Post by fantasykiger on Jul 2, 2011 11:18:53 GMT -5
I still get lessons from Fantasy from time to time and the other day I got another one.
"You better check yourself, before you wreck yourself" was my lesson.
I assumed sense she had been doing so well on our daily rides with others and alone, a quick evening ride would be no big deal. I fed early in the evening a snack, so she wouldn't be riding on an empty stomache. The ride started off fairly well. She went into a nice trot then tried an evasive move to spin around to home but didn't seem to notice her surroundings and took a header into a tree. That seemed to snap her attention back to me and we procceed forward with no problem. Then my neighbors recent change of landscape had her acting spooky, not like her. So I dismounted to work on some desensitizing exercises around spooky objects. Then proceeded to lead her on my way. After walking her for awahile she seemed to calm down I attempted mounted and she responded by trying to bolt out from under me. OK now this is a mare that knows how to stand perfectly still for me to mount and still until I say go. Fantasy used to provoke the emotion of fear into me, now she knows just what buttons to get me angry. She can feel I'm seriously getting mad I had not planned on a walk. I get her down off the hill I was on and start working on the ground when she is responding well we walk a few more yards nicely I attempt again to mount she tries again to bolt....oh yeah I am pissed. She is mad about being out. I start making her work harder circles (mind you all from the ground) she can see I am mad. She knows she has messed up, but she is not at the point where she is willing to give. Then before I know it the rope is out of my hands and the horse is down the road headed for home and I am walking anyway, without a horse.
She took a wrong turn and almost came back to me. I was able to get her to stop and stand still about 50 feet from me. But in glance she recalled where she was and the way home and was off. Had I checked myself not allowed my emotions to become so involved I know this whole event could have been avoided. Fantasy had she still pulled away would not have run away possibly had she not feared my wrath of emotions. She got a good work out back home anyway, after I counted to10 and without anger, then a hour tied to the tree in the arena to think about her choices.
Fantasy if nothing has been a very good teacher to me.
"You better check yourself, before you wreck yourself" was my lesson.
I assumed sense she had been doing so well on our daily rides with others and alone, a quick evening ride would be no big deal. I fed early in the evening a snack, so she wouldn't be riding on an empty stomache. The ride started off fairly well. She went into a nice trot then tried an evasive move to spin around to home but didn't seem to notice her surroundings and took a header into a tree. That seemed to snap her attention back to me and we procceed forward with no problem. Then my neighbors recent change of landscape had her acting spooky, not like her. So I dismounted to work on some desensitizing exercises around spooky objects. Then proceeded to lead her on my way. After walking her for awahile she seemed to calm down I attempted mounted and she responded by trying to bolt out from under me. OK now this is a mare that knows how to stand perfectly still for me to mount and still until I say go. Fantasy used to provoke the emotion of fear into me, now she knows just what buttons to get me angry. She can feel I'm seriously getting mad I had not planned on a walk. I get her down off the hill I was on and start working on the ground when she is responding well we walk a few more yards nicely I attempt again to mount she tries again to bolt....oh yeah I am pissed. She is mad about being out. I start making her work harder circles (mind you all from the ground) she can see I am mad. She knows she has messed up, but she is not at the point where she is willing to give. Then before I know it the rope is out of my hands and the horse is down the road headed for home and I am walking anyway, without a horse.
She took a wrong turn and almost came back to me. I was able to get her to stop and stand still about 50 feet from me. But in glance she recalled where she was and the way home and was off. Had I checked myself not allowed my emotions to become so involved I know this whole event could have been avoided. Fantasy had she still pulled away would not have run away possibly had she not feared my wrath of emotions. She got a good work out back home anyway, after I counted to10 and without anger, then a hour tied to the tree in the arena to think about her choices.
Fantasy if nothing has been a very good teacher to me.
