JR’s Journal- JR the Tall is a Guard Horse

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May 27, 2003  I was out in the pasture yesterday. The horses were across the lake. I walked way over there to see them and to trim some nasty saplings growing around the lake.The dogs came with me...as they always do. Cricket,our black dog, just got her 25lbs of hair removed in her yearly summer trim. She turned into a small short haired dog with a cute little bandana. JR saw me and started walking towards me to say HI. Then he started running to me. "WOW," I thought, "He's…

JR’s Journal – Susan’s Big Blank Duh Look

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JR and I were in a combined L2 and L3 clinic today doing just lovely. We do have a horse in the clinic that tends to get upset when another horse comes near him or touches him. I knew that from being in an earlier clinic with him...but I got too close. All of sudden we heard the squeal, the back up to kick, only we were too close. The horse whirled and then the head snaked at us. Ears pinned and teeth barred. The horse went in for the…

Velvet – Flying Lead Changes

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This is a post from the woman (me) who had given up on FLC as Velvet would never do them consistently...in 5 years. This is a post from the woman (me) who was shocked to discover that Velvet had passed the L2 Flying Change Lead task the other day while in a group lesson. Here's a another shocker:  I decided to work on the L3 task...counter canter. You must canter once around an arena or area in a counter canter. Velvet has been making great improvement in her ability to counter canter. Last…