Today Nalle and I went to the dentist so check his teeth out, they're doing fine but there's still abit to fix. Hopefully alot will happen during the summer when he can eat grass, that dont get stuck between the teeth and they can move to their correct place.
When we were loading to go there it was raining and we havent done as much trailerloading lately as we should have so he wasnt as calm in the trailer as he use to, since we didnt have alot of time to fix that before the dentist and he wasnt too worried I loaded him and spent that time trailerloading on our way home. At first he didnt want to load, he was still abit gone from all the drugs..., but since we've spent so much time training I've got confidence from knowing what to do, when to do it and how. That makes is alot easier to be that alpha that dont loose it.
After a while Nalle got it and the same second that he walked in to the trailer he relaxed and rested one of his legs, then I could close the gate without him getting worried or turning (he always travel "at liberty"). Hopefully we took one step closer to being where we were when we had to stop trailerload because the snow came... We also have to get past last weeks incident when he got stuck with the halter in the trailer, now he dont want to stick his head to far into the trailer, at least not with a halter on.
When we got back I let him out into the pasture again, I've got vacation for two weeks so I've got alot of time that makes it possible for me to ride when the tempature drops or between the rain.
So I waited until the evening, then we had a nice playtime doing online, freestyle and a little bit of the fancy stuff ;)
Nalle did a few nice flying lead changes at online, I asked him to back up and then move out in circling game at canter. That gives him alot of energy and the flyings lead changes comes easier for him.
When we rode we did some bending and moving different parts of the body at walk and then we played with the walk to canter transitions, he's doing them great but starts to canter at a fast pace.
After a little while he offered me a nice collected (mentally, emotionally) canter and we were done.
We went for a nice walk around the pastures together with a friend and her horse,
but that nice walk changed to something else when we were passing the stallion who's missing his ladies... Both horses reacted strong, Nalle got up on two legs so I did an emergency dismount and then we turned and walked another way, after that they calmed down pretty fast and we could continue the nice walk at the sunset...
When we got back to the paddock we did some stretching on the horses, that's good for Nalle not just because of the stretching but also because he used to have problems with people lifting and doing things with (to) his hindlegs. That goes alot smoother now, but I still want to put energy on that and do things that he could enjoy, like stretching. Suddently the other horse started to act differently, it took us humans abit longer to see that the sprinklesystem was running and it came water from one of them.
Since Nalle doesnt love water I went to check it out with him, but he didnt bother at all so I let him back in the pasture and said good night. Perhaps all the other drama was enough for one day ;)
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