Boggle- USA bound!

My horse is the same way. He will get into anything and go anywhere. It's cool, but irritating. On the plus side he stood at the back of my truck while I whipped out various blankets to try on him (to see what fits this year) on a very windy and cooler day. He also gave zero f*cks about a plastic bag waving around in his face.

His curiosity is annoying sometimes though 🤣 especially when you walk away for one second and suddenly a trash bin is being thrown down the aisle of the barn 🤔
 
Michen said:
I’m unconvinced having watched his very active back and all morning. And front end. He’s.. agile.
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Chip was the same. I've got video of him as a 2yr old chest hitting the ground as he stopped and span when "cutting" the tractor in the neighbouring field. I did think I would die! However there isn't a single bad bone in his body and he's always known (apart from once when I got gallus and fired myself on bareback and he had a "this feels weird" scared buck and I flew off 🤦🏼‍♀️) to keep his feet on the ground under saddle.

I'm certain Atlas will be the same 🥰
 
Indeed. Hermosa was in a buzzy mood the other day, because I gave her a a day off work (I know!) so she felt on fire while I rode her bareback in a headcollar from the barn to the field. 'Caue, yeah, we do that. But she kept a lid on it. Once I'd turned her out, she galloped across the field and threw herself around in all sorts of interesting acrobatics and airs above the ground. I said, "I'm glad you've worked out how to hold that off until an appropriate moment because there are no words for how deeply unimpressed I would have been if you'd done that whilst riding you bareback, in a headcollar. No. words."
 
Ok so the mane...
Options
.clippers...get someone to hold his head bent a little downwards and just run even hand held clippers along it BUT the trick is to have them at a bitnof an angle so you don't get the chopped look.

Option 2
Take a few inches of mane upwards and snip into the ends. Bit like sticking layers into your own hair.

Option 3
Mane extentions?
 
Sandstone1 said:
Atlas looks lovely and I am so pleased Boggle loves him. Also pleased that Boggle is doing so well at the moment. He looks great!
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Thanks, I know his movement especially in trot looks weird/off. And I'm having a vet check him over in a few weeks just for routine. I genuinely think something in his neck has maybe fused given the elimination of the pain reaction I was sometimes seeing when he itched. I don't know. I'm just keeping an eye on his demeanor, rather than trying to look to hard at how he moves/compensates. So long as he's happy doing his ridiculous acrobatics and galloping around and being Bog and his eye is soft and cheeky then I figure he's doing good.
 
Today Atlas was purposely bought in whilst the others were out and asked to tie outside for five mins whilst I groomed etc. He was totally unbothered by this! Then he went to the beach (aka the pond) where he had to stand around a bit whilst I spoke to a neighbor, and watch pepper launching herself into the water.

He did test giving me a nip when he got impatient at me talking to said neighbour, but now understands that’s not how we roll here 🤣

We had a huge herd of deer spring out of no where then scale the steep bank which he just wanted to watch. No sharp reaction at all.

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To be fair to him the fence posts are old and rotting and I am fairly sure it would have been an aggressive arse itch that did it. Not that he wouldn’t have thought that was great.
 
Michen said:
He says oh well freedom was fun while it lasted.

And Atlas has been putting his head sideways through the wooden fence to get to more grass, and then got stuck, and popped the fence post out getting unstuck.

2 more fence energizers coming your way from Amazon, boys.


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"Wot, I barely touched it' 😂
 
Nothing to report other than fence is repaired, ponies are all good and I’ve been busy booking flights and trips to Africa and Costa Rica, spurred on by the temperature dropping 🤣

Atlas did a longer loop (40 min) dog walk yesterday which he was great for but did get tired going up the hill. My plan is to do this while I can until the snow hits in a month or so, then I’ll do some leaning over him etc inside the barn and getting him perfect with the block. He can then eat and grow for the rest of winter mostly, with the odd in hand/mounting block session perhaps.


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