Work: PM heat therapy/EVE grooming planned. Report: Nicely quiet. Improvement over last time [Caution Feral Horse]. Ramblings for the Day: Do you get points if you do the right thing for the wrong reason? Between regularly scheduled programming, weather, & a house crisis, I did not get to the barn for 3 days last week,Continue reading “The Virtues of Sloth”
Category Archives: Horse Behavior
Foto Friday: Signalment, Chestnuts, & Trichoglyphs
[Terms for the title & captions taken from a post on Horse Identification by Ed Kane, PhD, on the site dvm360.com.] Work: day off. Sewage tank issues. The joys of country living. Report: exhausted. Why is it so tiring to watch other people work? And to write checks? Ramblings for the Day:Linda Tellington-Jones propounds aContinue reading “Foto Friday: Signalment, Chestnuts, & Trichoglyphs”
Bad Hair Day
Work: day off. If he is going to give me ‘tude [Head Games, Me Next!] over brushing his face, at least now his forelock won’t get in the way. If we start showing before it grows out, I’ll be so happy that I won’t care if he looks like a renegade polo pony. Your biggestContinue reading “Bad Hair Day”
Me Next! Me Next!
Work: AM heat therapy/PM groom, no exercises. Report: During grooming, he objected to being brushed on the head. I overruled his objection. [Option A from Head Games]. I just about brushed the star off his forehead waiting for him discover that the brush did not harbor tiny predators. That was enough of an adventure inContinue reading “Me Next! Me Next!”
Point of 100 Meetings
Work: AM rain/PM heat therapy. Report: Instead of putting both heating pads on his back near the scar tissue, I put the second over his Bai Hui point. He got all soft-eyed, droopy-lipped, and sleepy. Ramblings: At least, he was sleepy right up to the point when he gave a whole body shake and theContinue reading “Point of 100 Meetings”
Here’s Your Ticket, Pack Your Bags
Work: day off. Report: I’m gonna be burning down a house. No worries, the conflagration less lyrical, more legal. The bag in question holds my turnout gear. Cute horse and fire anecdote: We were on a brushfire, which is a small, tame, domestic version of a woodland fire. Usually someone is burning trash and “leftContinue reading “Here’s Your Ticket, Pack Your Bags”
Changes for the Better?
Work: PM heat/EVE groom. Report: During a two-lap mare walk, Rodney spent the entire time outside. Mostly, he ate hay. As we hove into sight at the end of the second lap, he drifted on our direction and grazed. Neither hiding nor herd-bound would be the best result. Ramblings for the Day: In addition toContinue reading “Changes for the Better?”
Virtual Brush Box 