Indy-Bluebonnet Equine Humane Society

Indy is wearing a saddle while exercising! Building muscle!

Our obstacle course

Today’s the day where we all pack up, love on these horses, and say our goodbyes. Tomorrow we sometimes get too busy and forget. Love you Indy!! You’re an amazing horse and I wish you the best. 🥰😍

I had to move my travel trailer from the pasture the horses are in and they were ALL near the gate. So I dumped a 50 lb bag of feed (there’s 11 horses/donkeys/mule) to share and distract them away from the gate. Look at Indy, kinda sharing with 7 others. She has HERS, but will understand vicinity IF no one else is too close.

Fun with balloons!! 🎈🎈🎈 I never played with balloons before. Looks like she’s seen them before and didn’t care much what I did with them.

1st time actually finding something that really scared her. The mailbox isn’t scary, but the flapping broken door and the noise was not something she thought was worth sticking close to. She figured it out in a short timeframe. Get approved to adopt: https://www.bluebonnetequine.org/adoption-fostering-application-multipage/ Then email [email protected] your top 3 horses. Choices: https://bluebonnethorseexpo.com/blog/fall-2023-training-challenge-participating-horse-trainer-teams/

Indy does NOT care about curtain obstacles! Get approved to adopt: https://www.bluebonnetequine.org/adoption-fostering-application-multipage/ Then email [email protected] your top 3 horses. Choices: https://bluebonnethorseexpo.com/blog/fall-2023-training-challenge-participating-horse-trainer-teams/

Indy longing in the round pen on a 10ft lead rope. I do not do the best, but look who doesn’t pin her ears anymore AND moves out. Walk, trot, lope, stop, back, and turns. Loping she had difficulty not pulling the line, but I think it was more from her body physically needing to move that way to keep the lope. Once strength and condition returns, she should be able to move a little more freely in a circle. I’m not being a good handler. Not sure what my issue was today, but I left all the bad parts in. She wasn’t resentful for my ignorance. Get approved to adopt: https://www.bluebonnetequine.org/adoption-fostering-application-multipage/ Then email [email protected] your top 3 horses. Choices: https://bluebonnethorseexpo.com/blog/fall-2023-training-challenge-participating-horse-trainer-teams/

Vivian’s Equine Massage - https://viviansequinemassage.com Has an obstacle course that she has graciously allowed Bluebonnet horses competing in the challenge to come and play for free until the expo! Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful facility. She will also have a booth at the expo so share some heartfelt thanks for loving these horses!! ❤️💕 Indy maneuvers a backup obstacle with grace, until we both get distracted 😂🤦‍♀️. But she handles the boo-boo without a care in the world. She’s like, alright I step up higher then. 😆 Get approved to adopt: https://www.bluebonnetequine.org/adoption-fostering-application-multipage/ Then email [email protected] your top 3 horses. Choices: https://bluebonnethorseexpo.com/blog/fall-2023-training-challenge-participating-horse-trainer-teams/

INDY’S HEALING JOURNEY With a little less than 1 month before the challenge, I wanted to showcase how much she’s overcome physically and the plans leading up to the Expo. Indy came to me May 2024 and she had stiffness in her neck and a lump/buldge on the right side of her neck. We chose to take her to a vet to ensure we’re not going to cause pain pushing her with training. The vet performed a lameness exam and decided that neck X-ray is warranted and we also did one of the left stifle. When she turned too tight, it would create a locking stifle look. The results of both showed that Indy suffered trauma that was healed. Her stifle was fine, so the vet said probably the other physical scars just have built up scar tissue that could work itself out with care. Healed injuries, so the stiffness and scar tissue needs to be conditioned out of her over time and with bodywork. The x-ray was done of the left stifle, per the medical report, with no changes found. Neck x-ray showed osteoarthritis in C6-C7. So we began that part with Brassard Equine getting acupressure in June and then a week later with Kelly’s Equine Services getting a Masterson Method bodywork session. She also received a free PEMF/red light session with OdiLu Wellness. This seemed to give her some relief, but I still felt something more was needed. So we got Trinity Equine Services involved and she got some osteopathy (little like chiropractic, but not). This freed her up a lot. We went back to Brassard Equine for another bodywork session last week. She seems like we are making waves of improvement as she went from not being able to stand for the farrier without breaking up the hooves to doing each hoof without having to drop it once!! She also went from not wanting to lope or trot in the pasture, to doing so with enthusiasm!! Sept 9 we loaded back up to see Dr Cannon at Texas Equine for a 2nd check and coggins. We found that she needs more conditioning in her top line to help

I posted a video with this clip sped up 10x or something really fast back in August. I’d like to share the entire interaction. You can see she was a tad concerned, but I lead her onto the dock and she was alright with slight hesitation. Then we had an enjoyable time hanging out and eating treats. She was 1/4 mile from the other horses and while they hollered, she didn’t really care that she was alone. I love a horse that isn’t buddy sour. She has never acted buddy sour since she got here. She’s a special horse! If you’re interested: Email [email protected] with the top 3 horses you would like to adopt. Get approved to adopt a Bluebonnet horse: https://www.bluebonnetequine.org/adoption-fostering-application-multipage/ LIST OF CHALLENGE HORSES BY DIVISION: https://bluebonnethorseexpo.com/blog/fall-2023-training-challenge-participating-horse-trainer-teams/