Hey ya'll!! You'll never guess what this post is about!! Answer: VALLEY!! DUH! Anywhoo.... Today when I was taken Valley down to graze after I fed her, she pushed against me like she usually does. So I did what I usually do, and I turned her in several circles while pushing her farther away from me. When I was doing that, (she almost always does this) she tried to bite me. So...I lunged her. She HATES lunging. And, I don't like lunging her very much either with a regular leadrope, because their too short, and sometimes Valley kicks out at me (DANGEROUS!!!). But I kept my distance. She did almost perfect when I lunged her to the left. When she did a basically perfect circle or two, I turned her in the other direction, which she did not enjoy. She'd do pretty well until one spot, she'd slow down or pull back. So when she went around again, and came to that spot, I'd tell her to trot, which actually I think made her want to stop more. But finally I got her to go around in a good complete circle. So I signaled her to stop and come to me. Then I let her eat some more grass, and put her up. -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)
