Not buddy sour anymore...
Aug 11, 2014 3:15:12 GMT
horselover4life, mistersmom, and 1 more like this
Post by hugs on Aug 11, 2014 3:15:12 GMT
Kinda 
I never thought this day would happen, and its been two weeks in a row so I know its true. Peaches will lead out from the other horses with nary any resistance, loose lead, good stop, perfect speed up/slow down, turn right and left and all the while going out further and further from the other horses. When I look over I can see her eyes get all wide and unblinking but we'll stop, I'll rub her neck or just tell her, "You're okay, you'll be fine, no worries" and then one blink and we're up and going again. That's the thing with an Appaloosa, is she staring from fear or is it just how her eyes are?!
Peach will go from resistance to fear in a split second, so I always have to be ready to change tactics with her, can't treat both mind sets the same or we'd never get anywhere in our training exercise
Gerald seems to think she doesn't like him. I don't know how to tell that but today after we were fly spraying her, Gerald offered to hold her while I asked her to lift her left front foot. In stead of asking for each foot in turn, I thought I'd just work on the one and get that easy. Something different just to be different. But my goodness, we were back to her being resistant again and I was getting pretty tired of being bent over like that. Then Gerald had to leave to go to something else, I draped the lead over the arm like I usually do and she finally gave me her foot. I dunno if it had anything to do with Gerald or she finally got tired of me asking
Another reason to work on just one foot, I've spent many hours over many days over many years working on this and my back and legs aren't getting any younger
But other than that, we had a good couple sessions this weekend until the sky dumped ice cold water down my back.
I never thought this day would happen, and its been two weeks in a row so I know its true. Peaches will lead out from the other horses with nary any resistance, loose lead, good stop, perfect speed up/slow down, turn right and left and all the while going out further and further from the other horses. When I look over I can see her eyes get all wide and unblinking but we'll stop, I'll rub her neck or just tell her, "You're okay, you'll be fine, no worries" and then one blink and we're up and going again. That's the thing with an Appaloosa, is she staring from fear or is it just how her eyes are?!
Peach will go from resistance to fear in a split second, so I always have to be ready to change tactics with her, can't treat both mind sets the same or we'd never get anywhere in our training exercise
Gerald seems to think she doesn't like him. I don't know how to tell that but today after we were fly spraying her, Gerald offered to hold her while I asked her to lift her left front foot. In stead of asking for each foot in turn, I thought I'd just work on the one and get that easy. Something different just to be different. But my goodness, we were back to her being resistant again and I was getting pretty tired of being bent over like that. Then Gerald had to leave to go to something else, I draped the lead over the arm like I usually do and she finally gave me her foot. I dunno if it had anything to do with Gerald or she finally got tired of me asking
Another reason to work on just one foot, I've spent many hours over many days over many years working on this and my back and legs aren't getting any younger But other than that, we had a good couple sessions this weekend until the sky dumped ice cold water down my back.
