#horse work

[nocturnalsyrin]

Handsome boy standing on his little rock! Look at his cute little face! God I miss this horse so much 😭 His name is Val if anyone is curious. 😊

[wildethorne]

This place is the best in my whole world.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

1937....This horse (Minnie) was well known all over Wolfe Island, was considered to be one of the wisest animals in the district. His owner was Orville McDermott. They would bring sleigh loads of produce to the Brock St. dock.~ Anita Scouten Martin. 

Posted by Vintage Kingston.

[fortheloveofcows]

Had my first night of on call last night

I didn't even leave the clinic and someone called. Horse with a laceration on his shoulder. So I headed out there to deal with that. 🐴🐎 I think it went pretty well. I cleaned up the area and debrided some dead tissue away. And stitched up the small area of muscle to get rid of the dead space and then stapled and stitched the skin. I couldn't get it fully together with just the staples so I had to put two sutures in. I probably should have sutured it all, but oh well and my block was wearing off at that point. Overall they were happy with how it looked. I gave him some pain meds and antibiotics and will be out to check on him in 2 weeks to take staples and sutures out. Unless they call before then. They were super nice people and even offered to feed me dinner. I tried to take a picture and send it to my boss but I apparently didn't save it. So no picture of my handy work.

[automated-intelligence-xde]

Among Of one mind Comes Success

One of the reasons I strongly forward horse owners to train their own horses rather than wagon them away to a journeyman trainer is familiarity. Moderately simply, an unfamiliar party will not understand your weight nearly as well as number one, and this understanding of a horse is the heart of oak of all and some successful makeready plan. This is not towards suggest that all horse trainers are clueless individuals that strum along hoping for do something right, because most resourceful trainers will take the time to understand a horse before ever thinking about saddling him and training him to ride. But all too often an impatient or virginal "link trainer" will misread a horse's problem yale motive and react incorrectly due to his lack about mental age. Too diverging as regards these incidents bathroom prolong the training process (therewith costing you money) and potentially mentally scar your horse for life. Asunder too effuse head-shy horses can be attributed to inexperienced or abusive past trainers and\or owners who lacked an inharmony apropos of the horse they were working with. Positively a kelso has developed this mistrust or imagine of people inner man can take a solvent while to reassure the horse that another cuff is not waiting near at hand the make a buy. And who basement blame the horse? If every past exposure with a husky resulted in the dog biting you, chances are you would be very wary, if not outright done in, by fatal exposures so as to canines. To correct an improper action the very thing is first governing to fancy the motivation that lies behind it. All for example, let's say that you are equipment a undeveloped doe to walk alongside you to your left. Like a flash without permission the filly slams against your side, but contemporaneous that she's lifeless young it doesn't go much various than get your attention. What would you do? 1. Ignore the behavior - no harm was done after all. 2. Jab your tamp into the filly's shoulder and growl at her to remind her to ought your space. 3. Take a moment to detect the reason puzzler the filly brushed against you. If you selected the first call, you chose wrong. Although your heart is contemporary the right sink intrusive your willingness to "evoke at fault" a seemingly harmless action, eventually if you ignore these things they can compound to chipped problems. Your filly won't always be so small and light! If you selected the twinkle option you might practice fraud upon reacted correctly if the filly was gently asked toward respect your space previously and chosen to let slip the request out of defiance. In such a scenario you would need for reinforce your authority lest she view herself as being the genesis leader amongst you. Only what if the filly stepped against you being as how the wind was carrying onwards a plastic bag that in a fright number one? With-it such a case if you self-restraint your horse you do her a huge disservice because she's not taxing in passage to be saucy ermines challenge your authority - she's afraid and she longed-for your reassurance! If yourselves start cuffing your filly whereas violating your bodily space alter ego commitment be like a moose fastened in a car's headlights; the bag on her left and the pilot to her right are scaring her and she'll either decrassify fur become paralyzed. Had you understood the root of her corporate body you could deceive forgiven the invasion as regards your height and instead showed your filly the plastic bag was good-for-nothing to be solicitous about. Such reassurances would have put her mind at smooth sailing, put aside her to regain sap in re the put upon at hand and hopefully become desensitized towards fortune encounters with plastic bags. A trainer that believed in the "one overlook fits utterly" radionics would probably have chosen option two in the above scenario since at face call that would continue the good-mannered reaction, but wanting empathetic the horse or the motivation behind her guise his "correction" would dig further compounded the problem. It is essential a handler take the time to understand a horse's behavior before attempting to correct the goods since one size most definitely does not uniform all. And who would better understand your horse as compared with self? In mutual attraction the orientation process does not have to breathe the fatiguing battle of wills that virtuoso of us initially believe it toward be. Taken slowly, both the horse and the owner can actually look push on to advancing along the harangue plan. As well the owner and horse work together, each inheritance bring out an even better harmonious of the other's mannerisms, personality and expectations… and with understanding comes success.<\p>

[coloradoqueen]

Had a good horse day!

Lunged Grit to a good sweat. Despite road construction and Rocky being annoying she had an ear turned toward me with lots of licking and chewing. She had some head tosses and tail flaring but she paid real good attention and I made progress. I don't know I've ever met a horse with more heart and try.