17/09/2022
We got an another week underfoot. I have to say over all we had a great week. We may have been mainly repetition and only got out of her pasture once but progress was shown and I get to see more and more of her personality.
Monday was a ruff day. We started off good but you can tell that it was not Hepburn’s day. We worked on our leading, being touched everywhere, yielding at the hip and picking up all four feet. She did good with everything only struggle a little with her back feet. But what really set us back was when we brought in the spray bottle. She did not like it so after some trials with it we had to give it a break and do something else and called it a day.
Tuesday was was a good day. We mainly just worked on the same things as the day before. She got the hang of hip yeilding I don’t have to use as much pressure as I did before. We also found out that we don’t like to be scolded. She has not been really aggressive or mean when working with her feet, though she has been unsure about her feet being messed with but not stupid. But today she showed more dislike to me messing with one of her hind foot, so I made her ingage her hind in. She picked up that I was getting upset with her, so after I corrected her she placed her head in my lap and then let me mess with her hind foot.
Thursday was a shorter day but still productive as we just worked with feet, hip yielding, and pressure and release. What made me really happy, when I went to catch her she actually walk towards me. It may have just been two steps but it ment that she was dropping her defensive wall. And when I released her she chose to follow me for a few yards.
Friday I decided to walk her out of her pasture. Though we may not have gone a long distance it was a different environment, we were also have other horses running up to the fence, other people working with horses. I took the chance to pick up her feet, walk around her and just had her stand still and settle. She did really well for the outside stimuli.
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Hope y’all have a good rest of your day.