Mom's Training of Short Storys Painted Sun
When tied at the hitching rail, he rears up repetitively. Noah did this also at first. Noah even did it in the cart at first. Lesson 1 began August 14.
8/14/08 Watch this stallion begin to learn patience.
8/16/08 I tied this impatient boy to the swing set yesterday and today! There is a change of patience in him. He stands without rearing and even allowed me to trim his feet today. I don't usually trim feet, but his heels were so long, that my appointment with the farrier seemed too far off. He was wonderful and his feet look much better.
| Nine days ago, Faith impaled herself on probably a stick in our front pasture. It probably happened in the early evening hours and we did not see it until the next morning. There is a 'golden hour' for stitches on the body, and I knew we had missed it. On the body, that hour is usually the first 8 hours after injury. If you wait longer than that to stitch something up, it rarely holds. Our vet re-cut the edges of the wound to make it fresh and stitched 3 layers down in her muscle. That tells you how deep it the cut was. It looked like she ran her shoulder into a branch and just kept running and digging it deeper and deeper into herself. Usually a cut like this that is missed will hold together for about a week and then break down and be a big open sore. We keep praying it will hold. Well, one week passed and it still is stitched tight. Pray with us? I would like it to hold. The flies would have a hay day if it popped open. |
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8/17/08 I have been walking Sequel on a halter and holding a long carriage whip as an extension of my arm. We walk around with me teaching him that Whoa means "stop." For you all who know Parelli, I am also teaching him the Parelli back up and to hind his hiney. These are all critical communications for him to understand in the beginning of our lessons. Everyday, we will review these until he is perfect at them.
8/18/08 After our donkey party (see movie here), I harnessed up Sequel and we ground drove for about 1.5 miles.
9/3/08 I have been ground driving
Sequel about 8 more times and then put him in a cart today. I am proud
of him. He was wonderful. I can't wait to develop his trot and
collection. Click here to see him
with the cart for the first time.
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