Showing posts with label Bad Attitude. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bad Attitude. Show all posts

Thursday, May 8, 2008

♣Bad♣ attitude

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
A canter is a cure for every evil.
~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

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

Names I Call Valley (in order of what I call her most)

  • Valley
  • Vales
  • Silly Goose

Our first day!!

Our first day!!
Adam, Valley, Me