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This blog shows my ups and downs of my journey through Parelli Natural Horsemanship. I love studying Parelli and believe that it truly is way more than riding, all about the relationship, and it's the ultimate way to train your horse. It gives me a way to be with my horse naturally and to understand his language. I try to blog about every session I have with my horse so that I can learn from them, and I hope you enjoy it!

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Hmmmm...how interesting

It's been about 3 days I guess since I've played with Tug. I just haven't had time, and I thought that a few days of UDT would do us good. Well, I really haven't even done that. :( So tonight after he ate I decided to take him out to eat in the ditch. The pasture is about gone, and the ditch is just as green as it could be. Anyways we yo-yoed through the gate, and I tried to see if I could get him to stop by lifting the rope, and then sending him back. He seemed to get that, so we headed to the ditch. I didn't have my carrot stick, so I tried driving him by just pointing forward. That worked, but he had his ears back the whole time. I don't know if he was just determined to get there, or if he was just being dominate. So then I spent a minute on stopping, and going forward to see if that changed his attitude. It didn't so I tried to drive him at the trot. Again, ears back. Then we did some sideways. No carrot stick! Man he's getting fancy. :P When we got to the ditch, I played, "Follow me to the best grass!" This is hard to do with dry grass, but towards the end he started following without feeling pressure on the halter! As we walked back to the barn, he never backed his ears once.

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