{"id":7508,"date":"2021-08-27T23:40:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T04:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=7508"},"modified":"2021-08-29T14:22:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T19:22:09","slug":"prior-and-proper-performance-prevents-piss-poor-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/prior-and-proper-performance-prevents-piss-poor-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Prior and Proper Performance Prevents Piss Poor Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>This is a Pat Parelli sentence. \u00a0Understanding this very well, I prepared for Sweetie’s trailer loading to get to vet for her dentistry appt. \u00a0Fancy and Sweetie will be riding together, but Fancy is in training with Erin. \u00a0I took the first “prior and proper step. \u00a0I haltered Sweetie and led her out of her pasture. \u00a0Sweetie has one eye. \u00a0She lost one eye to cancer and also had an operation on her rear end to remove cancer<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Both were successful. \u00a0I do nothing with Sweetie except feed her. \u00a0I water her in freezing weather and when it’s very hot. \u00a0Otherwise. the horses drink out of a lake.<\/p>\n

I have not “handled” Sweetie for years. \u00a0I remember she was easily led into the trailer many years ago when we went to vet for operations. \u00a0Hmmm.<\/p>\n

I haltered Sweetie two days ago. \u00a0She is suspicious of a human in the stall with her. \u00a0I’ve learned to put feed in the three stalls and then halter her. \u00a0I have noticed this month that she is loosing weight. \u00a0Usually when she eats, she doesn’t lift her head. \u00a0She eats while her head is in the feed. \u00a0hmmm. \u00a0Now she eats and food falls out of her mouth. \u00a0Teeth!<\/p>\n

I “captured’ her and put the halter on. \u00a0I led her out of the barn to the trailer parked close to the barn. \u00a0I had a bucket of feed in the trailer. \u00a0I led her to trailer and walked in. \u00a0She followed me. \u00a0I stood with her while she ate the feed. \u00a0It was perfect. \u00a0Yesterday was the day before the appt. \u00a0Hmmm, \u00a0How am I going to get two horses in the trailer. \u00a0Should Sweetie go in first so she won’t be scared of Fancy…2nd in the herd command. \u00a0Yes! \u00a0I led Sweetie in with the food ready for her. Hmmm, the trailer metal ties are way too high for me to get the rope around them. \u00a0Hmmm. \u00a0I do have the escape trailer door with a clothe tie. \u00a0I tied Sweetie to the tie and tried to shut her in with the two horse trailer divide. \u00a0Well, that did not work. \u00a0Sweetie tried to escape. \u00a0Her head came around. \u00a0Her body was not in position. \u00a0I could not get her head back where it belongs in order to shut the divide bar. \u00a0Also she was tied and I could not reach the place to untie her. \u00a0I could net get her head back where I could easily untie the rope. \u00a0And, if I did untie the rope, she could easily run over me to escape from the trailer.<\/p>\n

Oh lord. \u00a0I decided to get out of the trailer and go to the “escape door”. \u00a0Thank goodness for the escape door. \u00a0I thought she might panic when I left her tied in the trailer and she could break a leg, neck etc. \u00a0Thank goodness, she did not panic that much. \u00a0I made it to the escape door, opened it and untied her.<\/p>\n

At this moment, she poked her head of of the escape door. \u00a0I remember the new trailer instruction stating that a horse can exit thru the escape door. \u00a0Her head was under the vertical tie. \u00a0Her head was out of the trailer. \u00a0There was no way I could get her head back into the trailer. \u00a0Sweetie escaped through the door. \u00a0Good Lord!<\/p>\n

Thankfully, She had a 22′ rope on her. \u00a0She sort of ran off, right to the trailer regular door where a horse is to go in and out. \u00a0There is still feed in the bucket. \u00a0The rope asked to her to load back into the trailer. \"\"<\/a>She loaded, \u00a0ate a few mouthfuls of feed, turned around and ran of the the correct exit trailer door. \u00a0We did this until the feed was gone, one mouthful at a time. \u00a0I tied her to the outside of the trailer and went to get another small amount of feed in the bucket. \u00a0Repeat, repeat and repeat. \u00a0I got a phone call, had to speak and put her back into her pasture.<\/p>\n

Today, I traveled to get Fancy from her training home. \u00a0OMG, the vet assistant called and said, come early, the appts are going fast. \u00a0I said sure, but didn’t know how trailer loading will go. \u00a0I decided to put Fancy in the trailer and close the trailer divider. \u00a0I would go home and try to get Sweetie in the trailer, by directing her in from the entrance. \u00a0I’m not going to lead her in. \u00a0There is no way I can close the trailer door before she runs out.<\/p>\n

I stood on the ground and directed her in. \u00a0I had the trailer door where I could get it closed somewhat quickly.<\/p>\n

Hells Bells. \u00a0Sweetie went right in…there was a feed bucket. \u00a0She went right in the first try and I got the door shut. \u00a0Praise God. \u00a0Praise the Horse World. \u00a0Praise whoever taught this horse to load. \u00a0She has been only a brood mare all her life. \u00a0She has never had a human of her own. \u00a0Before she and Delta came to my world, she never had a horse friend. \u00a0Delta and Sweetie are close friends. Fancy has managed to be dominate over \u00a0Sweetie, but there is no love, just herd behavior.<\/p>\n

Sweetie went to her dental appt. \u00a0Molars on both sides of her mouth were removed. \u00a0It didn’t take long. \u00a0They were ready to exit her mouth. \u00a0She is now on antibiotics. \u00a0She will still bleed for about 5 days, but she will be able to eat now. \u00a0Her life will extend. \u00a0She and Delta are both in their 20’s.<\/p>\n

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This is a Pat Parelli sentence. \u00a0Understanding this very well, I prepared for Sweetie’s trailer loading to get to vet for her dentistry appt. \u00a0Fancy and Sweetie will be riding together, but Fancy is in training with Erin. \u00a0I took the first “prior and proper step. \u00a0I haltered Sweetie and led her out of her pasture. \u00a0Sweetie has one eye. \u00a0She lost one eye to cancer and also had an operation on her rear end to remove cancer Both were successful. \u00a0I do nothing with Sweetie except feed her. \u00a0I…<\/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":[114,108,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fancy","category-parelli-2","category-sweetie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7508","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=7508"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7526,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7508\/revisions\/7526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}