Bio of Janet Johns

Greetings, my name is Janet Johns. Life is a journey full of mysterious detours and partnerships that I could never have imagined even in my wildest dreams. I am one of those rare people that had never dreamed of owning or riding horses. Back in 2003, I became the naïve owner of a horse. My daughter was eight years old then and was desperate to have her own horse. We naively purchased Rocky as her first horse. Rocky immediately began to exhibit very dangerous and aggressive behavior toward humans. As a family, we agreed that owning a horse was a life long commitment and were committed to helping Rocky. I became a Parelli student and learned how to apply the principles of “Horsenality™” to overcome Rocky’s aggressive acts of dominance. Rocky is a very dominant Left Brained Introverted (LBI) Tennessee Walking Horse (TWH) with a natural drive to be the dominant member of every relationship.

This blog is the true story of our natural horsemanship journey and the horse – human partnership resulting from my unplanned detour into the world of natural horsemanship. Along the way, Rocky lost a lot of his angry emotional baggage and became a happy horse willing to form a horse – human partnership. Rocky is finally happy living the life of a horse with his human partner. This change has made all of my sweat and tears along the natural horsemanship detour worthwhile.