Mule Crossing

For more than 15 years, Meredith Hodges has written a popular column about mules and donkeys called “Mule Crossing.” The column first appeared in The Brayer, the official publication of the American Donkey and Mule Society. It was later published internationally, in more than 25 publications.

This page contains links to several of Meredith’s articles and articles by other authors on a variety of subjects related to longears.

Trainers!
For those of you who plan to train or are currently training an animal, please be sure to read the articles under Training Mules and Donkeys, in particular, “How to Use the Video Series.” These cover the theory behind Meredith’s successful training techniques.

Submissions
If you’ve written an article or have an article about mules and/or donkeys that you’d like to post and have permission to do so, please click here to email it. Electronic submissions only.
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Lucky Three Ranch Published Articles
Date	Topic	Author(s)	View
5/1/10	Jasper’s Going to Bishop! Are You?	Helen Hertz
4/1/10	Where There’s a Mule, There’s a Way	Helen Hertz
2/1/10	Longears Teach Kids About Life	Helen Hertz
1/1/10	New Year’s Resolution: Be More Like a Mule	Helen Hertz
12/01/09	FFA Kids Find Adventure in Rural Life	Helen Hertz
11/01/09	Jasper Goes To Bishop Lights up Christmas Season	Helen Hertz
10/1/09	USDF Selects Mules as Breed of the Month	Helen Hertz
10/01/09	Longears: Equines Without Limits	Helen Hertz
9/01/09	Welcome to Mule School	Helen Hertz
8/24/09	Trainer to the Stars: Meredith Hodges Takes Athletic Conditioning to New Heights	Helen Hertz
8/01/09	Love Thy Neighbor	Helen Hertz
7/01/09	Whoa! A Trip to Bishop Makes One Rethink Goals	Helen Hertz
6/01/09	Rocky Mountain Select Miniature Donkey Sale to Host Meredith Hodges	Helen Hertz
5/01/09	Meredith Hodges Marks Calendar for Bishop Mule Days’ 40th	Helen Hertz
4/01/09	Meredith Hodges’s New Series Looks at Communication	Helen Hertz
3/01/09	Heartwarming Tale Holds Key to Training Success	Helen Hertz
2/01/09	Meredith Hodges’s Innovative New Series Equus Revisited Takes Training to New Heights on RFD-TV	Helen Hertz
1/01/09	Meredith Hodges looks at Athletic Conditioning with “Equus Revisited”	Helen Hertz
1/9/08	What's in a Web Site	Helen Hertz
11/30/07	The Spoonful of Sugar: Working Out with a Friend	Helen Hertz
11/15/07	Mules in Dressage	Helen Hertz
11/14/07	Mule Skinner with a Mission	Helen Hertz
9/5/07	Training Mules & Donkeys Looks at Athletic Conditioning	Helen Hertz
10/1/07	A Special Mule Memorialized in Bronze	Helen Hertz
5/10/05	Author and Artist Share a Love of Mules with Jasper: The Story of a Mule	Helen Hertz
7/3/06	Meredith Hodges and Lucky Three Ranch – A Living Legacy	Helen Hertz
	Jasper the Mule On the Move	Helen Hertz
1/05	“Jasper: the Story of a Mule,” Premieres on RFD-TV	Helen Hertz
1/05	Jasper the Mule Takes to the Air - Meredith Hodges brings “Jasper: The Story of a Mule” to RFD-TV	Helen Hertz
9/15/05	First Longears Sculpture Park Opens in Loveland, Colorado	Helen Hertz
1/3/07	Digging Out and Getting Ready at Lucky Three Ranch	Helen Hertz
3/3/06	Bishop Mule Days Hall of Fame Inducts Meredith Hodges’s Champion Mule, Lucky Three Mae Bea C.T., and Tennessee Mule Artist Bonnie Shields	Helen Hertz
9/20/06	Making Friends - Meredith Hodges Teaches Resistance-free Equine Training Techniques	Helen Hertz
4/2/07	Meredith Hodges Brings Mule Days to Millions	Helen Hertz
2/1/07	Meredith Hodges Answers Your Questions	Helen Hertz
10/11/06	Meredith Hodges Helps Hearts & Horses Acquire Two New Mules	Helen Hertz
8/15/07	Mule Expert Meredith Hodges Shares Her Passion	Helen Hertz
8/17/07	Meredith Hodges Goes Back to Basics in a New Way	Helen Hertz
9/17/07	Mules Have a Friend in Meredith Hodges	Helen Hertz
9/15/07	A New Masterpiece for Lucky Three Ranch	Helen Hertz
Mule Crossing Articles by Meredith Hodges
Date	Topic	Author(s)	View
4/07/07	Dancing With Mules	Meredith Hodges
4/07/07	Maybe Combined Training!	Meredith Hodges
3/15/07	Brave Little Girl Hopes to Ride Her Mule Again	Helen Hertz et al.
10/29/06	Meredith Helps Hearts & Horses Acquire Two New Mules	Helen Hertz
5/14/05	Hearts and Horses Speech	Meredith Hodges
1/26/04	Mules accepted by USEF in Dressage!	Meredith Hodges
10/6/03	A Miracle For Excalibur	Meredith Hodges
8/25/03	Repost - Little Jack Horner	Meredith Hodges
8/25/03	Repost - Jack Copp & Joker	Meredith Hodges
8/25/03	Repost - Mules of Molokai	Meredith Hodges
8/25/03	Repost - 1988 New Year's Rose Day Parade	Meredith Hodges
1/9/01	Neonatal Isoerythrolysis	Meredith Hodges
Longears Articles by Various Authors
Date	Topic	Author(s)	View
5/25/07	Toot & Jude: A Story of Longears Love	Sandy Dee
7/5/06	On a Different Note	Jim Patrick
9/26/05	The Latest From LSU	Stephanie L. Church
9/20/05	Saving the New Orleans Carriage Horses (UPDATE)	Stephanie L. Church
9/12/05	Saving the New Orleans Carriage Horses	Stephanie L. Church
5/14/05	Touched by an Angel (Related Story - Hearts and Horses)	The Brayer
5/14/05	10 Year Old wins Award (Related story - Hearts and Horses)	Mules and More
5/14/05	Choia's Story (Related Story - Hearts and Horses)	The Brayer
5/14/05	Primrose gets Artificial Leg (Related story - Hearts and Horses)	The Brayer
3/29/05	Prepared For A Crowd	Christine Duval-Sentry
6/10/03	U. of Idaho reports birth of cloned mule	Nicholas Gerianos
5/30/03	US researchers create first mule through cloning	www.yahoo.com
11/25/02	Morocco's Miracle Mule Confirmed!	Katty Kay - BBC
10/2/02	Morocco's Miracle Mule	Katty Kay - BBC
Training Mules and Donkeys
Date	Topic	Author(s)	View
3/7/05	How To Use The Video Series	Meredith Hodges
4/27/04	Behavior Modification Part II	Meredith Hodges
2/16/04	Keys To Successful Training	Meredith Hodges
10/9/02	Handling Mule Ears	Meredith Hodges
11/26/01	Behavior Modification	Helen Taylor
9/20/01	Ask Meredith - Violent Donkey	Meredith Hodges