Yesterday (Monday) instead of desensitizing and other stuff like that, I wanted to see what Valley would do if i put a saddle on her. So I got a saddle pad and put it on her while she was eating grass. I rubbed it on her back and neck, and she was fine.
So I got my old English Saddle (definitely not in its best condition) and put it on her back. I think she was curious on what I was putting on her back, but not for long. She just went back to eating her grass.
After walking her around with it on her back, I decided to get the girth and see what she would do if I put it on. So I went back to the shed, and got it. I put it on her very loose. She was fine. So I kept tightning it. One knotch at a time. Until it was almost as tight as if I was going to ride her. And she did fine! - but only cause she was eating grass. When I tried to tighten it when she was tied up, she didn't like it. But she was fine when she was eating. So when I ride her for the first time, I will get on while she's eating grass! LOL.
Love,
Sarah
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A canter is a cure for every evil.
~Benjamin Disraeli
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Valley Likes:
- Apples
- Attention
- Carrots
- Celery
- Company
- Grain
- Grass
- Having her ears scratched
- Hay
- Swimming across the lake to visit her horsey neighbors
- Wide open space to run and buck :)
No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. ~Winston Churchill
Valley Dislikes:
- being locked in the back pasture
- being away from my other horse, Mississippi
- being ridden
- Having to stand still
- anything I want her to do
- being ridden in a direction that is not towards the neighbors horses or the barn
- The 'Jolly Ball' I bought her. Lol
- Being tied up without food to eat
- Having her hoofs picked (although, she cooperates)
- lunging
- Taking worm medicene
In riding a horse we borrow freedom.
~Helen Thomson
~Helen Thomson
Things That Valley Does...
- bites sometimes..
- bucks
- swims through lake to get out of pasture to visit horsey neighbors
- chase my dog
- anythin to be stubborn. She likes being stubborn.
- Gallop and buck when I put her back in the pasture after she's been out for a while
- Licks my hands
- Tries to eat grass while I'm leading her
I bless the hoss from hoof to head -From head to hoof, and tale to mane! -I bless the hoss, as I have said,From head to hoof, and back again!
~James Whitcomb Riley
A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words. ~Beryl Markham
The horses paw and prance and neigh,Fillies and colts like kittens play,And dance and toss their rippled manesShining and soft as silken skeins;...~Oliver Wendell Holmes
~James Whitcomb Riley
A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words. ~Beryl Markham
The horses paw and prance and neigh,Fillies and colts like kittens play,And dance and toss their rippled manesShining and soft as silken skeins;...~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Names I Call Valley (in order of what I call her most)
- Valley
- Vales
- Silly Goose
Our first day!!
Adam, Valley, Me
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