I loaned Fancy to a good friend who lives in Mississippi. \u00a0Fancy is having a wonderful life with her. \u00a0She will stay till June when Beth will ride her in the Missouri Fox Trotter Spring Show.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, I have Tenor at home to ride. \u00a0When Fancy was home, I only wanted to ride her. I occasionally forced myself to ride Tenor, but not often. \u00a0Sharon took turns riding him and Sonny, but she loves Sonny the most. \u00a0Poor Tenor!<\/p>\n
A couple of days ago, I made the decision to start using Tenor to pass Level 4 Liberty and Level 4 Online. \u00a0Online is the hardest of all the Levels, so we are going to start with Liberty.<\/p>\n
I made a copy of the Mandatory Level Four Liberty tasks and so far have completed two Liberty days. \u00a0What a dream Tenor is. \u00a0This will get Tenor and I bonded and provide something for both of us to do, rather than me reading and him eating.<\/p>\n
Tenor has been trained to do Liberty Level 4. \u00a0His last had experience with his former owner a couple years ago with reading and following \u00a0the human body cues. \u00a0The previous owner and I have the same body cues, but of course there are some differences and heck, it’s been two years. \u00a0Tenor has just had the surprise revelation that I know how to speak body language to him! \u00a0On day two, he knows my language is serious and he put effort into running his circles today.<\/p>\n
I had to get the halter and rope on him, to give him the signal to stop running a circle. \u00a0My carrot stick and body language were not enough. \u00a0But with the halter and rope speaking to him, he understood.<\/p>\n
Tenor gets a lot of love and rubs when he is able to understand and obey my body language. \u00a0Of course he enjoys that a bunch. \u00a0I shut his partner, Sonny in the stall today so Sonny wouldn’t disappear and make Tenor worry. \u00a0He followed me back to the stall where both her and Tenor got treats. \u00a0Yesterday, Tenor almost followed me back to the stall from the round pen, but then he took off at a gallop to find Sonny.<\/p>\n
Here is the checklist and X’s for completion for Day Two<\/p>\n
Level Four \u201cLiberty\u201d – Open Area and Round Pen<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Friendly Game Checklist<\/b> Porcupine Game Checklist Driving Game Checklist YO YO Game (Backup and Come to) Checklist<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n o Transitions: halt to canter Circling Game Checklist Sideways Game Checklist Squeeze Game Checklist Seven Games at Liberty I loaned Fancy to a good friend who lives in Mississippi. \u00a0Fancy is having a wonderful life with her. \u00a0She will stay till June when Beth will ride her in the Missouri Fox Trotter Spring Show. In the meantime, I have Tenor at home to ride. \u00a0When Fancy was home, I only wanted to ride her. I occasionally forced myself to ride Tenor, but not often. \u00a0Sharon took turns riding him and Sonny, but she loves Sonny the most. \u00a0Poor Tenor! A couple of days ago, I made the decision…<\/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":[146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tenor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8078","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=8078"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8083,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8078\/revisions\/8083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/b>o Horse comes positively to you at trot or canter.
\nox Extreme Zone 4 and 5. (body and tail)<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/b>xo Lead backwards by tail, make turns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/b>o Exuberant draw.
\nxo Draw backwards from Zone 5 (tail)
\nox Close range 360\u00b0s.<\/p>\n
\no Transitions: walk to canter.
\nNote: \u00a0This is where we had to use the halter and rope for him to understand my transition requests.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/b>xx 10 \u2013 20 laps.
\no Change of direction at canter with flying change (left and right).
\nx Single spin slow.
\nx Circle close, walk or trot.
\no Change of direction at walk.
\no Backwards half a lap.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/b>x Sideways towards.
\nx Sideways from Zone 1 (Head)<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>o Trailer load at walk or trot.
\nx Stop halfway over barrel jump and Sideways Towards<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>o Games 4, 5, 6 and 7 with obstacles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"