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Post by Rubyrocks loves Her Pony on May 6, 2012 7:17:06 GMT -5
(it's fine, don't worry)
Lucy listened to Carrie, I wanted to do everything right. "Ok. It won't hurt her will it?" I asked cause if it did i would refuse to use it. I took the whip from Carrie and held it in my hand firmly waiting for a reply on the question, but I sort of had the feeling that it wouldn't hurt Cupcake otherwise Carrie wouldn't use it. "Ok" I said said listening to Carrie. Lucy also took the halter from Carrie and walked over the Cupcake with confidence. "Good girl" I said with confidence to Cupcake as I patted her. I unclipped the lunge rope from the halter she had on, I then patted her again. "Stand" I commanded to make she stood still as I took the halter she was wearing off. As I slipped the halter off Cupcake stood still, still in her square halt. I then patted her and slipped the halter Carrie had gave me on gently. I patted her and Cupcake nickered softly.
Lucy lent down and picked up the lunge rope and clipped it back on to the halter. I still left the lunge rope on the floor. I spoke gently to Cupcake. "Stand" I commanded as I walked over to the fence and put the halter there. I walked back to the center of the ring and picked up the lunging rope and the handy stick once more. Lucy nodded and listened to Carrie intently concentrating hard. I then commanded Cupcake to walk forward and she did as I asked. I placed the handy stick down beside like Carrie had asked. I was having a lot of fun with Carrie and Cupcake. Everything was going really well. As Cupcake was walking forward I looked over to Carrie and smiled.
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Post by KM loves MUSIC and PEANUT!!!! on May 6, 2012 7:44:26 GMT -5
Carrie smiled and said. "No it won't hurt her, their just firmer and heaver so that they don't whip around so much and hit the horse." He smiled watching Lucy and then went to Dream once Dream was on her lead Carrie said to Lucy. "Now I want you to stop her and ask to come to you by petting the lead rope, try to get her in my only doing that with only lightly tugging on the rope, try not to use any voice cues except for clucking."
"After she is in hold the lead four feet from the clip and then stand like I am at a 45 degree angle this is the safest place you can be. Because its to far to the side for the horse to strike you and to far in front to get jumped on." She said standing at an angle to the horses shoulder where if she reached out her hand she could touch the filly head, after she showed Lucy that she added. "Now if your on the left side of her horse like me, put your left hand up next to the horses jaw about a foot away, this is in case they try to run over you, they will bump into your and get back. Now your not hitting them by any means your not doing anything, you are just holding your hand there and they bump into it and if they do that and your hands not there then you could get jumped on." She said trying explain it, "think of it like this. "If you try to run me over your gonna run into mrs. palmer." That is how the actual trainer who teaches this says it."
"Next take your right hand and get about a foot of rope like so." She said only letting about a foot of rope hang loose out of her right hand. "Let me know when your ready." She said.
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Post by Rubyrocks loves Her Pony on May 6, 2012 8:20:00 GMT -5
Lucy nodded and listened. "Ok" I said still listening intently to Carrie. I did as Carrie said and commanded Cupcake to stop the right way and she stopped perfectly in a square halt, I was very pleased with that. I obeyed Carrie's rule of not using my voice and i didn't. I listened to Carrie and did what she told me to do. I petted the rope gently then gave a gently and small light tug on it and Cupcake commanded straight away and walked towards me. I collected up the lunge rope as she did. Lucy listened to Carrie and did the next part of what she asked. I held the lead rope four feet from the clip and then stood like Carrie at a 45 degree angle. I felt more confident after Carrie told me the i couldn't get kicked. I listened to Carrie next instructions carefully and then did them. I put my left hand up to Cupcake's jaw carefully, I knew Cupcake wouldn't bite me but i wanted to be carefully. I nodded and smiled to Carrie happily listening intently. I did the next part of the instructions from Carrie and I took my right hand and got a foot of the rope. I smiled and nodded to Carrie. "I'm ready!" I explained happily, It was so much fun!
