Our Journey

This is a blog that I am posting updates about my bond and relationship with my two horses, Pinot and Oreo. 

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Oreo says “smile for the pictcha ma” i own the cutest pony ever and ur opinion is invalid

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People aren't thoughtless just to horses, they're also cruel to eachother

Black Beauty

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We don't get to choose the people in our life, for us it's all chance

Black Beauty

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Just watched Black Beauty and it totally confirmed the fact that I want Pinot to be happy and free. He's so beautiful and shouldn't be restricted.

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Oreo has such stallion behavior, and it was beginning to get uncontrollable. this was due to him being exposed to another stallion and mares, another reason i fucking hate my old barn.  they turned my sweet boy into a pony that my family is afraid of.  everyone i talked to about this told me i can't let him get away with anything.  i have to give him a good smack in the nose when he nips and a good whip in the ass when he rears.  i believed them, i didn't know,  these were people with years of horsemanship experience, i thought they knew best.  but that just made him so much worse.  he felt the need to constantly battle for dominance, and i was punishing him for just acting on his instincts.  he can't control the hormones raging inside him.  once i opened up and tried a much gentler approach of just praise and rewarding the good behavior, i finally started to get somewhere.  he's got much better manners than he did before, but we still have loads of work to do.  and now he's finally getting gelded, which will make the work so much easier.  i can't wait to prove people wrong, thats my favorite thing to do.  he will be perfect for kids, and everyone will be amazed at him.  mark my words. 

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New Beginnings

I went to look at a palomino on June 13th, 2012. When I went there, I wasn't experienced with horses except when I was little. I saw a beautiful palomino named Pinot, he ran away from me, and I wanted him. This "barn" seemed beautiful. There was 4 miniature horses and 3 horses. One by one, the horses left. 2 were sold. One passed away. And it's all gone down hill from there. Everything's broken and no one fixes it. The barn is small and dirty. There's one small paddock all of the horses share. There's no room to ride. I was prepared to sell my horses to new homes, because they deserved so much better than that. Everything close to me was so expensive. We were hopeless. And then when we stopped looking, a beautiful place fell upon us. It's closer, cheaper, and just brilliant. With jumping courses, to indoor rings, the the warm loving people that surrounded us. It's all happening so fast, and my baby boy is moving on Saturday next week. And I can't wait. I see so many possibilities for us both there. Our future is so bright now, together.

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I had such a nice day today with Pinot. We went for a nice little trail ride bareback and bitless. Pinot has never been on a trail ride before. I'm so beyond proud of him it's ridiculous. He was a little jittery and at times hard to handle but hey that made it interesting right! I now look at reasons behind small things like this, instead of just blaming him. He's trying to tell me something. Now looking back, i realized I could have been lighter on the reins. Even though he's in a hackamore, I think he wants complete freedom. He doesn't like being told what to do. Either that or he missed his barn buddies who I took him away from. Hopefully the liberty work in the spring will make him want to be with me instead of his barn buddies. I would love to start now, but I just don't have enough time to do it right and be consistent now. It needs to be a time where I can be 100% Pinot and focus on him. Today was just so much fun I loved it so much and I needed it. We rode all around the property. Couldn't have asked for a better valentines day with a better valentine♥️

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He's so cute I love him. Happy valentines day to the one I've been through it all with😊 going for a nice hack in the snow today with him. Bareback, in his hackamore. That's how he's happiest. And his happiness is my #1 concern. That will have to be all the freedom I can give him until summer. Please come faster so that I can start our liberty journey♥️ happy valentines day👌

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This is Oreo😊 he’s a 8hh black and white pinto miniature♥️ He is 1 year and 7 months old, we’ve been a team since he was 2 days old. I love him so much, and I’m so happy to announce that Oreo will be living in my backyard in 8 weeks, so I can see this little monster whenever I want😍💕 he is still a stallion and can be a little pushy, but I don’t have any time what so ever to give him the training he needs. So moving him to my house will make it so much easier to train him, at liberty♥️

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I've made this for kind of a record of my own, to write down my thoughts and process of training. Kind of like a journal. I've recently changed completely the way I view horses, and I'm excited to embark on our new journey. Now, with my friends. Instead of my partners. My two best friends are Pinot, who is pictured above, and my miniature Oreo. I'm going to seriously start their liberty training in the spring. But I would like to look back at these posts from then and learn from them. As I develop this training process, I thought it would be good to write down my thoughts. So here we go😊