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Cookie is getting more sound! Just waiting on the Ferrier to get through being sick and will get shoes on those front feet and I think she will be golden and I mean golden. #moresound #walkingbetter

Gibby taking in the big box! I’ve been walking him around the barn because there’s all kinds of unusual objects everywhere! We came across this rail car that they store feed in and I said well let’s go in here. All he had to do was take a step and put his nose on it and we left will play again tomorrow. Click treat! #nosethis #noseonthiscrazy #onefoot #nososcary #walkonin

Rode Gibby today! I’m finally getting my confidence back. Today was the first day I actually was up there and wasn’t afraid. I could feel my natural abilities begin to come back to me. Thank you Gibby and Crystal #notafraid #confidentagain #backinthesaddle

Happy! #happy #togetheragain

Side passing by the scary dog! It went really well. The lady that owns the dogs is really cool and we talked a long time and let Gibby just rest right there while she threw the ball for her dogs. He got to see more movement and hear more of their nails on the fence. #sidepassing #decompress #thinkaboutyourfeet #notsoscary

My flowing Gibby! We’ve been working and resting that area where the scary dogs are and every day it gets a little bit better. He actually met the owner today and we stood and talked at a nice critical distance to where he could just relax and get scratched and munch on the leaves and just taking the dogs. It went really really well. #sidepass #flowing #groundskillswithhorses

So much for being excited about Cookie’s new pasture. She got put out with a gelding that ran the sh*t out of her and kicked her now she has a hematoma and her right shoulder. I miss my former property where I had control. I’m so upset.#lame #hurthorse #bummer

Blue board time with Cookie! #blueboard #isometrics #stretching

Trying to crunch again!!!!!!! #crunches #matwork #movementismedicine #selfcarriage #propriozeptives

Cookie has healed up so well and I’m just slowly building her up. I use my little purple crop only to suggest where I want her to go or to throw some energy toward her when she gets too close to me. The farther away she is the more upright she is and not falling into the circle. I’ve had so much fun with her. And she’s getting more confident down where the dogs bark. In fact the neighbor came out and I got to have a chat with him about how the dogs scare us and scares the horses and he was very helpful! It pays to be neighborly. #workingout #healingjog

I’m just playing around. Cookie pulled a suspensory ligament a year and a half ago so I keep her pretty close by when I’m asking her to move out. We’re both getting some exercise. Gibby is in training and I’m taking over with my little girl. I can’t ride two horses right now. I just don’t have time I’m so busy dog training. And I really miss getting to work with her. We’re just playing. I just love being out with her as you can see by my smile. #outwithcookie

Find a video of me helping Cookie have a better association with this round pen. We’re going to be doing some remodeling but there’s some scary spots from the neighbor’s dogs hitting the fence behind us. So I’m just playing some fun games with her. If.I leave she follows and targets me even with high value treats on the tarp. When I realize she was following me I asked her to trot so that it became familiar and not just a fearful departure to come to me it was more cognitive than emotional is my take or what I was trying to accomplish. Bottom line my horse is safe with me and I’m delighted that she tells me so. We’re working on side passing and playing games and targeting and then going resting in that corner or rather close to that corner where that stimulus is scary. #itsagame #targetme #yoursafe