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Post by KM loves MUSIC and PEANUT!!!! on May 6, 2012 18:40:06 GMT -5
Carrie smiled and looked back to Lucy. "Now this is called sacking well some call it that I call it desensitizing to stuff. Now watch what I do with Dream and copy but just remember Dream may react worse or better then Cupcake no horse is the same. But you would be surprised much this bother some horses." She said. She turned to Dream, the golden filly watching her, Carrie took the foot of rope and said. "Now I want you to go over her top like with the rope like I do, she doesn't care and doesn't move for 15 seconds or relaxes by dropping her head, sighing, blinking slowly, cocking her hind foot, or licking her lips, you stop and rub her withers." She said. She turned to her own filly and started to do what she has just explained, she flicked her rope at the filly's back and she lurched to the side, as Carrie followed and kept flicking the rope she said. "If she does move don't stop, keep following her, you see how Dream is looking away from me?" She asked and bumped her nose back. "When they do that bump back to you keep them turned so that you can run if you have to, you can run faster then she can side ways or backwards." She explained still bumping Dream's nose in and then bumped into her palm. "See if I hadn't had my up there she wouldn't struck me with her hoof and pushed me with her head." She said still following the filly, finally she stopped moving and held still and stood for 15 seconds and Carrie stopped and rubbed all over her back. "You see she wasn't relaxed but she was standing still and that means she is starting to think about, that's what you want your horse doing you don't want them using their reactive side of their brain." She said still rubbing the filly, giving her a chance to understand that stop means the rope goes away.
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Post by Rubyrocks loves Her Pony on May 9, 2012 11:56:29 GMT -5
Lucy listened intently to Carrie making sure she didn't miss anything. I didn't want anything to go wrong or make any mistakes. "Ok. I'm prepared for the reaction" I explained confidently. I listened to Carrie again and watched her, I then did it. Lucy flicked the rope at Cupcake, she did move just shivered, I looked surprised but kept concentrating. Cupcake stayed still for 15 seconds straight away, I was surprised but happy and extremely pleased with Cupcake. I relaxed and stopped and looked to Carrie. "Is it good that she didn't move, was it a bad or good reaction?" Lucy asked Carrie a little worried that something had gone wrong. "What next's then?" I said eager to get on and so much enjoying myself seriously happy to be working to Cupcake and Carrie.
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Post by KM loves MUSIC and PEANUT!!!! on May 12, 2012 22:49:18 GMT -5
Carrie smiled and nodded. "That was very good, but she did not relax so you will have to keep going back to that till you can pitch the rope over her without her even blinking, its all on a matter of gaining respect, if you don't have respect you can't have trust cause why would they trust you if they didn't respect you." She explained still rubbing Dream's withers and then moved back to her angle and looked to the girl. "As you go along you start lengthen out the lead and make sure you never pull or shorten the peace you are holding her head with, cause then you have a risk of pulling her on top of you everytime you pulled the rope off her back." She explained and went back to her own filly. "Just repeat what you did but with an extra foot added to what you were already tossing over her back."
Carrie looked back to Dream and got two feet of slack and started to toss it onto the filly's back again and this time Dream threw her head up and pulled Carrie around a little bit more but she never stopped moving her arm even if the rope wasn't touching her half the time, finally Dream slowed down and then finally held still and Carrie just stood there tossing the rope over her till she cocked her back foot and she instantly stopped and started rubbing her. She smiled patting the filly's neck, she was going to make an amazing saddle horse.
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Post by Rubyrocks loves Her Pony on May 18, 2012 13:39:55 GMT -5
Lucy nodded, was slightly annoyed that she had to do it again but she didn't mind. I did the excersize once again this time Cupcake did it properly and did relax afterwards. I did the excersize well and took the extra step carefully and finished and Cupcake did it well and properly this time and very nicely aswell. I smiled to Carrie. I praised Cupcake and patted her gently. "Was it ok?" I asked smiling to Carrie.
