{"id":869,"date":"2008-04-05T23:32:22","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T04:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=869"},"modified":"2010-10-07T23:34:09","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T04:34:09","slug":"sue-how-do-you-do-after-being-with-nichole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/sue-how-do-you-do-after-being-with-nichole\/","title":{"rendered":"Sue – How Do You Do after being with Nichole?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took Sue home 4\/1\/08.\u00a0 She’s been with Nichole all this time.\u00a0 Our bond has slipped since Sue and I haven’t been together for quite a time.\u00a0 My job is to get her trust again.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I took her to a clinic today.\u00a0 It’s called a Liberty Clinic.\u00a0 It’s all about building a relationship and language so strong that your horse will sidepass, back, turn on the forequarters and hindquarters and circle around you and walk beside you…all while “loose”.\u00a0 They have no halter no lead rope.. I learned that this is something that Ray Hunt refers to as feel!\u00a0 What an ideal clinic to restart our partnership.<\/span><\/p>\n

Introductions were done and I explained that I had played with\u00a0my horse\u00a0a lot at Liberty since she was hard to catch.\u00a0 Jenny explained to the new people about Sue’s background.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

We had a round pen up and no one else volunteered to go in it.\u00a0 So Sue and I started the clinic out inside the round pen.\u00a0 Two people\/horses were supposed to be in the round pen.\u00a0 Jenny, the clinician, asked one of the participants why she didn’t go in there with Sue and I.\u00a0 She explained that it was SUE who would be scared.\u00a0 Jenny told her to go right on into the round pen.\u00a0 We did great.\u00a0\u00a0Sue and I\u00a0practiced all the tasks with a halter and rope, but I just draped the rope over Sue’s shoulders and did most of the tasks without.\u00a0 We hardly knew another horse was in the round pen with us.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another participant has had her new Morgan bay horse for two weeks.\u00a0 She and I ride together after work at night.\u00a0 Her former horse…also a bay Morgan, rode with us many an evening.\u00a0 A lot of the time, I was riding Sue.<\/span><\/p>\n

Near the end of the clinic, the participant with the bay Morgan and I went into the round pen.\u00a0 Our horses were “at liberty” and we did the tasks…sidepassing, backing, circling, turning, walking with the horse at our side.\u00a0 Everything was great.\u00a0 Neither horse ran off.\u00a0 Near the end,\u00a0both of us humans and horses were just standing in the round pen.\u00a0 My riding buddy sez to me, “Which horse of the nine is that?”.\u00a0 To me it sounded like she was asking who Sue was, so I decided I didn’t hear her correctly.\u00a0 “Huh”, I said.\u00a0 My riding buddy said, “WHICH OF\u00a0THE NINE IS THAT?”\u00a0 Then I decided she must be making a joke and I didn’t get it.\u00a0 “What do you mean,” I said.\u00a0 Now my friend was exasperated.\u00a0 She said, “What is that horse’s name?”\u00a0 I said, “This horse?”\u00a0 My friend is now almost to the eye rolling phase and thinking I have lost my brain.\u00a0 She said again, “Who is That?”\u00a0 I said, “You don’t know who this horse is?”\u00a0 She said, “No”.<\/span><\/p>\n

I said, This is SUE!\u00a0 My friend almost fainted.\u00a0 “NO!” She yelled.\u00a0 “That can’t be Sue.\u00a0 She is so calm.\u00a0 She’s not worried about other horses being close to her”\u00a0 I can’t see her brace when another horse comes close to her.”\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

“Good GAD!”\u00a0 I said, “You didn’t know this was Sue the entire clinic?”\u00a0 My riding buddy said “At first I thought she was Sue, but she acted so calm, I decided it couldn’t be.\u00a0 I thought you got another horse.”<\/span><\/p>\n

And so Sue’s story continues. Thank you Nichole Copple for riding Sue and helping to make her full recovery.<\/span><\/p>\n

Next report should be a riding report. The trail calls.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I took Sue home 4\/1\/08.\u00a0 She’s been with Nichole all this time.\u00a0 Our bond has slipped since Sue and I haven’t been together for quite a time.\u00a0 My job is to get her trust again.\u00a0 I took her to a clinic today.\u00a0 It’s called a Liberty Clinic.\u00a0 It’s all about building a relationship and language so strong that your horse will sidepass, back, turn on the forequarters and hindquarters and circle around you and walk beside you…all while “loose”.\u00a0 They have no halter no lead rope.. I learned that this…<\/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":[44],"tags":[4,19,45],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sue-how-do-you-do","tag-missouri-fox-trotter","tag-nichole-copple","tag-sue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","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=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":872,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}