September 18, 2014
Reinforced haltering, leading and picking up feet with Isis. She’s doing great and getting ready to go home soon!
September 17, 2014
Worked with Isis today. Finally had some time to detangle her mane. Doesn’t she look great. Also picked up all four of her feet. She could care less. I had started working with the front during her last training session and she remembered everything. She gave me absolutely no problem with her rear feet. Hope to get video of her in the next couple of days but here are a couple pictures.
September 11, 2014
Great training session for Isis this evening. We reviewed leading. She’s still a little to heavy on the line for my taste so we’ll keep working to improve that. We worked on picking up her front feet. She’s a little resistant but starting to understand what I want and not getting to worried once they are up. Worked on haltering. She could care less. She is no longer wearing her halter in her stall. She’s happy to stand there, let you walk up to her and give her scratches.
September 7, 2014
Great training session with Isis this afternoon. First we worked on leading. Boy that was an adventure for the first 15 minutes. She’d lean hard on the web halter and just stand against the pressure. Took quite a while to get a small try from her on each side but eventually we did and started to build on that. Slowly but surely she started to understand the concept of giving to the pressure rather than bracing against it. Once we had a reasonable grasp on the foundations of leading we moved on to fun stuff like scratches and carrots! She LOVES to have her neck scratched under her mane. I am out of detangler but I can’t wait to pick some up and start working on that mess! Its all knotted up like dread locks!! Finally, after her scratches, I switched her halter from a web one to rope halter…and then more scratches and carrots!! She’s leading well enough now that I don’t think she needs a drag line so, for now, she is just wearing her halter in her stall.
September 6, 2014
Worked with Isis for just a couple minutes today. If you stand outside her stall and pay attention to the other horses she’ll want to come out and bother you and divert your attention to scratching her on the neck and withers which she absolutely LOVES! If you go in her stall, she doesn’t freak out or run or snort like some will the first couple days but she does pretend you absolutely don’t exist. She won’t make eye contact or acknowledge you. Silly girl! For today I used scratches / bribery to attach the lead rope so she can drag that around for a couple days learning to give to pressure.
[iframe height=”360″ width=”640″ frameborder=”0″ src=”http://www.magisto.com/embed/YVUca1wOAT0gVhNhCzE”]September 5, 2014 – Arrival Day!
Always fun when new horses and burros come in! Here are some pictures!!
