You smoke ket??

I love that you love posts about her! I love sharing her with people!

You’re welcome! Thank you as well!

Aw thank you! 😊

The dirtiest story on the planet

Lol okay. I’ll try to get a vid of her first successful bath and post it. I’m hoping that it can happen by August.

Aw thank you! With horses, the easiest and most straightforward way to desensitize them is just exposing them to their fear until they realize it’s fine. You don’t want to send them into a full blown panic, obviously.

The horses I had as a kid were afraid of tarps, so my mom would take the tarps and rub the horses with them until they stopped being afraid of them.

I plan on doing the same with Sandy and the bathing hose, but showing it to her close up before touching her body with it. She likes to examine things before she lets them touch her. She has to sniff and move her lips on each brush before I use it on her during grooming. She knows what they all are now, but she still wants to check them out when they come out of the bag.

Once she’s cool with the hose being around her and touching her while it’s off, I’ll do the same slow introduction to the hose while it’s turned on. Then start getting her used to getting sprayed off by spraying around her on the ground, then work up her body from her feet.

It’s gonna take forever, but my hope is that for just a single day, she’ll be super clean. I’m going especially slow with her and doing it in stages like this because she’s suuuuuper old and I don’t like to push her boundaries too much in one training session because of her age alone. Stressing out old things too much isn’t good for them lol.

Oh me too! I started her on a weight loss supplement a few days ago. I have also been bringing way more fruits and treats than normal. She needs all the calories she can get. It doesn’t help her any that she likes to zoom around when I let her out. Burning all those calories away because she’s so happy to just be a horse again.

Oh yes. She looked like a gray and brown paint by the time she was brought in.

Honestly she might lmao. I wanted to try to clean her up a bit before I had to go home, but the mud hadn’t dried yet. It was a little too cold for a bath, but even if it was warmer, I don’t think she’s ever gotten a proper bath before. I tried to bathe her last summer and she flipped out. My goal is to get her a bath this summer, but it’s gonna require me to desensitize her to the bathing hose over time.

She only wears her halter when she’s out of her stall. Some people take halters off their horses when they put them outside to play and move around, but I don’t just in case something happens and I need to get control of her quickly.

She can be very skittish at times, so being able to get control of her quickly is important. She’s still getting used to being outside of her stall and interacting with people and being around other horses. She was in her stall without any interaction other than feeding, watering, and stall cleaning for a very very long time before another person and I started working with her.

She’s comparable to a neglected, stray dog that is learning how to be loved by humans. She’s doing remarkably well, but still has a long way to go with some things.

Thank you! She’s going to be so much prettier once she gains some weight. ❤️

Aw thank you!

Aw thank you! I do what I can for her!

Honestly, I’d love to protest with you because Iive relatively close to the city, but I getike no PTO and can’t afford to take time off. 💀

I’m short, so his wideness can make my hips sore. He also has a very bouncy gait. He is the sweetest boi. He can get bitey sometimes, but he’ll stop if you scold him. He’s a gentle giant tbh.

I ride a Belgian cross a lot and he is really wide and not the comfiest to ride. He also isn’t that fast, so he’d do poorly in competitions.

She rushed over to me when I showed up today and immediately demanded head pets and attention.

Happy to see PA is on this list as well. Maybe my state isn’t as fucked as it seems?

It’s prolly the drugs keeping him awake