Howdy ya'll!
Yesterday, Valley had a little attitude. She kept pulling on the lead rope, pushing against me, and trying to walk ahead of me. I flexed her a whole bunch of times, and made her go in circles before I let her eat her food. Her food was the reward.
Then, after she finished eating, I was brushing Chloe, and Valley was impatient. She was pawing the ground and walking back and forth. When Chloe went to eat grass, I put both horses bowls away, shortened Valleys lead rope that wast tied to a pole, and sat down. I waited there until she stopped moving around, and stood still. At first she walked back and forth as much as she could, and pawed the ground. But finally she calmed down, and stood still.
So I untied her and took her down to graze. She pulled on the lead rope, and pushed into me, and tried to get ahead of me basically the whole way down. I had to make her do quite a few circles. Then when she was grazing she kicked out at either a fly, or to hit me. If she was trying to hit me....she succeeded! It didn't hurt THAT bad, but I was tired of her attitude, and she didn't deserve to graze, so I put her back in the pasture, and it was hard, cause she gave me an innocent face with her ears pircked up, and head over fence. But, I didn't bring her back out that day.
-Sarah
Thursday, May 8, 2008
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A canter is a cure for every evil.
~Benjamin Disraeli
~Benjamin Disraeli
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
8 comments:
Yeah, I know the feeling! Misha will do something bad, then i'll have to punish her and she'll pull off the "inocent dog" act.
Im votin' No,on ur poll, but my friend did. twice. once in the face (i think...) and once in the arm. And my other friend got kicked around her elbow. I never had tho! I'm glad!!!
Yeah, it's really hard with dogs, cause they give you 'puppy eyes'.
Wow, in the FACE??!! Horrible. Yeah, lucky you. At least I didn't get kicked in the face, or hard!!
Sorry about the deleted comments, it posted 4 of the same comments of mine. *Rolls eyes*. I just got impatient, and clicked the button too many times.
She kicked you?!?! Man, she must have an additude...Daisy kicked me once, just below the knee, lightly because I was being dumb and not thinking and chasing her with a leadrope out of her stall....I don't do that anymore! Maybe next time she misbehaves like that or kicks you(which is misbehaving, lol) you can excersise her. That's what I do with Daisy-I walk her, or lounge her. Lounging works best...Valley must have been having a 'mare' day, or just excited about the weather or something...
I always seem to post the longest comments on your blog, I hope you don't mind! :D
Yeah, it was right above the knee. Luckily it wasn't very hard. Lately she's been moody. She's two, so idk if it's because she's in heat or not. It's probably cause I haven't been working with her lately.
Yeah, I usually do lungeing, but..idk why I didn't that time. When school lets out, I'm going to work with her a LOT. Especially if I want to ride her this Summer!
It's ok. Your giving me helpful advice! I don't really care how long your comment is!!
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