Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Woo-hoo! 2 feet plus zone 3 in the trailer!

That's right, we worked on the trailer today, since I would like to trailer Pistol to Colorado in a month.  He put both front feet in and had his back feet right up to the step.  He started licking and chewing and did a big yawn and sigh, so I ended the session.  Go us!  I'm really hoping I can get him to Colorado, because otherwise, I would probably have a really hard time continuing with the working student opportunity.  I'm confident we will get it though.  Also, its been a really bad week for him medically, between the scratches on his sides, and then developing thrush in 2 hooves, and then whacking his head on the trailer door... Its been a rough week for him.  He's getting so sick of his medicines, every time I walk out with it he gives me the saddest hang-dog look like "do I have to...?" But he's been pretty good about it.  I can't wait for the scratches to heal up so I can spend lots of time brushing him again.  That was one of his favorite things before he got scratched up, and he's just dying for a really good top-to-bottom brushing.  Every time I even brush a little bit, he stretches out and looks at me with his parrot lips going "PLEASE????"  Poor guy.  At least things are looking up still.  :)

2 comments:

  1. Way to go! Are you excited to come to CO? It's great that you are working on trailer loading now because they have you work on that a lot at the courses.

    ~Gina
    Parelli Central

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  2. Thanks! YES, I am excited!!! I'm not actually taking a course now, I'm doing the working student opportunity. But... once I got my horse and found out he had never been trailered, I thought I had better start working on it immediately. I did NOT want to end up in an emergency situation and be unable to trailer him if needed.

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