So I know my posts are normally filled with everything we accomplished and how well she has done. This is mainly because I am an optimistic person and like to focus on the better things in life, but to add some reality to this blog, I thought I'd share about our bad days.
Yesterday was one of the worse ones. I have found that when one does not understand something that is normally understood, they become quite frustrated. I know this from personal experience. It appears that my little mustang also becomes mad when confused.
So my big goal recently has been to work with the trailer. I realized I needed to establish a lot of ground work for loading into a straight load, so I started by on-line lunging her. After, I realized she would probably need to swing her butt towards me, so I started on that. It took a good solid 15 minutes on constant work and struggle to get even the slightest try. She was tired and hungry and mentally drained so that may have made things worse. Now normally, my stories would have a happy ending or super ending such as, " Then she jumped right in the trailer and was totally fine." But this one ended with one step of the hind end towards me. That is all I wanted, I got it and left it at that. Hopefully the next session will go much better! Fingers crossed!
Anyway, this blog is to remind me to keep my head up and realize everyone goes through struggles and that it is okay to be confused! My 4-H club is coming over on Friday to listen to a presentation about mustangs! Oh boy!
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