tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post8599700523114955940..comments2024-01-03T03:28:48.980-07:00Comments on mugwump Chronicles: Know Your HorseMugwumphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01487540636265322556noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-24534175772317341292014-11-28T09:47:40.013-07:002014-11-28T09:47:40.013-07:00arrogant - why would a horse EVER want to think/pr...arrogant - why would a horse EVER want to think/process like a human?<br />Lazy - My horse is a jerk. The fact that I only ride him at barrel races has nothing to do with his misbehavior.<br />self-indulgent: My horse needs to let me play with his lips because I want to. The fact that he has repeatedly lets me know how much he hates it means nothing.<br />mugwumphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00319060800328355056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-7340455907138312792014-11-28T09:34:38.669-07:002014-11-28T09:34:38.669-07:00Oh, anonymous, I talk to my horse all the time! U...Oh, anonymous, I talk to my horse all the time! Unfortunately, her only response in the conversations seems to be "feed me [more]."EvenSonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02032555334605790413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-2999391671048387402014-11-28T07:52:09.495-07:002014-11-28T07:52:09.495-07:00This post could not have come at a better time. I&...This post could not have come at a better time. I've been having lessons for 6 weeks now on my horse. On the 4th lesson he was hot after a good session and dropped to roll in the sand. It's nice stuff after all and these lessons are the first he's ever seen of the stuff. I get off quickly so as not to be a pancake and very quickly get him up and me back on board. Week 5 and he does it again, this time at the start of the ride. It's not so amusing now to me but walking is apparently boring and that sand looks damn good. Up he gets and on we go. Week 6 and he's wound himself up into a sweaty, lathery mess. Like your madonna, he HATES being all sweaty and itchy. The rest of the lesson is spent constantly on the move at the threat of a roll. Even at a trot there were instances that he felt like he was about to buckle and roll. We made him stand for the gate to be opened and he thought about it. Made him stand on the concrete yard for a last minute review of the lesson from my instructor and he threatened again. I knew he was uncomfortable. He's generally a very impatient horse. But in one moment he'd learned exactly what to do, to make ME do what HE wanted. I wonder sometimes about who exactly is training who.Embodied Spirithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12973117112038568617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-73826239793211074032014-11-28T07:30:48.593-07:002014-11-28T07:30:48.593-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.For What It's Worthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06118428721627431667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-46096468582318398972014-11-28T05:27:57.050-07:002014-11-28T05:27:57.050-07:00I was out on the farm, bringing in sheep, and I ha...I was out on the farm, bringing in sheep, and I had put my friend on a very very quiet and dependable young mare. For some reason I had gone over the hill about one km away and she was riding out to meet me. I saw her across the paddock and she was on foot leading the horse. I had a good, and very accurate guess as to why my friend had got off this nice mare. <br /><br />When she came closer my friend called out “ I think there is something wrong with your horse!”<br /><br />“She needs to stop and go to the toilet all the time?” said I.<br /><br />“Yes” said my friend. “She is stopping and standing funny but then does not pee. Perhaps she has a bad back?”<br /><br />“She has you trained pretty quick” says I.<br /><br />It is definitely my fault the mare learned that one, but I do find it tough to punish her too much for that trick since she does actually need to go quite often and she is not shown, but just works around the farm so it does not matter. She is not a strong horse and does it more when tired.Ozhorsehttp://baroonga.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-67305468694010745412014-11-28T05:24:09.075-07:002014-11-28T05:24:09.075-07:00I had an over-shown gelding who could get visiting...I had an over-shown gelding who could get visiting international clinicians to tell me to go tie him to the horse trailer and feed him hay. <br /><br />Once, years before, at a show I had decided to put him in some English classes and plaited up his mane for the first time. This felt odd to him so he stretched, and stretched and stretched and leaned back until his belly almost hit the ground and generally carried on. I must have taken him back to the trailer too soon. <br /><br />When in later years he would get annoyed at being sat on at clinics or got tired of waiting around at shows he would start stretching to almost touch the ground and standing odd and sprawled out, in the same way he had when he had the plaited mane incident. He fooled people. A clinic trainer thought he might have a bad back and said I should take him back to the trailer, other people would do the same. Because people noticed, I really could not use him as a couch at a clinic or show any more.