We cannot ask them directly but they do let us know how they are feeling in different ways:

- Like people horses love a purpose and a routine. This is evident in our horses because when it comes the time that they usually go to work they stand by the tack room and wait for their harness to be put on.

- One can tell the expressions of a horse by watching their ear position. When our horses are working they have an alert and forward ear position which indicates general happiness.

- Draft horses have been used for so many generations to pull that it seems to be instinctual. When we first put a young one in a harness they naturally lean into the collar and pull on their own.

- Like people it's very important for horses to get exercise. so their work pulling sleighs makes their heart, lungs and muscles strong and healthy.