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Thursday, 19 March 2009
Me and Andy had such a wonderful time together on Tueseday :) It was one of those days where just everything went right and we both had a blast :) Recently iv been licking and chewing my way through the Liberty and Horse Behaviour Set and have been paying pretty close attention to the section on reading your horse, is he; Dominante, Confident, Unconfident, Right Brain, Catatonic. I thought i put my knowledge to the test and so decided that today's session would 99% be about the friendly game :) I started with haltering Andy-obviously, but i sat in the floor this time, just to make it more interesting- not a problem, as soon as sat down Andy's nose followed me as if to say "Ooh, any cookies down here, what you doooooooing?" i slipped the halter on, then off, then on then of again, and then back on :) All whilst sat on the floor :) Then..errm.. we started swinging the rope over him back, neck, bum and around his legs- not a problem. I backed him away a little and began swinging the rope over my head and he walked straight back over, not faized at all :) Andy was obviously feeling pretty confident, i thought we'd go for something a little more challenging for the both of us, i went and got my 22 ft line and looped it through the tyre and began to drag it behind me , with Andy following, absolutly not fussed, in fact he was near draggin his nose on the floor wanting to sniff it, which i let him :) Then we did the same with the big traffic cone we have, also not a problm for Andy Pany, again he kept trying to catch up with to investigate :) Through out our friendly game i constantly observed Andy body language and tried my harest to listen to what he was telling me, if he got unconfident (Hardly ;)) id retreat , id wait for him to lick his lips before moving on to the next thing, which is what i think made the most difference :) Then i tried banging on the stable with the carrot stick, at first Andy went all starry eyes and took a few steps back so i started walking away and began rubbing the stable instead, waited for a lick of the lips then started tapping again and before long any walked over and stood with me whilst i carried on banging away like a crazy lady :) What Andy has to put up with, aye lol I thought that was enough licking and chewing for the both of us so to put a great end to a great session, we spend the last 5 minuets or so UDT :) I sat on the floor again, very lazy me, and again Andy lowerd his head to get rubs and scratches :) i toyed with taking the halter on and off again, then just didnt bother putting it back on and he stood with me for ages :) Me, still sat of the floor and Andy's nose nearly in my lap, it was awsome :) For him to want to stay with me was such a blissfull feeling. THANKS PARELLI :) As if today couldnt get any better, today was the first time id ever loose schooled blaze, she's got the idea of circling without changing gait or direction so i thougt it would be fun, I havnt taught blaze any of the seven games but i was able to draw her in to me at the end- which was just pure awsomeness :):):):):)
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