Hmmm...

First of all, sorry i haven't posted at all this week, i haven't had computer access until now...

Now for the horse stuff :)

First thing i did this morning was work with Sunny.  We practiced backing up, disengaging, and moving the front end over which all went fabulous, the trouble started when we started lunging. She went around a few time, then when i signaled her to pick up a faster pace (flick of the whip) she kicked out from behind, turned in and almost ran me over. This totally confused me because she had never kicked out before, and i didn't even touch her with the whip. I cautiously approached her and rubbed her all over with the whip and she was fine with it; not skittish at all, so i sent her around again.

Sunny has this nasty habit of turning in and running right past me while we were lunging and i had gotten some advice-when she doesn't listen to the "wave" of the whip near her shoulder to get her away, hit (not in a violent way) her in the shoulder. Well after i sent her around again she started to cut in so i first waved the whip at her shoulder and when she didn't respond i tapped her with it. She did pretty much the same thing as last time, also almost running me over...

After that Sunny was pretty much unmanageable, even when i stopped lunging and just lead her she was skittish and jumped at everything so i put her back in her stall....

Was it something i did or could it be she isn't used to being lunged??

Well until next time,
its just me
learning about them

<3 horse_girl