I love this video of Kye pushing the big ball. I believe he’s the first horse on our farm that has played with two of them.
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I love this video of Kye pushing the big ball. I believe he’s the first horse on our farm that has played with two of them.
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Our next fund-raiser is May 1, 2011 for Ann and Pete’s Dog Rescue in Pottageville.
Our current challenge is to create the program. “Men Doing Dressage” has been a hit for the past two years. Here’s a video taken last …
Here’s Zelador and me showing the Spanish Walk with the halter and lead line, then at liberty and finally under saddle.
Here’s Bill working with Zeloso and his Spanish Walk.
http://youtu.be/zTV8TjXzbyo
Here’s Pax (the Canadian) with his owner Ron developing …
We took this footage last weekend. Today, Ciara worked with Zelador in-hand and developed the piaffe. Of course we did NOT have a camera!…
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Last week I set three objects (a hat with zebra stripes on it, the ridged ball and a small pillow) about six feet apart from each other. Zelador was standing on a pedestal. I asked him to fetch the hat. …
Zelador was amazing today. I did the usual fetch routine on the north wall, then moved the jump to the south wall. I prepared to start from the beginning again, but he sailed over the jump and returned over the …
As far as the boys are concerned I’ve been doing stuff with them using a big blue tarp. Zeloso delights in lifting it off the ground, carrying it and swirling it. Zelador is much more sedate. He understands that I’d …
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During the winter I get a little “cabin-fever” (even though I’m outdoors for seven hours!). I’ve noticed this pattern the past few years: sometime in the mentally challenging month of February I sit down in front of the computer and …
I believe I said something incredibly nasty to the dark llama (Jackson Brown) this afternoon. Ciara went with me to do the LAST farm-sitting session (feeding and mucking out). While we were in the loft of the bank barn, throwing …
I’m babysitting a farm that has three horses, two llamas and a miniature donkey. I drop the hay from the loft into the paddock below, then I go down the stairs and through the barn to the arena which acts …
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This morning the wind was howling around the arena, but that didn’t deter Zelador and me. I turned him loose. He trotted to the northwest corner and prepared to lay down. I joined him just as he lowered his hind …