nootka
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Or so it seems.
This past week I have been getting three horses ready to go to the Schooling Show. Now since it's just me here w/the two little boys, I have to plan my time carefully and expedite. That has meant no baths, rough clips out of their winter coats and one at a time. I started with the foal, and then the yearling, and all the while, once I got those clippers out, I think Mouse thought I was forgetting about him.
He has been crabbing about and sulking until today when I took the clippers to him. He was pretty good about everything and I got him done in one and a half hours (I still need to clip his muzzle and over his eyes and boy it's raggedy, but he's out of his winter coat!).
Now he is so pleased. He pirouettes in his stall waiting for his dinner and his blanket, and I can practically hear him begging me to finish him up w/some "product" for his coat but he needs a bath, first.
*LOL* I had forgotten how much he seems to enjoy showing. He just lights up and gets more animated.
I think what he loves about it is all the extra attention and the admiration as well as the interaction. I hope his little brother Kyan loves it as much.
Does anyone else out here have a horse that just loves to go to shows?
Liz M.
This past week I have been getting three horses ready to go to the Schooling Show. Now since it's just me here w/the two little boys, I have to plan my time carefully and expedite. That has meant no baths, rough clips out of their winter coats and one at a time. I started with the foal, and then the yearling, and all the while, once I got those clippers out, I think Mouse thought I was forgetting about him.
He has been crabbing about and sulking until today when I took the clippers to him. He was pretty good about everything and I got him done in one and a half hours (I still need to clip his muzzle and over his eyes and boy it's raggedy, but he's out of his winter coat!).
Now he is so pleased. He pirouettes in his stall waiting for his dinner and his blanket, and I can practically hear him begging me to finish him up w/some "product" for his coat but he needs a bath, first.
*LOL* I had forgotten how much he seems to enjoy showing. He just lights up and gets more animated.
I think what he loves about it is all the extra attention and the admiration as well as the interaction. I hope his little brother Kyan loves it as much.
Does anyone else out here have a horse that just loves to go to shows?
Liz M.