{"id":7448,"date":"2021-08-03T21:42:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T02:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=7448"},"modified":"2021-08-27T22:54:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T03:54:58","slug":"fancy-ran-away-from-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/fancy-ran-away-from-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Fancy Ran Away from Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fancy had a group lesson yesterday in the low 80 degree heat. \u00a0She had to rest and run for an hour. \u00a0To get her to the group lesson, we have to travel about 40 minutes, including a dusty gravel road. \u00a0After the lesson was over, we had a short argument about her loading in the trailer. \u00a0One always wonders if they want to stay at the site or just what is going on in the horse brain.<\/p>\n

So today, why did my left brain extrovert run away from the barn when she heard me opening and closing the trailer door? \u00a0She ran into the far off part of the pasture. \u00a0She left her herd. Does she not want to spend another hour of running and rest group lesson with me? \u00a0Did she think she was going to get into the trailer and go for another group lesson.<\/p>\n

The answer is I’ve lost the bond, temporarily. \u00a0I have a plan for this evening. \u00a0I will trick her with food to catch her. \u00a0Then we will play online and at liberty in the round pen where she will be thanked and loved each time she does something I ask. \u00a0My thanks and release will be real. \u00a0My body will send nonverbal waves of love. \u00a0I’ll put the saddle on her and probably won’t ride. \u00a0I predict she will love me greatly by the time the sun goes down. \u00a0Stay tuned!<\/p>\n

Late afternoon. \u00a0I tricked her and got her halter on and we went into the round pen.<\/p>\n

Oh my! \u00a0We had quite a liberty session. \u00a0Ms. World Domination and me had quite a time. \u00a0I did a lot of loving, sitting, letting her stand still and get her breath. \u00a0We did a figure 8 online and then at liberty with her taking off at a canter during our attempts. \u00a0In the beginning, she stuck out her tail which meant she was upset. \u00a0She galloped around the round pen quite a while with a direction changes at my body language command. She galloped about a mile!<\/p>\n

Everyone now and then I got her to come into me and stop. \u00a0We rested. \u00a0It was so exciting I didn’t even notice her flying lead changes when she changed directions.<\/p>\n

I need to do this much more often. \u00a0Why she was so upset, I don’t know. \u00a0I’ll observe my body language next time instead of being in awe of how gorgeous she is at a full bore gallop and how to get the best change of direction. \u00a0She had a workout in the round pen.<\/p>\n

I did fool her and had put on her saddle. I needed \u00a0her to wear my phone to track her distance for the Tevis Cup Virtual Ride.<\/p>\n

The Parelli Level 4 Liberty audition contains a mandatory load into the trailer at liberty. \u00a0I have long berated myself at not spending the time with her to find the trailer as a sweet spot instead of shutting her in with feed before she would unload herself. \u00a0The unthinkable happened. \u00a0As we were playing at liberty, her herd mates left the barn and went to the other side of the pasture. \u00a0Perhaps this might have been why she was so upset during our liberty galloping. \u00a0And now I expected her to load into a trailer and stay inside while her herd mates were in the other side of the pasture. \u00a0This is unthinkable.<\/p>\n

I sat in my chair and proceeded to send her into the trailer. \u00a0She proceeded to immediately unload herself. \u00a0She got the rope around her leg and I let go of the rope. \u00a0I thought she might gallop out of the property trying to find her herd. \u00a0I managed to prevent that horrid happening and instead, she went into the barn where I was able to reattach myself to her rope. \u00a0Back to trailer loading. \u00a0Then she got her foot wrapped again. \u00a0I didn’t let go. \u00a0She put so much pressure on the rope that I was unable to get out of my chair. \u00a0At that time she was directly behind me, which kept me in the chair. I managed to get out of that situation and returned to trailer loading and unloading. \u00a0I thought I had won and she found her sweet spot when she stayed still in the trailer for nearly a thirty seconds. \u00a0Upon glancing into the trailer, I discovered a pile of manure. \u00a0Whoops! \u00a0This was not a sweet spot, but another kind of “unloading”.<\/p>\n

With about 25 more trailer unloadings, she never stayed facing the front where I had her feed. \u00a0But she turned around and did not unload herself. \u00a0I managed to get out of the chair and lead her out of the trailer. \u00a0I decided this was a good ending for the Queen of Drama. \u00a0I let her get inside the pasture with her staying a distance behind me and not eating grass, which takes a goodly amount of natural horsemanship knowledge. \u00a0It’s a good thing that I’m taking the time it takes and think we had an even draw maybe with me being on the 56% leader most of the time.<\/p>\n

Good Lordy. \u00a0I’m thankful to be trying to perform the Level 4 Liberty tasks! \u00a0It’s forcing me to develop this wondrous mare into the best possible partner!<\/p>\n

PS: \u00a0I no longer thing Fancy ran away from me. \u00a0She ran away from the herd leader, Delta.<\/p>\n

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