(your slightly confusing me but i'm managing)
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Post by KM loves MUSIC and PEANUT!!!! on May 18, 2012 18:01:27 GMT -5
Carrie patted Dream and nodded to her. "She did much better this
time." She said and then lengthened out her rope to its full ten
feet or nine was about the amount that went over the horses
back. Dream snorted and lunged to the side again, she ran
around a little bit dragging Carrie with her her, finally the filly
stopped moving and let her pitch the full length over her back,
Carrie stood doing this till the filly cocked her leg, lowered her
head and sighed and then tossed the rope over her back and
started to rub her. "Good girl." She said and then finally stepped
back and threw the rope over the fillys back, this bothered her but
she didn't move, so she kept throwing it till the filly relaxed. "Good
girl." She said rubbing the filly on the withers and then finally
turned to Lucy. "Even when you get them good on one side their
not gonna be the same on the other, a horse has two sides of his
brain, Righty and Lefty and each time you change sides your
training a new horse." She explained knowing not everyone
believed that. "The horse will not remember what you just did on
his right side when you move to his left side cause each eye only
records to a certain half of the brain, the left eye records to the
right brain and the right eye records to the left brain. So when
you train you are training two horses Righty and Lefty, now
evenutally they will merge and you will only have one horse." She
explained, she knew everyone needed this cause well you get a
horse to stand bombproof on his right side and then move to his
left odds are he was gonna flip if you didn't start over. "Now once
you get her okay with throwing the rope over her back then we
move on, but don't just jump to that or she will get upset, she
needs time to slowly figure this stuff out. Once she is okay with
her top line start throwing it around her legs." She said.
(sorry bout the double space my computer went weird.)
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Post by Rubyrocks loves Her Pony on May 19, 2012 7:45:24 GMT -5
Lucy listened and nodded and watched Carrie carefully. "Ok. I'll try the other side" I explained smiling and going round to the other side and doing the excersize once again. Cupcake didn't mind it that much this time, she seemed more comfortable. So did it correctly and relaxed at the end. "Good girl" I smiling and praised her. I listened to Carrie and did throw the whip around Cupcake's legs. Cupcake started to move away and didn't like this, I walked on with her. I kept doing it and she got better everytime and the last time i did it she stood perfectly still and was very relaxed and didn't think it was at all a bother. "Good girl" I praised her and patted her praising her.
(it's ok)
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Post by KM loves MUSIC and PEANUT!!!! on May 21, 2012 2:53:11 GMT -5
Carrie smiled and nodded to her. "Good, all this is very handy and the reason is it'll make calm when stuff flaps around her. The rope shows her that stuff going over her back won't hurt her and stuff touching her feet isn't bad." She said and then added. "The rope around her feet represent getting stuck in brambles and vines while riding and it over her back shows her that when were ready to saddle her that stuff going over it isn't bad or harmful to her. It also helps keep her not touchy about her feet." She said with a smile. "You cannot do to much of this, do it when you first go out and get her, do in between every other exercise you do, and do it to finish her off. This will always keep her relaxed cause she will learn that when that rope goes over her she is supposed to stand calmly." Carrie explained. "Now this isn't all there is to it, she needs a lot of work, you'd be surprised at the goofy things horses have when you really look. But once she gets to where you can just pitch the rope over her back, neck and legs when you first get her without having to slowly slack it then she is getting pretty good. She should make a beautiful saddle horse." She said with a smile. "After a little while more working with this we can move onto something a little more testing for the horses. I know some of this can seem boring but it all leads to some really fun stuff." She said with a grin.
