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so in my feedshed when i arrived at the horses today were two big, blue, plastic 44gallon drums. Yay.
Evidence of much naughtiness when i went out to beej's paddock. broken gate, patched up with my leadrope! Karen informed me that my pony let himself out of his paddock on wednesday night, then Guinness joined him. ponies were caught and locked up on THursday, then MUCH naughtiness ensued, with both beej (and guinness, who did it more, apparently) breaking out, throughout the day, to wreak havoc on Paul and his patience.
so yeah.
felt a LITTLE guilty about that... but then - white electrical tape with NO electrical charge is really just there for display. wait, it LOOKS like a fence but is really, not a fence.
anywho.
had a very pleasant evening doing a little parelli - circle game. then just hung out in the arena, some mutual grooming (aw!), scratching, massage & stretching. eventually got to his tail. scratched it, pulled it out. lifted it up over his back and then he did the funniest thing - i had no IDEA what was going on and my initial thought was that he was giving me a pain response to the pressure on his tail - he *squatted* as if he were about to urinate!!!!
i was standing there holding the tail, thinking "OMG I HAVE BROKEN SOMETHING!!!" and he turns around to look at me, and he totally has a blissed out look on his face!!! i drop the tail, and he takes a while to come off his back toes (you know how geldings stand when they wee?)!! i was semi-panicking! he just turned around to look at me again! i held his tail again and did similar things, but this time he was totally normal.
any ideas?
my initial reaction was that maybe i accidentally (of course!!!) put pressure on something inside him like the prostate??? i did check to see if he was "entirely" relaxed, but didn't see that!
heh.
actually, after tonight, i felt that we 'had a talk'. bit of reading and reflecting on stuff that glenatron and penella22 had to say about internalised/introvert horses.
anyway.
...
ugh, reports to write this week. i am a lazy ass and did NONE this week. i will DIE between now and 4pm next friday. yikes!
Evidence of much naughtiness when i went out to beej's paddock. broken gate, patched up with my leadrope! Karen informed me that my pony let himself out of his paddock on wednesday night, then Guinness joined him. ponies were caught and locked up on THursday, then MUCH naughtiness ensued, with both beej (and guinness, who did it more, apparently) breaking out, throughout the day, to wreak havoc on Paul and his patience.
so yeah.
felt a LITTLE guilty about that... but then - white electrical tape with NO electrical charge is really just there for display. wait, it LOOKS like a fence but is really, not a fence.
anywho.
had a very pleasant evening doing a little parelli - circle game. then just hung out in the arena, some mutual grooming (aw!), scratching, massage & stretching. eventually got to his tail. scratched it, pulled it out. lifted it up over his back and then he did the funniest thing - i had no IDEA what was going on and my initial thought was that he was giving me a pain response to the pressure on his tail - he *squatted* as if he were about to urinate!!!!
i was standing there holding the tail, thinking "OMG I HAVE BROKEN SOMETHING!!!" and he turns around to look at me, and he totally has a blissed out look on his face!!! i drop the tail, and he takes a while to come off his back toes (you know how geldings stand when they wee?)!! i was semi-panicking! he just turned around to look at me again! i held his tail again and did similar things, but this time he was totally normal.
any ideas?
my initial reaction was that maybe i accidentally (of course!!!) put pressure on something inside him like the prostate??? i did check to see if he was "entirely" relaxed, but didn't see that!
heh.
actually, after tonight, i felt that we 'had a talk'. bit of reading and reflecting on stuff that glenatron and penella22 had to say about internalised/introvert horses.
anyway.
...
ugh, reports to write this week. i am a lazy ass and did NONE this week. i will DIE between now and 4pm next friday. yikes!