Somedays, you just have a good day! Sissy had a good day today...other than the cows....
When I caught her up and started saddling...the neighbors cows came up to the fence....really made Sissy nervous. It would do her some good to just stand tied and learn a little patience. But not until the shoes come off, if she starts pawing...she could pull a shoe off. Just something to work on in the future.
Today started with some basics, again. I said before that most horse training is pretty boring to the uninformed, it just looks like your doing the same thing over and over again...and you are! Horses like consistency, it means safety and as an added bonus...they learn well!
The basics include being able to yeild her front and back end from the ground. This translates well to the saddle because you now can use your leg cues (with the aid of a stick, if needed) to move these parts of the horses body. Once she got over the horse eating cows, we continued working on walking and trotting in small circles (forward motion being the key here), she has really improved on this. I also worked a little on flexing both laterally and vertically. She is quickly improving in this area!
I also started asking her (leg cues) to move her hind end over. I started walking her in a circle and gave her the leg cue to step over with her hind end, when she did not move..I used my stick as an aid, tapping her hind end until she moved her hind end over. I did this with the front end also, both directions...over and over again....
I was very pleased with her progress today!
When I caught her up and started saddling...the neighbors cows came up to the fence....really made Sissy nervous. It would do her some good to just stand tied and learn a little patience. But not until the shoes come off, if she starts pawing...she could pull a shoe off. Just something to work on in the future.
Today started with some basics, again. I said before that most horse training is pretty boring to the uninformed, it just looks like your doing the same thing over and over again...and you are! Horses like consistency, it means safety and as an added bonus...they learn well!
The basics include being able to yeild her front and back end from the ground. This translates well to the saddle because you now can use your leg cues (with the aid of a stick, if needed) to move these parts of the horses body. Once she got over the horse eating cows, we continued working on walking and trotting in small circles (forward motion being the key here), she has really improved on this. I also worked a little on flexing both laterally and vertically. She is quickly improving in this area!
I also started asking her (leg cues) to move her hind end over. I started walking her in a circle and gave her the leg cue to step over with her hind end, when she did not move..I used my stick as an aid, tapping her hind end until she moved her hind end over. I did this with the front end also, both directions...over and over again....
I was very pleased with her progress today!
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