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Post by Rubyrocks loves Her Pony on May 24, 2012 12:50:38 GMT -5
Lucy listened and it was now all coming together. "Ahh ok. So this is a very vital part of training to begin to make your horse bombproff" I explained but still listening carefully. I listened intntly to Carrie making sure everything Carrie went into my brain and I did what Carrie explained. "Ok. So this is a very good part of training, so they don't panic when something goes wrong or Cupcake gets in a bit of a mess!" I explained hoping that i'd got the right point of what Carrie had explained. I listened carefully to Carrie and smiled, she was explaining things very well, I understood her completely. She wasn't being to complicated which was nice so I understood. I noddd to Carrie and she explained about not doing the excersize to often. I nodded and smiled, I didn't mind doing the boring stuff if Cupcake turned into a great horse. "Ok. I hope Cupcake turns out nicely and everything goes well" I explained hopefully.
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Post by KM loves MUSIC and PEANUT!!!! on Jun 3, 2012 18:42:09 GMT -5
Carrie smiled and nodded. "Yes it is a very vital part of making a horse bombproof, cause even though Dream is old enough to be saddled as you could see how bad a rope bothered her, what do you think a saddle would have done?" She said with a smile, a saddle would have completely uncorked the poor filly. She nodded again, "Yes there are other parts of training that will make her only use the thinking side of her brain. That's what'll keep her from panicking teaching her to think not react." She explained and then added. "Remember that you can never do much of this, do it all the time, the more you do it the more the horse learns to be calm and quiet about stuff." She said lightly throwing over Dream again the filly fliched but held still, Carrie tossed the rope till she lowered her head and cocked her back foot. She stopped on rubbed her. "Good girl." She said and turned to Lucy. "That is another thing you have to know though the five signs of relaxes, blinking slowly, taking a deep breath, cocking a hide foot, lowering her head, loose lips. Now sometimes when they cock their foot their just tricking you so you have to watch the rest of their body." She said and then added, "After a little more of the rope we can start on backing out of your space."
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Post by Rubyrocks loves Her Pony on Jun 4, 2012 12:34:34 GMT -5
Lucy listened carefully. "Ok. That must be horrible for dream then" I said feeling horrible for dream, I hated the feeling of a horse in pain or hurt. Lucy took her mind of that and smiled to Carrie. "Ok, That's good. They'll stay calm then and just get out of the situation calmly!" I said smiling happily. I looked to Cupcake. She looked stunning and great, I patted her with hopefulness that everything would go right. Lucy nodded at Carrie's comment "I'll try to do it as much as I can. But... i'm not going to completely over do it and just do it and nothing else" I explained smiling. Lucy smiled and listened and then went on again concentrating on Cupcake. I started flicking the rope around Cupcake's feet, She moved and i followed and then she moved again and then i followed and then the next time she relaxed and lowered her head and starting blinking slowly. I smiled, So far everything was going ok.
I walked up to Cupcake and patted her. "Good girl" I explained and patted her in praise. I then prepared again and I did something different this time. I stood in position watching Cupcake carefully. I lightly flicked the rope over her back and Cupcake didn't creep to much. She moved away and I followed again I did it and she moved. I carried on again till she relaxed eventually and I smiled and Cupcake actually completely relaxed. I smiled and went to pat her. I then went back to position and Did it again. I smiled happily. I flicked the rope lightly and Cupcake was much calmer. She moved and I moved with her. I did it again and she relaxed completely. I smiled happily. "Good girl!" I said with such pleasure. I patted her and praised her loads.
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Post by KM loves MUSIC and PEANUT!!!! on Jun 6, 2012 7:43:16 GMT -5
Carrie smiled and watched Lucy and then said. "You seem to have a good grasp on this stuff, you can't over do this." She said with a smile and looked around and then at her watch, it was almost time to feed and take care of Rosie. "As she goes through this she'll learn to also be more respective." She smiled. She turned back to Dream and worked a little more on her before praising her and turning to Lucy. "Did you want to try working with the colt today?" She asked.
