A Rainy Night in Missouri. We got some big lightning and nice rain tonight.
That helped with the sadness of not being able to play with my girl, Sue tonight.
Every horse person resents the call of the home fire. Children, spouse, mother etc. seem to decrease your horse time. They deserve your time-darn it!
The spouse has been terribly sick with pneumonia and he’s getting better. He wanted real food tonight. He’s not been able to eat for two weeks. Am I to say NO, I want to play with my new horse…sigh
But, Sue and I did have interaction.
After getting horse treats at The Family Center (my time was not all without horse direction), we drove home in the pouring rain.
Sue was let out of the corral this morning. How would our first feeding go>
They came running. Well, JR and Isabell came running. Pretty soon the wet bay horse came into the corral too. Evidently, she is the low horse on the chain of command. She stood outside 2 year old Isabell’s stall watching her eat.
I took the bucket out of the stall and shook it. That was a sound she recognizes. She came over, stretched her head way out and ate a mouth full. I tuck the bucket into the stall, hung it up and left. Sue went over to stand outside Isabell’s stall.
I came back to the stall and got the bucket again. She came over and took another bite and then followed me into the stall. I hurridly hung up the bucket and left…no pressure is my name!
It wasn’t three minutes later that she was out of that stall and back to Isabell. (Isabell is a bay too- horses of the same color flock together.) I thought she didn’t eat much. I was wrong. She eats her food REALLY FAST! I got the first big treat bag open. I gave a treat to Isabell and JR. sort of yummy, they said. I went out into the corral and Sue did come up to get a treat. yucky, she said. (curse it, I said)
I got the next bag open. This is peppermint flavored good treat foot. JR got his first piece and told me he would leap the highest fence for another one. Isabell said, that’s better. I went out to the corral to give Sue her treat. She did finally eat one and liked it. I immediately retreated. She came back into the stall and ate some treats that I had put in her bucket.
Do I dare? I went over to her stall. She didn’t run. I held my hand out in the horseman handshake. She touched me! I petted her and immediately left.
A break thru for the Hard To Catch Horse.