BBs
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As you will know a month or so ago, snoopy wasnt himself, due to a serious infection on his back. This in turn turned him into the devil pony.
Since hes been given the all clear, he has occasionally thrown in the odd nap and rear but not to the extent it had got to.
Its been getting less frequent for the past 2 wks now, i have been able to go to the arena for a week (from the mounting block 5 mtres) without any rearing and spinning round, but venturing out up the road has been a battle.
He did manage to get out of the village last week, but that wasnt without a battle for 5/10 minutes where he just refused to move and would stand up on his hind legs in the middle of the road with cars squeezing past.
Anyway, this evening i hopped on in hope we may get a little further or at least made a point.
We get out of the yard, next to my car, the sod stands right up, and i mean right up, so i introduce him to Mr Whippy, as by know i really cant be arsed with this behaviour. It turns around facing the correct way and away he went. Up to the top of the drive and we snacked and tried to whip round but another little tap and that was it. He insisted on trotting up the main road, and im not a fan of trotting on any roads, but figured it was going forward and so didnt want to put him off.
We reach the mouth of the park, and we hopped up onto the bank off the road, and over the little ditch, snoop was like *great xc* so away we went, walked along a bit and then found a nice grass cut verge and we cantered along there for a bit.
Snoopy was loving this, all the snaking and backward thinking went out of his mind and was really having fun.
I turned around at the top and cantered back along the verge, hes very responsive and wouldnt dream to pull.
We walked quietly home
HOORAH! my pony has regained his Girlie Swot status!
After that took Big Winston out for a similar ride, but over the farm, numb nuts thought walking across wide open spaced field was far too exciting and proceeded to buck and squeal
So BBs is very pleased... i really didnt know if i would get that little bugger out on his own, but we've done it
Thanks for reading.
Since hes been given the all clear, he has occasionally thrown in the odd nap and rear but not to the extent it had got to.
Its been getting less frequent for the past 2 wks now, i have been able to go to the arena for a week (from the mounting block 5 mtres) without any rearing and spinning round, but venturing out up the road has been a battle.
He did manage to get out of the village last week, but that wasnt without a battle for 5/10 minutes where he just refused to move and would stand up on his hind legs in the middle of the road with cars squeezing past.
Anyway, this evening i hopped on in hope we may get a little further or at least made a point.
We get out of the yard, next to my car, the sod stands right up, and i mean right up, so i introduce him to Mr Whippy, as by know i really cant be arsed with this behaviour. It turns around facing the correct way and away he went. Up to the top of the drive and we snacked and tried to whip round but another little tap and that was it. He insisted on trotting up the main road, and im not a fan of trotting on any roads, but figured it was going forward and so didnt want to put him off.
We reach the mouth of the park, and we hopped up onto the bank off the road, and over the little ditch, snoop was like *great xc* so away we went, walked along a bit and then found a nice grass cut verge and we cantered along there for a bit.
Snoopy was loving this, all the snaking and backward thinking went out of his mind and was really having fun.
I turned around at the top and cantered back along the verge, hes very responsive and wouldnt dream to pull.
We walked quietly home
HOORAH! my pony has regained his Girlie Swot status!
After that took Big Winston out for a similar ride, but over the farm, numb nuts thought walking across wide open spaced field was far too exciting and proceeded to buck and squeal
So BBs is very pleased... i really didnt know if i would get that little bugger out on his own, but we've done it
Thanks for reading.