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Post by Rubyrocks loves Her Pony on Jun 6, 2012 9:09:49 GMT -5
Lucy smiled happily. "Thanks. Ok, so i'll do this as often as possible, I couldn't thank you enough for doing this so thanks so much" I explained to Carrie happily. Lucy smiled happily. "Ok so, what's the next the stage with Cupcake, or do I just keep doing this excersize till she stands for the first take, then it's the next stage" I question Carrie. I thought about Rolo, I knew he'd be a lot more difficult to train, "Yep. Lets do the Rolo if you don't mind. I'll just go and get him and put Cupcake back" I explained smiling to Carrie.
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Post by KM loves MUSIC and PEANUT!!!! on Jun 9, 2012 4:11:08 GMT -5
Carrie smiled and said. "No need to thank me, I like helping people better their relationship and build a bond with their horses." She smiled and patted dreams neck, she was gonna be a lot of work but not as much as Rosie, that mare was a little different in the head, immature in a way wasn't trained right the first time. She smiled and said, "She could start on the next stage now but I would like to see her little more relaxed with rope before moving onto anything else. Just to be safe." She said with a smile, Lucy's filly seemed pretty good but tomorrow after awhile of the rope would probably be better it was never good to rush horses, give them as much as they needed Carrie thought and said. "Never lose patience with young ones they don't understand what were asking yet so we push them and help them find the answer, that's what natural horsemanship is which is what we were doing today." She said and then nodded to Lucy. "Yeah you can go get him, she deserves a rest she did good, with the rope your not gonna get them perfect the first day its that repatriation that'll get it, but she did well." She said and patted Dream hopping to do a good job with her.
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Post by Rubyrocks loves Her Pony on Jun 9, 2012 15:03:06 GMT -5
~LUCY~
I smiled to Carrie. "That's so kind of you. Unlike some people who will do it but want money for it. But your not like that because your really kind and really nice" I explained to Carrie then turned at patted Cupcake happily. Lucy nodded and understood Carrie. I didn't want to rush Cupcake at all, I wanted to be on the safe side and make sure everything was done right and done well. When Carrie wanted to see the rope in other places i didn't really know where to do it. "Where else should I try it?Shall we try the other places tomorrow and give Cupcake a rest for today, I think she did well too!" I asked Carrie wondering where else I could do it and also extreamily pleased with how Cupcake went today. Lucy nodded on Carrie's next comment and nodded. "I don't to ever rush any of my horses. I want everything done properly so nothing goes wrong or she picks up bad habits or picks something up wrong than won't get of the habit doing it that way" I explained to Carrie they way I really wanted things to go and how I hoped they did go that way. I smiled to Carrie, "I'll be back in a minute, I'll just go and get Rolo and bring him out in his halter" I explained to Carrie then led Cupcake in. As I led her into the barn I smiled and patted her happily. I led her into her stable and shut the door behind us. I carefully slipped her halter of and gave her a carrot which she took gently out of my hand and munched at it. I then kissed her on the muzzle gently and she nickered friendly back to me. I walked out of the stable and hung the halter up just outside the stable door on the hook. I quickly went next door to Rolo's stable and went it and went over to Rolo and patted him. I slid the halter on gently and led him out of the stable back into the circular pen.
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Post by KM loves MUSIC and PEANUT!!!! on Jul 20, 2012 5:27:29 GMT -5
She smiled to the girl, "Oh I charge plenty believe me but I like to help people around my stable for free." She said with a smile, "We trainer want money cause we only have horses as a job and without getting paid we wouldn't be able to afford to be trainers, we would have to get other jobs and would have no time. That's why trainers charge money and most of them do free ones from time to time like I do." She explained, she wasn't lying she charged quiet a lot for her services but for the locals in this area she worked free.
Carrie smiled smiled and continued to stroke down the mares neck and smiled when Lucy reentered the ring. She looked over Rolo and smiled wondering how he would fair through this whole thing. "Okay well now that your back with him I would like you turn him loose, remove his halter." Carrie said and then turned and undid the knot on Dream's halter leaving her loose.
