Hey Guys!
Sorry it's been so long since I've posted, I just haven't been working with Valley, so I haven't had anything to post about. But today I finally worked with her!
I started with 'The Hula Hoop'. I take my handy stick and draw an imaginary circle around me, the radius of the handy stick when I stretch it out with my arm. If any part of her comes in the 'hula hoop', I gently tap that part of her with the handy stick in a rhythmic way (1,2,3,4), if she doesn't move, tap a little harder, counting 1,2,3,4, if she still doesn't move, tap even harder, ect.. until she moves, and gives me two eyes. She did pretty good with that, so I didn't do that for long.
Then I moved on to desensitizing to the lead rope. Valley did good on that, like she usually does. But once or twice she was running into me, so I pushed on her shoulder with my knee to get her to move, which she hates when I do that. She decided to do something about it. So, she kicked me. Her back left hoof hit me in the upper leg, and then hit my hip. But it didn't really hurt. I still got dirt on my leg where she kicked me. Lol.
Dad decided to take her from there. He lunged her, and backed her up for a bit, then gave her back to me. I walked her around in a few circles, and then lunged her for a few minutes, then finished desensitizing to the lead rope, and desensitized her to the handy stick and string.
I fed her (I fed Chloe before I started working with Valley), and let her and Chloe graze as usual. My dad and grandpa were in the pasture getting Bully (our bulls name) in our neighbors trailer, cause tomorrow he goes to the butcher. :( I'm attached to him, and I don't want him to go!! I'm the only one that thinks he's semi-nice. Everybody else thinks he's mean. :( He's only meanish when he wants food that someone has.
Anyways, well, I guess that's all, so... bye!
-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
1 comment:
Yeah. At least it didn't hurt!! Yup. She's got to learn her lesson!
I know! I don't want him to go!
I'm gonna post on this blog later, so come back to check it out!!
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