JR and I were in a combined L2 and L3 clinic today doing just lovely.<\/p>\n
We do have a horse in the clinic that tends to get upset when another horse
\ncomes near him or touches him. I knew that from being in an earlier clinic
\nwith him…but I got too close.<\/p>\n
All of sudden we heard the squeal, the back up to kick, only we were too
\nclose. The horse whirled and then the head snaked at us. Ears pinned and
\nteeth barred. The horse went in for the big bite and back up.
\nIn a few hours after the dust settled, maybe in real time it was a
\nmillisecond, I saw that the horse had my reins in his mouth. He was pulling
\non my reins.<\/p>\n
I sat there with a dumbfounded look on my face. DUH! After a few more
\nhours which might have been millisecond #2, the other rider slapped her horse with her mecate and he dropped the rein.<\/p>\n
JR and I went running to JENNY! Jenny told me that when things go bad like
\nthat, get off the horse! You have no idea what is going to happen…and
\nanything could happen. My best bet would have been to quickly get off.<\/p>\n
I made my face go DUH again with a big blank look so everyone could see what a quick thinker I had been when danger started.<\/p>\n
A lesson learned.<\/p>\n
Why does this horse do this? It’s not because he is dominant and hates other
\nhorses. It’s because he’s scared of other horses and puts on this great act,
\nso no one will know it.<\/p>\n
During the rest of the clinic, we worked on those fears. First, we put him
\nnear other horses and when he snaked his head and started after a horse, he
\ngot to canter for a long time. He got to do flying lead changes. It took
\ntwo times before he settled down in a group of horses.<\/p>\n
Next, some of the riders with a treat in their pocket came over and fed him.
\nWow…that was a great surprise for him.<\/p>\n
Lastly, we stood next to him and petted him with a carrot stick. His whole
\nattitude had drastically changed when the clinic was over. Not to say that
\nhe was cured…but Jenny gave the owner some things to do at home to further work on this.<\/p>\n
whew..Ok, here it is again…The big Blank look with open mouth…Duh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[62,122,8,6],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jr","tag-jenny-vaught","tag-jr","tag-parelli","tag-susan-engle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1256,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions\/1256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}