Summer time is not all it's cracked up to be.....

I got a post from a fellow blogger bud.... she asked how it was going on my training. Unfortunately not too far! I thought I was going to be able to really get a jump on things but My oldest daughter got picked for her All Star Softball league! Now I will be driving all over getting her to practice 45 minutes away for 2-3 days a week for two hours at a time! Thank Goodness it's only for 1 month! I am very proud of this don't get me wrong, but it sure cuts into precious time after my full time job and her percosious little sister; they sure don't cut me any slack.

Doodlebug's team got third and only four girls on her team got picked for all Stars!

I will say this though; we had our latest round of treating cuts and scrapes! Who'd have thought aerosol cans were the devil! No matter how much I think I'm not getting done there is always something to learn! I had never considered the fact that we have not had to introduce her to Cut-N-Heal! She decided to stand up for herself and fight for her stall! Got cornered and banged up her nose. All she got for the effort was a bite on the neck! of course that ripped some hide off too, so it was doctoring time! Thinking nothing of the fact that she has never had to be doctored before and that I have just gotten so used to her taking so well to everything; I just reached in the tack room door, grabbed the can, shook it (mind you she is standing still and just looking at me, not flinching even at the shake of the can) and sprayed. Her neck was the easiest to get so that's where I started. You would have thought I had hit her with a Hot branding iron! She jumped so quick it took me by complete surprise! That's when I realised we had never done anything like this before!!!!! DUH MOM!



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I figured the best way to learn is by doing. I got a good hold of her rope and grasped her nose...(the only spot left to doctor) and *pppssstttt*! There was a jerking of the head but no bolting... I chock that up to success. I know it's a little nervy to have a blast on your face, cold at that, so I let it go. We did ok to my way of thinking! No snorts or trying to kill Mom holding the demon can.

Any Help is Appreciated...

O.K.
Now that the rain is supposed to slack off for a while, my new romance is settling in quite nicely, and the kids will soon be done with school and all the extra activities that go with that (the only thing left is Fair in the beginning of June) so; it's time for me to start getting serious about putting some hours on Little Bit!
I have neglected her for quite a while now. We still have our feet sessions, typical everyday grooming and general social lessons (i.e. leading, space and touch) we even moved on to noises! She is not spooky of a whole lot....just one thing is fatally threatening her life.... the dreaded PLASTIC BAG!!!! I swear she actually attacks them. The mistake was made late last year when we were going to place new shavings in her stall while she was eating. The bag was put in and she proceeded to paw, well rear up and attack, the bag. I have NO idea what brought it on. She has seen us put these same bags in other stalls all around her and the other horses reactions to them (none). She is mortally afraid of anything plastic. I have no idea what was done to her before She was adopted by me from the BLM, but I would be loathe to think anything untoward would have happened. Maybe a bag was caught on the trailer transporting her, maybe some little kid thought it would be funny to shake a palstic bag at the group of yearlings she was in to get some kind of reaction; I honestly have no idea. I do know, however, I do not want to be on her when one blows by or someone walks up to her carrying one.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated in this area. We, my Mother and I, have been trying to "sack her out" (rubbing her with one, placing it on her stall while eating and even tucking it in my back pocket while leading her) but to no avail. She still will not stand still nor let us get close enough for any length of time for her to see it's not going to eat her! We dance all over the pasture for about 10 or 15 mins. before she will let me touch her shoulder with it and even then it's very grudgingly done. She stands shaking like a leaf and keeps a wary eye on not only the bag but me. I fear it my jeopardize Our relationship as far as her trust in me goes.

Her ground work will begin anew in about another week and I am hoping this will be the toughest hurdle we have to face. I have set my goal high and want to be riding her by the end of the summer this year.

The hair subject....

Not quite on the subject of Little Bit; but her unofficial "Little Sister" decided to give herself a nice little hair cut this past Saturday.

She managed to chop off most of her bangs and the entire right side in the back of her head!!! I thought I was going to die! All I could think was "What am I going to do with her hair now for her dance recital?!?!?!?!"

Thank goodness we found a bueatician that could do something with the botched up head of hair...sorry but I am absolutely challenged when it comes to cutting hair! The end result:

It turned into a cute little bob! I am still fuming over the lobbed off tresses! She finally got enough to pull back into a pony tail and this is what she does...

Oh; By the way: SHE HATES IT!

Just Getting Started

This is so totally new to me! I have no idea where to start!! I created this for my new little Mustang filly adopted 2 years ago as a yearling. She is now 3 this summer and I wanted a spot to post our activities and share ideas on training and any issues we come up against. I got this idea from another of my favorite blogs. FHOTD!!! I Love that site! She has just started another for her 3 year old TB and I thought it would be a grand idea to join in in the blogger world!