Post by Rachel&Sully on Sept 22, 2011 13:23:45 GMT
Hi
With winter looming I thought last night I'd introduce Sully to the sand school flood lights.... thankfully, I had decided to do this on the ground :-)
He was not good at all, I'd say terrified! I tried to get him calm but spent the entire time just walking him around and asking him to stand without running into my space. Not easy. He turned into a huge, snorting, baby!
I took him back in there today and initially I didn't think I would get him in there (despite it being broad daylight with no lights on).
I know the way to tackle this is using parelli techniques, but my lack of experience is not helping. My very first parelli lesson I was told not to look at him when leading him, that was impossible last night as I felt the need to keep looking at him to see if he was going to knock my flying, ha ha!
Right at the end I got him to stand calmly and he actually licked his lips, which I took as a sign of him starting to relax... but then when it came to walking on again and leaving the school he started with all the snorting etc again.
Any advise? Should I try again really soon or should I give him a little while to recover and then try again? Any tips of things to try would be much appreciated!
Thanks
With winter looming I thought last night I'd introduce Sully to the sand school flood lights.... thankfully, I had decided to do this on the ground :-)
He was not good at all, I'd say terrified! I tried to get him calm but spent the entire time just walking him around and asking him to stand without running into my space. Not easy. He turned into a huge, snorting, baby!
I took him back in there today and initially I didn't think I would get him in there (despite it being broad daylight with no lights on).
I know the way to tackle this is using parelli techniques, but my lack of experience is not helping. My very first parelli lesson I was told not to look at him when leading him, that was impossible last night as I felt the need to keep looking at him to see if he was going to knock my flying, ha ha!
Right at the end I got him to stand calmly and he actually licked his lips, which I took as a sign of him starting to relax... but then when it came to walking on again and leaving the school he started with all the snorting etc again.
Any advise? Should I try again really soon or should I give him a little while to recover and then try again? Any tips of things to try would be much appreciated!
Thanks
