Anna has spent the past ten years working professionally with horses, doing a variety of things from care and management to teaching riding lessons and directing summer camps. In 2018 she went from working year-round to only in the summers so she could attend college and in 2021 she graduated from the Carroll College anthrozoology program. During her senior year of college Anna did an independent study project on training a miniature horse for service tasks and comparing that experience to training a dog for service tasks. She used primarily positive reinforcement and LIMA-based methods for both species. At the end of the year she presented her project at Carroll’s Student Undergraduate Research Festival. Anna found out halfway through spring semester that the miniature horse she acquired for the project, Stella, was pregnant. Anna is training the foal using primarily positive reinforcement and LIMA-based methods and hopes to show how much can be done with horses using those methods instead of traditional training techniques. 

Anna decided to stay in Montana after graduating from Carroll. She plans to take a gap year to work with the foal and then apply for graduate school. When she isn’t out working with her horses Anna enjoys spending time with her dog and reading too many books.

Anna will usually chat with you over email when you send us a message. She is also available for private one-on-one horse training with an emphasis on clicker training and helping shy horses, and dog training with an emphasis on overly exuberant dogs.