Fancy spent over a month in training with Erin Patterson while my husband was in hospital and nursing home. \u00a0Fancy expected a vacation homecoming. \u00a0Susan expected and got a compliant smooth gaited horse with great cantering, great stops, great leg yields etc. \u00a0Thank you Erin!<\/p>\n
Fancy suffered today from too much riding. \u00a0Instead of a home vacation, she was ridden. She wants a phone so she can call horse abuse hot line. I rode in an indoor arena, no fan. It was hot and stuffy in there. I rode outside at the stable. Here \u2018s where rules were broken: \u00a0I forgot about wearing spurs today, but they were not needed. \u00a0My boot heels and body language communicated perfectly.
\nWe went back inside and rode more. This is against the rule. We did more cantering. \u00a0When Fancy canters, I get a breeze. I dismounted finally and the rule is, I take off saddle and let her roll in that wonderful arena. Nope. I made her get into trailer wearing her saddle. Swear words!
\nI took her home, put on her bridle and rode her. Gawd. Never before has this happened. \u00a0NEVER! Also she had to go through road puddles filled with sharks. She had to back thru the puddles because she would not go forward through them (sharks). We left our property where there is a frightening patch of shade and more puddles. We had to back quite a ways before she agreed to move forward.
\nThe abusive day ended in a bath! Oh no!<\/p>\n
more abuse to come\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fancy spent over a month in training with Erin Patterson while my husband was in hospital and nursing home. \u00a0Fancy expected a vacation homecoming. \u00a0Susan expected and got a compliant smooth gaited horse with great cantering, great stops, great leg yields etc. \u00a0Thank you Erin! Fancy suffered today from too much riding. \u00a0Instead of a home vacation, she was ridden. She wants a phone so she can call horse abuse hot line. I rode in an indoor arena, no fan. It was hot and stuffy in there. I rode outside…<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801","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=7801"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7810,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801\/revisions\/7810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}