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Misty
6-29-10
15 minutes
evening
I began my routine by sitting with my equipment and doing stretches for my hamstrings and back (because I was at work all day and I was stiff) for 5 minutes. After that, I began playing the catching game with Misty, just unsticking her feet until she would follow me. Then, I began to teach her to put her head into the halter herself. I would approach her with the halter in position until she put her nose towards it, then I would pull away quick and give her a treat. This built slowly into her following me as I carried the halter in position, and then into her putting her head under my arm and her nose touching the halter. She was so skeptical, but the feel and the interest got so wonderful, that I decided to end it there, even though I did not even finish my routine. Hopefully, tomorrow will benefit from that decision.
My patience was high quality tonight, so good for me. I was very happy with my time with her.
Natural Horsewoman Out.
Natural horsemanship is a way of being with the horse, not a discipline of riding. It is much more than riding in itself. It is the human adapting to the ways of the prey animal to form a trusting relationship with a prey animal. There are so many resources out there, and this blog is my journey with horses as I set out on this conquest of knowledge.
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- I am a young horsewoman with a million things on my mind. I have been a student of the horse all my life. As a little girl, I had a desire to understand horses on deeper levels. I believed that there was no such thing as a bad horse, and I believed that all horses were beautiful. One might say that I was a naive child, but I guess I don't have an excuse anymore, because I still believe all of that, and Parelli Natural Horsemanship is helping expand on this perspective.
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