In which Fiddle's behavior changes, and I share some training stories
This blog has always been a recording-place where I can keep track of (among other things) ongoing training issues, setbacks and triumphs. Not a brag-sheet as much as a progress report.
Through the progress report process, though, I am able to see more clearly how much progress has been made in the never-ending process of training. Since Fiddle was such a reprobate at the beginning of our relationship, her progress is the most amazing to note!
Here's something, for example, that has become completely routine:
Fee didn't come to me with any trail-building experience. I started slowly with her, gradually adding different Implements of Destruction onto her saddle, gradually teaching her the skills she needs to be a good trail-building horse:
tolerate all types of weird tools strapped to saddle and stuffed into pack bagsallow me to mount/dismount on either side in tight quarters on iffy terraincarry flapping evil flagging ribbons clipped to mane and tack allow other horses in…
Through the progress report process, though, I am able to see more clearly how much progress has been made in the never-ending process of training. Since Fiddle was such a reprobate at the beginning of our relationship, her progress is the most amazing to note!
Here's something, for example, that has become completely routine:
Fee didn't come to me with any trail-building experience. I started slowly with her, gradually adding different Implements of Destruction onto her saddle, gradually teaching her the skills she needs to be a good trail-building horse:
tolerate all types of weird tools strapped to saddle and stuffed into pack bagsallow me to mount/dismount on either side in tight quarters on iffy terraincarry flapping evil flagging ribbons clipped to mane and tack allow other horses in…