Carrie looked to Lucy, "We are gonna try round penning this will get any pushy wanting to lean on you habit out of them, it will teach them how to change direction when you ask and will help with their first ride." She explained and said, "What you will need for this is the handy stick I gave you with the string attached, that will keep you a little ways away so if you have to get after him you don't have to do a lot of running around after him." She explained and said, "Just do what I do with Dream but remember she is a very reactive filly so he will not react the same cause every horse is different."
She turned to Dream and pointed into the air, "Establish direction." When Dream didn't move Carrie started to twirl the end of her stick to get the mare to move, Dream moved her hind quarters but didn't do much else, so Carrie started to spin it in bigger harder circles and then tapped Dream's rear end with the string, she snorted and lunged out into a circle around Carrie. "Once their in the circle see if you can get them into a canter and keep that." She said pointing high and clucking and then twirled the stick again and Dream started to canter. "Be sure to give the point and cluck before you up the pressure and as soon as they give you what you want relieve all pressure, but keep your body language like you want her to move her feet, and never get in front of her drive line. Her drive line is behind her withers that is the gas pedal, if I were to get in front of that it would mean stop, yield, or change direction." She explained still driving Dream in a canter.
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Post by Rubyrocks loves Her Pony on Jul 22, 2012 5:24:27 GMT -5
Lucy
I smiled and listened to Carrie feeling very lucky and fortunate that Carrie wasn't going to charge because I went to the same stables as her. "That's really kind of you, thank you so much!" I explained happily to Carrie, It was really really kind of her. I listened to Carrie happily, I had a great Idea but I was going to think about to properly later and ask Carrie her opinion, But at the moment this time was for horses.
I listened to Carrie to start the training of Rolo. "Ummm.. ok" I said a little unsurely not paticularly trusting Rolo, I was all ears with eagle eyes watching Rolo and I let him loose out of his halter. I watched Rolo intensly but calmly so I didn't scare him because he thought I was scared and tense. I took a deep breath and relaxed, I knew this was what training a horse was all about. I saw Carrie look over to me and I looked back breifly and gave her a quick smile then checked back on Rolo to see what he was doing. He wasn't doing much all he was doing was standing in the sun half asleep. This made me chuckle slightly. I listened to Carrie carefully making sure I didn't miss a single word of what Carrie said, I was determind for nothing at all to go wrong. That's just the way I was and wanted it to be. "Ok, that's good" I explained then waited for Carrie to explain how to do this excersize. I heard that I needed the handy stick and picked it up from the side of the ring and then walked back to the centre holding it low and still. "Ok, I've got it, that's quite useful and a little easier to use" I explained smiling and listening to Carrie agan waiting for the next instuction. I nodded when Carrie spoke next. "Ok, hopefully he'll be quite reactive because he's quite lively. It's true, every horse is different, no horse can ever be exackly the same" I explained to Carrie wondering how Rolo would really react to this training, well all the training.
I watched Carrie and I had no idea what to do, I just watched Carrie very confused. "Umm.... Carrie, could you maybe explain it a little more simply to me. I don't quite understand" I explained to Carrie and watched her still with a confused face.
