are in Transition

Wild Ponies, Plastic Bags, and Carrots

Equines and tales of end-of-life

"At that time I could not at all understand what they meant by speaking of me as being a man's property. The words "my horse" applied to me, a live horse, seemed to me as strange as to say "my land," "my air," or "my water"." Tolstoy, Kholstomeer: The Story of a Horse