At 1:00 the rain was coming down in sheets. At 1:30 going to Terry's seemed unlikely. At 2:15 I got a call. I was definitely going to Terry's. I walked over as quickly as I could (I really want a car) and Terry had the trailer hooked up and his grandson was also present. We were going to the vet.
Now I know what you're thinking. You're wrong. It was just a coggins testing. Which the vet says is completely useless, cause there has only been two cases in the last twenty years. It's required for all horses who will be with another huge group of horses or going out of state. We loaded up Frosty, Santana, Misstack, and Strudder. Ya know I'm pretty sure I'm spelling Misstack and Strudder's names wrong, but it's how I've spelled them from the time I first met them so what's the point in changing it now.
So Frosty was a complete angel, Santana was like "this is old hat," Strudder was good, and Misstack was awful.
She was better than she was at the fair though. She didn't completely ignore my presence. I made it clear right from the beginning that she would not come into my space and that if she did she would get smacked. Hard. She wouldn't go into the vet's barn, and would back up really quickly. I did eventually get her into the barn by zigzagging across the entrance and going in at an angle. When the vet tried to get some of her blood she kept tossing her head and making it extremely hard for the vet to do anything. She then backed up the whole 40 meters out of the barn, and I just kept pressure against the halter so that she knew that she wasn't supposed to do that and went with her. We brought Santana over so that she would calm down and the vet was able to get some of her blood. After that I took her away from Santana and out of sight of the other horses, and worked her. I wanted her to stop when I stopped, not invade my space, and calm down. We went into the barn again and eventually she walked straight in. There was a platform covered in red carpet outside and I eventually got her to step on it. When she finally walked on it I led her back to the other horses. I stopped quite a bit to make sure she was watching what I was doing though. I remembered something else too. I remembered that I had once made it a requirement that Misstack stay behind me. I didn't care what she did behind me, just that she stayed there. So I reinforced that rule a little bit.
When we got home they all unloaded really nicely. Terry told us that we should have seen Frosty unload. He said that she just slowly lowered her foot until it hit the ground. He said that you could have put your foot where she would have landed, and it wouldn't have hurt because she did it so softly.
We also got on all the fillies bareback and just moved around; sideways, backwards, front, pushed ourselves off their back, moved backwards and forwards, that kind of stuff. Dash didn't buck Aleythia off, Toffy seemed more comfortable, Coffie was moving around quite a bit, and Frosty didn't care.
So was asked Britney to help us ride the fillies as I said before, and Terry also said that his other granddaughter wanted to ride the fillies too. I'm really looking forward too this summer. Talking about this summer: TWO DAYS OF SCHOOL LEFT!!!!!!
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