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Post by KM loves MUSIC and PEANUT!!!! on Jul 22, 2012 5:47:30 GMT -5
Dream snorted and slowed down and dropped to a walk. Carrie point, clucked and when the filly didn't move she spanked at her rear end with the string and she bolted back into a canter. Carrie never stopped using her body language to push the filly around and then answered Lucy without ever looking away from her horse. "All you do is first pick a direction. Left or right? Now you see how Dream is going left? If I want her to go faster I will point left, if she had her feet still I would point left then cluck, then spank after her if she didn't move. After you pick point high into the air like this." She said pointing to the left as high as she could with her left arm. "See how she has dropped back to a fast walk? Well she isn't speeding up when I point so I continue to point then cluck." She clucked, "She didn't move then either so I spank." She kept pointing and smacked the ground medium hard and the filly burst back into a canter. "Now some of these horse you have to after them and actualy smack'em on the butt. When their at a stand still just stand a little ways away from them and point and cluck. If he doesn't moves start to spank the ground, he still stays still tap him with the end of the rope with rythyem, one one thousand, two one thousand, three one thousand, four one thousand and then whack him with the rope. Once he moves pick your speed Trot or canter and make him keep it till you say different." She said still driving her filly around the round pen.
Dream snorted again and tried to stop and turn the other way. "If they try to turn without you saying so get after them." She said she started to whack the ground and push pressure till Dream turned and went left again. "As soon as they do what you want release pressure."
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Post by Rubyrocks loves Her Pony on Jul 23, 2012 4:13:29 GMT -5
Lucy
I listened intently, this seemed mean but I knew it wasn't and that It was just a way of training horses. It was slightly confusing but I was going to give it a try. "Ok, i'll give it a try" I explained then focused very hard on Rolo. When Rolo realized I was staring dead straight at him he stared back. I chuckled slightly then relaxed, I didn't want Rolo to be all tense.
I picked a direction, Rolo was going to go right. I pointed and Rolo did not move. I pointed left and then clucked and pointed and Rolo moved forward, I smiled happily. I knew I had to push Rolo forward into a canter and I remembered what I had to do. I then did the right action and pushed Rolo forward into a canter and he went forward nicely. I watched Rolo go round and waited for Carrie to give me my next instruction.
(Sorry I was a bit confused and didn't have much muse)
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Post by KM loves MUSIC and PEANUT!!!! on Aug 3, 2012 16:55:42 GMT -5
( Round Penning www.youtube.com/watch?v=smhs52fRAjs ) Carrie kept after Dream and then glanced at Lucy, she was doing good. As she drove Dream on she started to talk again. "Okay with round penning there are three steps. Step one establish direction, which is what we did. Step two establish change of direction to the inside, step three get a consistent change of direction to the inside. Let's change directions now." She said, as Dream went around Carrie stepped sideways. "I want you to act like you are making an L in the dirt what I just did there was the first part of the L, now after that start backing up clucking and drawing your horses attention to you as soon as they turn in to like that." She said as she clucked drawing in Dream and as soon as the filly turned in she ran back to the middle and started driving her. "Now once the start to change get back to the middle like your life depends on it and push them the other way. Don't be afraid to get after them with the string, cause wild horses kick each all the time without hurting one another, so popping them with a string isn't gonna hurt them." She explained spanking the ground after Dream.
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Post by Rubyrocks loves Her Pony on Aug 5, 2012 14:50:53 GMT -5
(Ok thank you KM)
Lucy
I listened to Carrie carefully, This was slightly confusing but I just needed to listen and try what Carrie was saying. "Ok, I'll give it a try" I explained sounding a little unsure, this seemed a cruel way to train them but I tried to put it aside and not think about it. I did as Carrie said and started the work. I started to make an L in the dirt carefully edging to Rolo. I back up and clicked to get Rolo's attention. He was ignoring me and I knew he was tacking the mickey and doing it on suppose, His ears were flickering back and forth listening and ignoring on suppose. I tried again and clicked continually until Rolo turned his head to look at me.
When Rolo did turn his head I did what Carrie had told me and got Rolo to turn by running him up but Rolo just kicked up and stood exactly where he was. I slap the ground hard with the rope making a noise making Rolo think twice about not listening. Rolo immediately spun and cantered round to the right way and then I ran straight back to the middle to keep driving Rolo on right. "OK, I've done it. Was it ok how I did it?" I asked Carrie not looking over to her because I needed to keep concentrating on Rolo just incase he tried anything.
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