<br /><br />I went to great lengths many times to make sure it was not pain. He could be magically cured by being ridden somewhere he wanted to go. Take this straddle legged drooping lipped old jade out of the western arena and into the fox hunt field and I had a powerpacked, responsive, light, high-jumping supercharger. He hated western pleasure which is what he had originally been trained for before I got him but loved to jump and would suck in onto fences and go over anything I was brave enough to neckrein him at – not that I could jump or he ever got any training at it, he just did it.<br /><br />I am pretty sure it was the mane plaiting incident that set it off as he used to same movements he did that earlier occasion and those movements were so odd.<br /><br />He was a great old horse and extremely versatile but I became aware over the years that he was a very subtle and skillful human trainer – that old horse trained back without people realizing it. <br />Ozhorsehttp://baroonga.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-52010364433264374302014-11-27T21:18:38.308-07:002014-11-27T21:18:38.308-07:00Love, love, love the last paragraph in your post!!...Love, love, love the last paragraph in your post!!! Would make a great T-shirt or meme :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-88552870155085757492014-11-27T14:23:36.107-07:002014-11-27T14:23:36.107-07:00Evensong, I must frustrate you too, I have convers...Evensong, I must frustrate you too, I have conversations with my horse every day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-77772033694669942132014-11-27T10:43:42.522-07:002014-11-27T10:43:42.522-07:00redhorse -- Only one?redhorse -- Only one?mugwumphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00319060800328355056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-42106296571821383522014-11-27T09:46:27.877-07:002014-11-27T09:46:27.877-07:00I know they don't plot against us, I know they...I know they don't plot against us, I know they aren't human, but why do I always have at least one horse in the barn who seems to stay awake at night plotting and plotting?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-50505304648529524032014-11-27T08:21:12.913-07:002014-11-27T08:21:12.913-07:00Happy Thanksgiving, Mugs! Thanks for hanging arou...Happy Thanksgiving, Mugs! Thanks for hanging around and still posting!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-1443920034747327662014-11-26T18:44:50.797-07:002014-11-26T18:44:50.797-07:00This brought me back to a hot day in July a couple...This brought me back to a hot day in July a couple years ago. We play polocrosse, and I'd put months of conditioning into my mare, but the combo of a couple rainy weeks before the tournament with a heat stroke during it was awful. During our last game I asked for more rest time at halftime because she was so tired I could see her eyes glaze (I was not granted this extra rest time) - they ended up starting the second half without me and I didn't regret it one bit. I think it's important to know your horse so you know the difference between "tired but can work through it" and "my horse needs a break, back off".Ellienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-88534846546661037942014-11-26T17:02:40.610-07:002014-11-26T17:02:40.610-07:00Gail...http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/redd+peppy+...Gail...http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/redd+peppy+sonitamugwumphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00319060800328355056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-59453229688463082762014-11-26T16:27:09.834-07:002014-11-26T16:27:09.834-07:00Anthropomorphizing. :-)Anthropomorphizing. :-)Heatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17892175707655378999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-74932499586482076952014-11-26T15:13:59.769-07:002014-11-26T15:13:59.769-07:00was reading thru and wondered, how was Sonata, bre...was reading thru and wondered, how was Sonata, bred? Had an Otoes Kandy mare who would cut for fun, (don't leave her in the pasture with cows...not good for the cows)<br /> Thanks.......Gailnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380534023229200743.post-58066307720906642592014-11-26T12:34:42.568-07:002014-11-26T12:34:42.568-07:00"anthropomorphizing"
You're welcome...."anthropomorphizing"<br />You're welcome.<br /><br />I get really frustrated with my friend who "talks" with her horses. And don't get me started on her "animal communicator!"EvenSonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02032555334605790413noreply@blogger.com