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Grrrrrr...
Nov. 25th, 2002 09:47 amMy salt water tank is infected, not with just one pest but with two. Now everytime I look at my tank, I growl. GGGrrrrrr.
( the source of my anger )
In other news, we went up to the farm for the first time in two weeks. I took Apache out on the trails this time. Apache is a 3 year old appy whose only been ridden about two dozen times in his life. Luckily, he's completely relaxed about having the saddle and a rider. Could care less what you do as far as plopping things on his back and hopping on. He just doesn't like the bit. Really doesn't like it.
( Apache history )
Afterwards I lunged Sage with the chain again. He sulked about it the whole time but I'll be damned if I let that horse give me any more rope burns or pick up any more bad habits. Even with the chain, he kept kicking at me while out on the circle. Funny thing is, though, as dangerous as he acts out on the line, as soon as you put the whip up in the air and yell "come in", he comes trotting into the center and puts his head against you for pets.
Didn't ride Sage. I put the saddle on him and did ground work, including having him stand at the mounting block while I put weight in the stirrup. The ground was just too muddy for me to try the rodeo thing in the ring. Its bad enough out on the trails where, if you go down, you only hit the ground. Getting stuck between a horse and a fence is not fun(tm).
We had Sage's bridle hanging on the fencing and once I took the saddle off, he went running over to it and started chewing on it, like "hey, aren't we using this piece?!?!?!" I put the gear away while Boy put the bridle on, took it off, put it back on, took it off...you get the picture. Sage is so certain that the bit is a chew toy. You take the bridle off of him and he snatches at the bit. You can just give it to him and drop the whole leather set up and he'll hold it there and be perfectly content. I've never seen a horse so happy to have a bit in his mouth.
( the source of my anger )
In other news, we went up to the farm for the first time in two weeks. I took Apache out on the trails this time. Apache is a 3 year old appy whose only been ridden about two dozen times in his life. Luckily, he's completely relaxed about having the saddle and a rider. Could care less what you do as far as plopping things on his back and hopping on. He just doesn't like the bit. Really doesn't like it.
( Apache history )
Afterwards I lunged Sage with the chain again. He sulked about it the whole time but I'll be damned if I let that horse give me any more rope burns or pick up any more bad habits. Even with the chain, he kept kicking at me while out on the circle. Funny thing is, though, as dangerous as he acts out on the line, as soon as you put the whip up in the air and yell "come in", he comes trotting into the center and puts his head against you for pets.
Didn't ride Sage. I put the saddle on him and did ground work, including having him stand at the mounting block while I put weight in the stirrup. The ground was just too muddy for me to try the rodeo thing in the ring. Its bad enough out on the trails where, if you go down, you only hit the ground. Getting stuck between a horse and a fence is not fun(tm).
We had Sage's bridle hanging on the fencing and once I took the saddle off, he went running over to it and started chewing on it, like "hey, aren't we using this piece?!?!?!" I put the gear away while Boy put the bridle on, took it off, put it back on, took it off...you get the picture. Sage is so certain that the bit is a chew toy. You take the bridle off of him and he snatches at the bit. You can just give it to him and drop the whole leather set up and he'll hold it there and be perfectly content. I've never seen a horse so happy to have a bit in his mouth.
