Today, after I fed the Horses, I desensitized Valley to the lead rope. Then I took her over to the trailer, and walked inside. We stayed there for a bit, just getting her used to the trailer some more.
I took her away from the trailer, and sent her off to the left. She did so much better today! Even with Ranger running up behind her (he didn't get much of a chance to bark at her, cause I took the handy stick with the string on the end, and whacked the ground next to him, and he ran off. LOL).
She went around 2-3 times pretty well, then I let her stop and come to me. Then I sent her off in the same direction, and when she went for about one circle, I stepped in front of her head, slid my hand down the lead rope, and pulled it in the other direction. She did well on that side too, so after a few circles, I stopped her, and took her back to the trailer to rest.
She didn't make any attempt to get in, so I got a small handful of her food, and took it into the trailer like yesterday. She stretched as far as she could, but wouldn't make any attempt to get IN the trailer. But after a while she finally lifted a hoof, and set it on the trailer for about 1 second at the most (Lol). So I immediately gave her the food.
I was done working with her, so I took her halter and lead rope off, and she took of down to where Chloe was near the fence grazing. I put the handy stick and string, the halter, and the lead rope away, then went down to put the horses up. I put Chloe in first (guiding her by her mane), then, as soon as I put the lead rope around Valley's neck, she IMMEDIATELY bit me on my arm! I yelled (not too loud!!), "Valley NO!" She didn't have a halter on, but just a lead rope around her neck, and I wiggled it making her back up. By wiggling it, the clip hit my hand, and boy did that hurt twice as much as her bite did!!
-Sarah
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~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
3 comments:
Ouch! Horse bites... Not so much fun :/
Nope! I think that's the first 'succesful' bite she's had on me!!
lol
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