Taking it easy
So having decided to drop the agenda for Staro and go back to taking him out for in-hand strolls I have to say this evening he was a much calmer pony. He was a bit daft yesterday, and still gets a bit overexcited when other horses start calling to him - he seems to feel duty-bound to answer them and think about prancing over the top of me in the process - but mostly he was much, much better. Basically I just got on with walking and didn'd ask him to do a thing except not walk over me, and not pull me about. Like walking a big golden dog....
Dunno if it's my change of attitude, or the fact that I've started adding magnesium to his feed again, or that he's been walked down there a few times now and is starting to settle in, or a little bit of all of the above. But whatever the reason, it feels once more like we're headed in the right direction.
On the advice of a friend I've also ordered some agnus castus, which is supposed to help calm those raging hormones. So I'll see what that does, too. I feel that if I can just do enough to get him concentrating on ME most of the time instead of anything and everything else; then I might just have a chance of getting some training into him.
Fingers crossed, eh?
Dunno if it's my change of attitude, or the fact that I've started adding magnesium to his feed again, or that he's been walked down there a few times now and is starting to settle in, or a little bit of all of the above. But whatever the reason, it feels once more like we're headed in the right direction.
On the advice of a friend I've also ordered some agnus castus, which is supposed to help calm those raging hormones. So I'll see what that does, too. I feel that if I can just do enough to get him concentrating on ME most of the time instead of anything and everything else; then I might just have a chance of getting some training into him.
Fingers crossed, eh?